Praying in the perfect will of God pt.1

Messages for August 2017: Our Month of Divine Opportunities

Message for Sunday 13^th of August, 2017

Theme: Positioning for Divine Opportunities

Topic: Praying in the perfect will of God pt.1

Introduction: “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” Rm.8:26

While looking at the word of the Lord for the month, we saw from most of our examples that divine opportunities were made to happen as people prayed to God persistently. For instance, in the parable of prayer Jesus taught about in Lk.18, He said that the elect who pray to God day and night would have God answer them speedily even though he bears long with them as they persist in prayer in spite of resisting circumstances. We therefore understand from here that the circumstances that resist us are usually dislodged if we persist in prayer to God and we eventually get to stand in our dreams as ordained by God. Consequently, every of those circumstances would be working for our good eventually. See Rm.8:28 and Gen.50:20.  

For us to get into praying the perfect will of God we must understand that only the Spirit of God can tell us what the mind of God really is because He is the author of the word of God. As we let Him lead us, He will lead us into all of the mind of God regarding our destinies and cause us to walk in the ways of God to the point that our all will sync with God’s plans and purpose for our lives. The means by which he does this is getting us to pray in the Holy Spirit. To enable us to do this, He has sent Jesus Christ to baptize us with the Holy Spirit. Therefore, when we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, the Holy Spirit will make intercession for us and we will always pray in the perfect will of God thereby because when the Holy Spirit enables us to pray, we are only going to pray the perfect will of God.

Praying the perfect will of God is praying in the Holy Spirit: When God was to defeat man’s effort to ruin His plan for humanity in Gen.11:1-9, He changed their tongues by causing them to speak different languages thereby breaking their agreement so as to get them to spread around the world in accordance with His purpose in Gen.1:28. The question is what did the tongue have to do with the fulfillment of God’s purpose for man? I believe it has everything to do with it. The speech center is the control center of a person’s life. We see this in the book of Jas.3, Mk.11:23 and Rm.10:8-11 among other scriptures. Also, studies in science have shown that they control the life of a person. The tongue is the means by which we speak to God and speak the mind of God. This makes prayer the most powerful thing we can do.

Prayer is the place man comes into agreement with God for anything on earth: In Gen.1:28 where God blessed man and declared His dominion, He also declared the ambit of His influence there when He said what man was to dominate. The sphere of the influence of the man and woman did not include each other. Every man is expected to be able to have power with God. Sadly, the fall brought man the woe of attempting to rule beyond the ambit of his influence and the result is the chaos we see in the world today. To help us understand prayer that would deliver, let us therefore note the following points:

1.     Man was god of this world until he lost his place to the theft of Satan by disobedience to God. Gen.1:26; Lk.4:5-8 and 2Cor.4:4.

2.     Since the creation of man on earth, God gave man authority on earth so that only his voice would be heard by God on behalf of the earth. See Ps.115:16 and Mt.18:18.

3.     The means by which man’s voice can be communicated to God and every spirit and everything on earth, is speech. This is why we can believe with our hearts but can only possess that which pertain to us by speech. See Rm.10:9-10; Mk.11:23; Jas.3.

4.     When God wanted to change man’s status so that he could be restored to his place with God, He changed man’s speech by blessing him with a new tongue by the Holy Spirit. This is why on the day of Pentecost and every time people received the Holy Spirit, they received a new prayer language to match. See Acts 2:1-4; 10:44-46; 19:1-6.  

What happens when we pray?

Prayer grants us access to the presence of God as we approach Him in gratitude first. When we are thankful, it is the beginning of prayer. This is why it is always our first prayer point when we pray petition prayers. See Ps.100:4 – on the contrary, unthankfulness is viewed by God as rebellion. This is why it is going to be the habit of the rebellious in the latter days as shown us in the word of God in 2Tim.3:2 where we are told that men shall be unthankful among many things in the last days.

When we pray:

1.     We honor God on earth as He is honored in heaven. Mt.6:10.

2.     We permit God to be able to do things on earth as He does in heaven. See Ps.115:16

3.     We display the judgment of the prince of this world. Jn.16:7-11

4.     We stop the operations of the kingdom of darkness – Mt.18:18

5.     We get to discover God’s plan for the earth. In the place of prayer, we receive the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God. This enables us to know what God’s plans are and what to do for their fulfillment. Dan.9; Job 22:27-28 and Mt.7:7-8.

6.     We enforce the plans and purposes of God for our lives and the earth. Dan.9:1-27.

We shall stop here for today for want of time and space. Next week, we shall continue by looking at the second part of this message: Praying in the perfect will of God. Meanwhile, there is someone reading this resource now who is yet to become a part of God’s family. Without becoming one of God’s own, we have no access to this great opportunity tool called prayer. But I have good news for you. You can belong right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and God will admit you into His family:

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.

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