Praying the WILL of GOD

One thing that fascinates me concerning the subject of prayer is how multi-facetted the topic is, but yet the Lord has designed it to be so simple that a little child is able to pray. Honestly, it is not as deep as many intercessors make it to be. Yes, the Lord moves in many different ways and it is extremely important that we flow with Him in prayer, but it's not a complicated formula. It is simply submitting your heart and emotions to Him that he may use you to pray as He feels. In order to stay in the flow of the Lord's Spirit in prayer, all you must do is to keep your attention on God and not yourself in your prayer time. Pray with one purpose and that is to be a vessel the Lord is able to use to legislate his agenda on the earth. Jesus Christ came to earth not preaching of Himself but about the kingdom of Heaven. His assignment was to establish the kingdom of heaven on the earth. The way the kingdom is advanced is by the people who have the kingdom within them. According to Luke 17:21, the kingdom of God is within us. 

Since the kingdom of God is within us, we must always be mindful of the king’s agenda for the earth and make sure that we are living and praying accordingly. There are things that the king is decreeing concerning the earth and it is up to the people of God to hear and see where their assignment lies according to that declaration. The God we serve is a sovereign God and He does not operate against his own sovereignty. In Hebrews 2:5-9 we are taught that through Christ Jesus we have dominion over the earth. We also see in Genesis 1:26 that when God created man, He gave man dominion over the earth realm. Whenever the Lord desires to do something on the earth, he uses a man to institute it. In every scriptural example of the Lord's will being done on the earth, God appears to the individual with his agenda and the individual gives the Lord their consent and then the miraculous occurs. The best example I can think of is when the Lord promised Mary, the mother of Jesus, that she was going to conceive the Christ. The Angel appeared to her, gave her the message from the Lord and Mary said “be it unto me”. Mary became a womb of what would change the face of the world. This same phenomenon occurs in prayer as we spend time focused on the Lord and his desires concerning the earth. We pray and then the Lord fills us with His plans so that we may be used by Him to pray those particular things into existence.

With all this we must stay so careful to pray the will of God, through God. The last note I posted discussed praying the word of God, but this one is similar and different at the same time. Praying the will of God is praying the very heart, and mind of God concerning a subject or situation. Romans 8:27 says,

 “And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.”

This scripture reveals to us how the Spirit of God, who is in the people of God, is praying for the people of God according to the will of God. The Spirit of the Lord is praying out the will of the Lord! (This is heavy to me personally) So the Lord has placed His spirit within us so that we may always have a channel to Him. The spirit of the Lord keeps us as believers connected to the Father at all times! The thing is that we must pray in His spirit. We mustn’t pray in our flesh, for in that lies our own mind, will and emotions. The Lord doesn't respond to the prayers of the soul that is hooked up to the flesh, but He responds to the prayers of His spirit resting within his people, praying prayers for His people according to his will. The Lord placed himself within you to keep you hooked up to him that you may see the provision of his will constantly. His will is to prosper us, give us an abundant life, heal us, deliver us, and do good to us. All this is what the spirit within us praying for us. In order to pray the will of God, we must dig deep and pray from what has already been placed within us. Once we pray according to Him in us we will see great manifestations of the Lord on the earth. The Lord is concerned for that which concerns you, and He is within you praying for the will of the Lord concerning everything you are concerned with. The will of the Lord is also associated with the plan of the Lord. We are to pray the plans of the Lord into existence, decreeing and declaring that His will shall be accomplished on the earth. 

Now when you go to pray, dig deep into the Spirit of the Lord within you, hear how He is praying. For we know that he is praying according to the will of the Lord. Once we have gotten a clear understanding, then we are able to proceed in prayer. This revelation has blessed me personally by teaching me how to pray more effectively. I don't know about anyone else, but my main desire is to please the Lord when I pray, and see results because my prayer hit heaven. My prayer for you as you have read this note, is to be ever so shaped and fine tuned as it relates to your prayer life, that you walk strong in spirit praying out the will of God for the earth today. For there is a great army of pray-ers coming forth in the days to come that will give birth to the will of God in the earth. We shall see the Lord’s power when we pray!