I do not believe you came here to see church as usual, you came here for church unusual. Amen? Let’s look at Luke 18:1-7.
Prayer: Daddy God, think through my mind; speak through my lips, let there be none of me and all of YOU in Jesus’ Name. Amen
Let’s read Luke 18:1-7. Jesus was a master at communicating concepts. HE used parables, HE used stories. HE was a great story-teller as we see in the bible. I believe that HE was one of the greatest story-tellers. Story-tellers are often known to use stories to communicate heavy-concepts from a higher-realm of intelligence so that the recipients can readily received it at their lower realm of intelligence and then be pulled up to the become smarter than what they used to be. In fact, when you read the bible, you are able to read the stories of people’s lives MOSTLY in soundbites, in snippets, little sections or parts. You see, in prayer, we can establish what the lawyers will call a “precedence” where if you take one story, and you can extrapolate the principles, you can stand in the throne room of God and you can use that Biography or Biographical Sketch or CV, biblical story … you can take it to heaven and you can begin to negotiate with your Daddy God, whom according to Romans 2:11, shows no favouritism, to do the same for you. This is why when you read the bible, very seldom do you have a repeat of similar circumstances because the bible really is a book about “The King”, “HIS Kingdom” and “HIS Children”. The bible is a book that allows you to view someone else’ life from a healthy perspective. By healthy, I actually mean “Godly”. In viewing that person’s life from a healthy perspective, you’re able to extrapolate the principles and you are able to use that to begin to construct your prayers.
If you cannot remember the whole story from the bible while praying, just recall a synopsis of it. For example, you may not remember how many stones David picked but you may remember that David picked up certain number of stones and then you go to your Daddy-God in prayer asking HIM to show you where your stones of victory is.
Prayer Point 1: My Father! Show me where my stones of victory is in the name of Jesus.
Then you can extrapolate the principles to make sure that the promises will follow.
Repeat after me:
Behind every principle, is a promise.
Once you know all these, you will become a very powerful prayer warrior. The Bible gives us a story that Jesus is telling; its called a parable. Why? Because HE wants to give the disciples (through out all time, that including you and I) an understanding of the power of prayer. Prayer has mechanics. It has technologies. Prayer is very very dynamic. It should not be under-estimated. You should not just cast it aside and only use it when you are in the midst of a crisis. You see, prayers can stop atomic bombs from exploding. More powerful than atomic bombs, Prayers can stop the sun from moving as we know of in Joshua Chapter 10. More powerful than the sun, prayer can destroy demons and stop angels in their tracks. More powerful than angel and demons, prayer can move God!
Prayer Point 2: My Father! No evil shall befall me nor my loved ones. All things will start to work together for good for me in Jesus’ Name
Prayer Point 3: My Father! The sun shall not smite me by day nor the moon by night in the name of Jesus
Prayer Point 4: My Daddy! Demonic Operations concerning my life shall not succeed in the name of Jesus
Prayer Point 5: Daddy-God! Charge your angels concerning me! Let them bear me up lest I dash my foot against a stone in the name of Jesus.
Prayer Point 6: Daddy-God! Move on my behalf in Jesus’ Name.
You should pray without ceasing and it’s possible. Jesus said in Luke 18:1-7
Verse 1: 1And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray…
Prayer is not just you talking to God giving HIM a list of things that you want done. Prayer is dynamic in that it is a two-way conversation; it is a dialogue between you and your Father. Your Father says, “…come now let us reason together…” (Isaiah 1:18) . When you pray, you are actually engaging Yahweh! It’s not necessarily that HE is coming down to your level, HE is also bringing you up to HIS level so that you can have HIS mind (1 Corinthians 2:16) to call forth by faith those things that are not as though they were (Romans 4:17). That means prayer elevates you in the realm of the spirit. Your Daddy-God is infinite. HE has nothing to gain from you when you pray. HE is God and satisfied all by HIMSELF – HE is the self-existing God… Yahweh! When HE cries or laughs for you its not because HE has lost or gained something, it is HIS love, HIS empathy that feels for you. So Prayer actually elevates you in the realm of the spirit. When your Father created mankind, HE said that HE created us after HIS image and after HIS likeness (Genesis 1:26-28). When man fell, it was the greatest travesty. Man did not fall from a spiritual or physical place. Man fell from a realm of dominion; the realm that the man dominated; where everything was in order; where he not only commanded the cosmos or universe but trees spoke to him, he spoke to animals, he spoke to nature and gave it names and whatever names he gave to nature, nature became whatever man wanted it to be (Genesis 2:19). Your Father placed Adam in a Garden. The Garden is an indication of a “Finished Work” just like Jesus has brought us all too into a finished work by crying on the cross “It is Finished” (John 19:30). All the man had to do was to “work out” the finished-work that was already “worked-in” by your Father … just like we are told to “work-out” our salvation with fear and trembling because your Father has already worked salvation in you! (Philippians 2:12-13). This is why the prayer of faith is the prayer FROM victory, not the prayer FOR victory. You need to learn how believe that you have already received answers to your prayers and then you will receive the answers to your prayers (Mark 11:24). This is spiritual-law. Logically, I cannot explain this seemingly contradiction. The test of the pudding is in the tasting. You do it and come back and testify to what HE has done for you in Jesus’ name!
The Garden of Eden was maybe as big as the whole of the United Kingdom – and your Father called that a Garden. Do you feel like you are going through a mess right now? Do you feel that you are losing control in whatsoever you may be going through, let me encourage you today … no matter the jungle or the storms of life you may be going through, stay focused on Jesus! Because when you stay focused on HIM WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get … as you keep your eyes on HIM, you begin to look like HIM (2 Corinthians 3:18) and the storms of life you thought were impossible for you, you will begin to walk on water in Jesus’ Name. Adam was not worn out as he worked-out that Garden in charge over what your Father deemed as a small plot of land. I have a word for someone here today: Your problem may look big, but your Daddy-God is bigger. Say this to someone else. Your Father was able to use Adam to manage what was already finished and worked in. Your Father gave Adam some insight. He told Adam to work out the Garden by dressing it, or tending to it, or managing it… to keep it, to protect it – to keep it going on. You don’t protect something if there is no threat or an enemy destroying it or a thief around to steal it. You don’t work something out unless there is a danger that it may never manifest. Remember the rhetoric: USE IT OR LOOSE IT. So your Father gave Adam some insight into the realm of the Spirit saying, “Watch out now! Even though you’re in an optimal environment; Even though the Finished-Work has all been worked in; the enemy is going to attempt to attack you. The highest form of Spiritual Warfare is not the devil giving you cancer, or giving you a cold, or causing addiction or causing strife … that’s not the highest form of spiritual warfare! The highest form of spiritual warfare is when the enemy counsel’s your mind. Why? Because when he counsels your mind, he counsels it with a thought! And because thinking is something that we do naturally and normally and the thing about thinking is that you don’t need a degree to think, you don’t need a PhD; you do it naturally! So it’s possible that the enemy can be attempting to destroy you and you would not even “know” it with that same mind. Forget about all the abracdabra and ritual charms why? Because even if satanic people are conjuring up curses because the curse causeless shall not come (Proverbs 26:2). We know that the curse is the natural outcome of an act of disobedience to the faith or disobedience to the belief. It doesn’t have anything necessarily to do with witches or wizards or warlocks or people that are involved in voodoo or white magic or black magic or Ouija boards etc It does not necessarily have anything to do with that because we know that no weapon formed against us shall prosper (Isaiah 54:17) – we know that! So those witches or wizards or warlocks are just wasting their time. You may see the evil weapons or weapons or evil people prosper, you may even hear the curse but I love what your Daddy-God said to Nehemiah in Nehemiah 13:2
2Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
I am decreeing and declaring that every curse that was sent to you, is going to be turned into a blessing for you in the name of Jesus. You are going to have a Joseph-experience where you are going to say, “you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good” (Genesis 50:20). Give your neighbour a high-five and say, “It’s all good! It’s all good! It’s all good!”
In the Garden of Eden, the scripture says, that when the enemy came, he just dropped a thought in the mind of Eve; “Did God really say…?… And God is withholding something from you…” What the enemy was doing was trying to plant in their minds the idea that God has no credibility. “You can’t trust HIS word. HE makes these promises and HE’s not gonna keep it … HE’s withholding something from you.” Now, when we talk about Spiritual Warfare, Spiritual Warfare is the counsel of the human mind by any other Spirit other than your Daddy God. When the enemy shows up, we may not be skilled enough to really alway discern that that’s the devil. Your Heavenly Father said, “I’m going to give you a litmus test“. He said in Philippians 4:8,
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
That means that if a thought comes to you and it doesn’t fit the descriptions of all 8 characteristics of Godly thought; if the devil injects it, you’ve gotta reject it. Now, this is important and I’m going to give you an example Jesus was giving the disciples to live in the realm of dominion – the realm that Adam fell from. Because my topic is not “Dominion”, there is a lot of things I can tell you about Dominion and how to get Dominion. And how to live on top of the world and how to be successful. And how to recognise when a door is closed in one realm, how to top to the roof and rip the roof off. But this is not a topic of Dominion – this is a topic of prayer. But Jesus teaching the disciples, HE would use object lessons. And one day there were 5 thousand men – they didn’t count the women and the children so it had to be approximately somewhere between 15 to 20 thousand people that had gathered together in one place. And Jesus said, “give them bread to eat.” And HE did this to show us how the devil can superimpose a thought – Spiritual Warfare now – into the minds of the disciples (you’ve gotta follow me). Jesus said, “You give them bread”. That means that if HE told you to do it, there is going to be a resource to do it. You may not see the resource, but if HE said “do it”, the resource is there. But the resource, if you cannot see it in the natural, it has to be in the spiritual. Your Heavenly Father has already blessed you with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places, which means that all that you need already exists but it exists in a different Realm. This is why the Bibel says,
“…walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfil the lust of the flesh…” (Galatians 5:16)
By doing this, your flesh will not drive you crazy all over the place. So one of the disciples said, “200 pennies worth of bread” I’ve done the calculation – 200 pennies, in those days, when they work for a full day, they will give them a penny for one full day. So the disciples was saying that even if I work for 6 months … they were calculating in their minds that even when I do what God wants me to do, I’m going to have to work by the sweat of the brow for about 6 months! Why? Because when Adam fell, he fell from a realm of revelation into a realm of information. He fell from a realm of faith into a realm of facts. And so the Bible says, “The Just Shall Live by Faith” and not “Facts”. So when the enemy begins to fights you, he lines up all the facts. You’re gonna get this in a minute. He lined up the facts
…you don’t have this…
…you’re not educated…
…people don’t like you…
…how’re you gonna pay for it?…
…you don’t have any friends …
…nobody is opening any doors…
…there’s nobody helping you…
…your mama…
…your daddy…
…you’re too short…
…you’re too fat…
…you’re too tall…
…you’re too skinny…
…you’re an immigrant…
…you’re not a British Citizen…
…you’re a man…
…you’re a woman…
…you’re black…
…you’re white…
Those are the facts! The Just shall live by faith. As long as you are bound by facts, you will always live in this cursed realm of struggle. But the moment you step out of the realm of facts into the realm of faith, you step into to the realm of God which is the realm of unlimited possibilities. For with God, all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). But with man, they’re impossible.
Hence,