PRAYER PROBLEM OF BELIEVERS!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

THURSDAY JUNE 24, 2021.

SUBJECT : PRAYER PROBLEM OF BELIEVERS!

Memory verse: "Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them." (Mark 11 vs 24.)

READ: Mark 11 vs 22 - 23; John 15 vs 7; 16 vs 23 - 24: 

Mark 11:22: So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.

11:23: For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.

John 15:7: If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.

16:23: And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. 

16:24: Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

INTIMATION: 

Why do many people have a prayer problem? The problem of not being able to pray, not praying in the right words, not receiving answers to their prayers etc. They are always running around looking for who to pray for them. The Prayer Problem is a problem of faith. What is faith then? Faith is believe in God and His Word. It is also loyalty or fidelity of God to His promise. Therefore, faith bothers on the integrity of the Word, and of the ability of God to stand back of His promises or the statement of fact in His Word.

There is another side to the problem: It is the ability of the believer to stand in the Father's presence without the sense of guilt, condemnation or inferiority. The real question here is, "Have I a right to stand in the Father's presence and make my petitions known to Him without condemnation?" Here are few things that every believer should know:

1. Believers are actually New Creations, created in Christ Jesus (Second Corinthians 5 vs 17). We are recreated in Christ as entirely new creations with everything about us spiritually new. One is new in Christ, not only because he or she has been cleansed of sins, but also because of his or her perspective of life after obedience to the gospel. Since Christians have become new creatures in Christ, they consider all things from a new perspective.

2. As a new creation, you have received into your spirit the life and nature of God. The old things have passed away. These old things are spiritual death, your union with Satan, and your old sins—the sins committed while he was spiritually dead, and in union with the Adversary. The new creation is the product of God. It is created in Christ Jesus, it is born from above. It is born of the Holy Spirit, through the Word. And the new thing stands uncondemned and reconciled before the Father.

The moment that we become new creations, we become the righteousness of God (Second Corinthians 5 vs 21). This is because we have been justified and made righteous as if we have never sinned before. The righteousness of God means the ability to stand in the Father's presence without sense of guilt, condemnation or inferiority. We are from that moment sons and daughters of God.

It would be an abnormal thing if He should recreate us, impart to us His own nature, and leave us under the blighting curse of condemnation, unable to stand in His presence because of being overwhelmed with the  sense of guilt and inferiority. But we know we have the ability to stand in God's presence free from all sense of unworthiness.

3. We know for a fact that we have a legal right in the Father's presence because we are legally born into His family, and He has legally adopted us and accepted us as His children. "The Holy Spirit Himself has born witness with our spirits that we are the children of God." (Romans 8 vs 16).

4. We know another fact, that we have a legal right to the use of Jesus' Name and whatsoever we ask of the Father in that name He'll grant us. (John 15 vs 16; 16 vs 23 & 24). This has cleared up every issue in regard to our ability to stand before Him in the throne room without condemnation.

It is now obvious that fellowshipping with God in prayers is based on legal grounds, based on statement of facts, and not based on promises. All things belong to the believer. It is only a problem of our taking our place, enjoying our rights: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ" (Ephesians 1 vs 3).

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You so much for all our inheritance of the believers in the finished work of Christ. Engrace me with the enablement to take my place and enjoy my rights, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAIAE THE LORD!