How do we pray? God teaches us how to pray. Often in street ministry God will speak to me and tell me how to intercede for people. Over time I've noticed that these directed prayers combine two different steps. God will instruct me to pray against something, and then pray for something from Him to be brought in. For example, I might be told to pray against someone's judgmental attitude and for the healing of their family relationships. Now, I don't know these people, nor do I usually talk to them, but I just have to take my guidance by faith. His sheep hear His voice.
In the spiritual world, there are both Godly and ungodly forces. Remember, whoever is not for Jesus is against Him (Matthew 12:30). When praying, God will lead to dictate accordingly. This takes two steps, like I said above--binding and loosing. We need to pray against the forces of darkness and have God eliminate them, and then we need to pray for good things and have God give them. This is what it means to bind and loose.
Of course, we need to be led in this. We should only bind things that are bound in Heaven, and we should only loose things that are loosed in Heaven. How do we know the reality that exists in Heaven? We don't-- but God does. We need to be close enough to Him so that we can be led by His Spirit and discern His voice. He will tell us what it's like where He is--His Spirit will search this for us and reveal to us just what we need to know (1 Corinthians 2:10).
So we need to identify how our current reality differs from that in Heaven. And we need to pray for God to bring in complete alignment! We need to pray His Kingdom come. Let's bind what is not for Him, and loose what pleases Him. This is our spiritual warfare.
Confirmed: Two days ago I had an opportunity to do some street ministry in an absolutely packed grocery store. I was in Heaven!! This isn't just entertainment--it helps me believe and gives me God's purpose. Anyways, God had me intercede for some people that I didn't get a chance to talk to. He was having me do just what I've described in this post--first praying against darkness, and then praying into the Kingdom. The more you are operating in faith, hope and Love, the more rewarding this is. Wigglesworth said that you only need a touch from Jesus to have a good time.
Right after this errand we got back into the car and I resumed reading Bill Johnson's new book. He was talking about binding and loosing...how in the past he would bind the oppressors, but then mistakenly not loose anything! As a result, his prayers seemed to lack the power that he felt like they should have.
As believers, as sons of God, we have been given spiritual authority. Our words have power, and binding and loosing are the commands of Heaven! These two phrases contain power to restrain the enemy and release angel armies. There is power of life and death in our tongue (Proverbs 18:21). There is power to build up and to tear down according to the prayers we pray. As Christians we need to step into the will of God through targeted prayer. We need to work on behalf of His Kingdom! Let's allow Him to give us a heart for intercession.
In the spiritual world, there are both Godly and ungodly forces. Remember, whoever is not for Jesus is against Him (Matthew 12:30). When praying, God will lead to dictate accordingly. This takes two steps, like I said above--binding and loosing. We need to pray against the forces of darkness and have God eliminate them, and then we need to pray for good things and have God give them. This is what it means to bind and loose.
Of course, we need to be led in this. We should only bind things that are bound in Heaven, and we should only loose things that are loosed in Heaven. How do we know the reality that exists in Heaven? We don't-- but God does. We need to be close enough to Him so that we can be led by His Spirit and discern His voice. He will tell us what it's like where He is--His Spirit will search this for us and reveal to us just what we need to know (1 Corinthians 2:10).
So we need to identify how our current reality differs from that in Heaven. And we need to pray for God to bring in complete alignment! We need to pray His Kingdom come. Let's bind what is not for Him, and loose what pleases Him. This is our spiritual warfare.
Confirmed: Two days ago I had an opportunity to do some street ministry in an absolutely packed grocery store. I was in Heaven!! This isn't just entertainment--it helps me believe and gives me God's purpose. Anyways, God had me intercede for some people that I didn't get a chance to talk to. He was having me do just what I've described in this post--first praying against darkness, and then praying into the Kingdom. The more you are operating in faith, hope and Love, the more rewarding this is. Wigglesworth said that you only need a touch from Jesus to have a good time.
Right after this errand we got back into the car and I resumed reading Bill Johnson's new book. He was talking about binding and loosing...how in the past he would bind the oppressors, but then mistakenly not loose anything! As a result, his prayers seemed to lack the power that he felt like they should have.
As believers, as sons of God, we have been given spiritual authority. Our words have power, and binding and loosing are the commands of Heaven! These two phrases contain power to restrain the enemy and release angel armies. There is power of life and death in our tongue (Proverbs 18:21). There is power to build up and to tear down according to the prayers we pray. As Christians we need to step into the will of God through targeted prayer. We need to work on behalf of His Kingdom! Let's allow Him to give us a heart for intercession.
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