GIG258 Pray From Fulfillment

Growing In God Podcast

Title: Pray From Fulfillment

 

Web Description: If someone gives you a plate of delicious food, do you still pray, “God, give me food! Where is the food You promised me?” No, you just take it and say, “Thank you.” Yet even though God has already given us everything, we pray as if we have not received it. We need to change that way of praying. We need to shift our focus from this realm and dwell in the spirit realm where God’s Word is already fulfilled and then pray from that place.

 

Show Notes: When you pray, are you asking as someone who is separated from the fulfillment of your prayer? Are you asking God to bring a fulfillment that you are convinced you do not have? Yeshua (Jesus) said, “All things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them.” If we have already received the answer to our prayers, then there is a way to pray from a place of fulfillment rather than from a place of looking for fulfillment. Our minds have trouble grasping this concept, but it is simply a matter of changing our perception.

 

We can decide where we want our awareness to be. The Scriptures tell us that God has transferred us out of the realm of darkness into the Kingdom of His beloved Son. Therefore, our minds do not need to be controlled by our awareness of the physical realm. We can focus our awareness on His Kingdom. We can walk in the Spirit. Our dwelling place can be the spirit world where all things are finished and all things are possible. Our minds can be controlled by a new awareness of what God has already accomplished by His Word.

 

How do we get this awareness when we are so conditioned by what our senses tell us about the physical realm? We can go the Word of God. He has already told us what is in His Kingdom, and we just need to start relating to it. Let us start thinking God’s thoughts that are conformed to His Word rather than our thoughts that are conformed to this world. Let us be transformed by the renewing of our minds so that when we pray, we are not asking God to do something in the future; rather, we are thanking Him for what He said is already done.

 

Key Verses:

 

•       Colossians 1:13–14. “He… transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son.”

•       John 14:2. “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places.”

•       Revelation 12:7–9. “Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth.”

•       Acts 8:37–40. “The Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and … Philip found himself at Azotus.”

•       1 Corinthians 3:18–23. “Things present or things to come; all things belong to you.”

•       John 14:23. “My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.”

•       Mark 11:24. “All things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them.”

•       2 Corinthians 12:2–5. “Such a man was caught up to the third heaven.”

•       Jeremiah 32:37–42. “I am going to bring on them all the good that I am promising them.”

•       2 Peter 1:3. “His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness.”

•       Psalm 23:5. “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.”

•       Romans 12:2. “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

•       2 Corinthians 10:5. “We are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.”

•       Isaiah 55:8. “My thoughts are not your thoughts.”

 

Quotes:

 

•       “Prophets like Elijah and Elisha and others obviously knew how to move in the spirit so that things resulted from that. That has always been my understanding of what we in this day and age, as God's people, as moving as prophets, are to be able to do—manifest the reality of what the Scriptures are saying.”

•       “If you would turn off every physical sense that you have, you would still be aware; you just wouldn't be aware of the material world. But your awareness wouldn't go away because our awareness exists as part of our life. And that awareness can be focused where we want it.”

•       “It was finished in Genesis when He created it, and He finished all His work. He finished all His work, and He sat down and rested and told us to rest. Well, how do we rest? We rest when we can sit down in those finished works.”

 

Takeaways:

 

1.    When we pray, we need to position ourselves in the fulfillment of the Word of God instead of praying for it to happen in the future. Simply take what God has spoken and realize that if it is a Word from God, then it is not something that will be; it is something that already is.

2.    Our awareness is our own, and we choose what we want to be aware of. Spiritual awareness is something we have in the Holy Spirit, and the Scriptures tell us it is absolutely possible to be in a realm other than the physical realm that we normally focus on. We can dwell in a spiritual realm where the works of God are finished and His Word is already fulfilled.

3.    The prophecies of Scripture are ours now, and we do not have to put their fulfillment off in the future. So we need to put ourselves and everything we are praying for in that realm where everything God promised in His Word already exists.