Kingdom Prayer - Part 1

Kingdom Prayer by Shaun Blignaut 

(Senior Elder at Father's Heart Ministries  and function as 

an Apostle and Prophet to the Body of Christ globally)

INTRODUCTION

Matthew 6: 9-13
Prayer is not selfish, individualistic, or isolated attempts at changing God’s mind to serve my
individual, selfish needs in the earth.Kingdom prayer expresses heaven’s desire in the earth.
It is corporate, community activity. It is uttered from a perspective of ‘us’, ‘we’, and ‘our’, rather than ‘me’, ‘I’ and ‘my’

• Kingdom prayer serves the common good of all.

• True kingdom prayer is never selfish, it interacts, and activates God’s purpose for the
  whole of humanity.

• Kingdom prayer is firstly God-ward, then man-ward.

• Kingdom prayer never expresses the wants and needs of man as foremost, but seeks to establish His   dominion – His right and His centrality in the universe as supreme.

• Kingdom prayer is not so much the audible, correct vocabulary in outwardly expressing ourselves to God, but the alignment of our inner-selves with His nature – the aligning of our hearts with His.

In Matt.6:9-13, Jesus is laying down a divine pattern for exchange with, and accessing eternity.

"This, then, is how you should pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from the evil one.^"

He lays down rules for:

• Earth interacting heaven

• Engaging the unseen, invisible realm – heaven

If you understand and apply these rules, you can stand in any jurisdiction of the earth and have heaven’s favourable response working on your behalf.This prayer gives you an understanding
of how God’s mind is structured and which elements in our divine exchange will move Him in response.

This prayer becomes an interface between two realms – it suggests the technology and methodology for earth engaging heaven.

God’s desire is to always progressively move heaven (spirit) to earth (soul).
 Heaven depicts the eternal realm and earth the temporal
“Your Kingdom come"

• The kingdom is the expression of His will, rule, order and government in the earth.

• The earth must be invaded with the rule and government of God.

• Heaven must impose its will and governing principles upon the earth.

• Our minds (earth) must be overwhelmed by the spirit (heaven)

• Only the values of heaven can transform the soul of man.

• Transformation of the soul is connected to the continual‘coming’ of the kingdom into the mind to possess and rule it.

• So, the governing principles of the heavens must shift the soul into conformity to the demands of the kingdom.

Matt.6:9
"This, then, is how you should pray"
here is the Greek word proseuchomai which means:
“Pray”
“to pray to God”
It embraces all that is included in the idea of prayer:

1.  To ask

2.  To thank

3.  To make request for particular needs

4.  To request

"Do not be quick (hasty, rash) with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything
before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few."

These verses describe a certain posture of spirit and mind in prayer.
These verses are not a reflection on a physical approach to God, but the inner disposition of our hearts when drawing near to God.

In “the Lord’s prayer”, Jesus is disclosing what our inner attitude should be when we come to God in prayer.
“Do not be quick with your mouth; do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God”
A prerequisite then for prayer is to “guard” the mouth and heart during prayer!
The word “guard” is the Hebrew word Samar which is first mentioned in Gen.2:15 where it relates to tending a garden, while it also carries the following meanings:

To guard a flock

To preserve

To protect

To watch as a watchman of sheep, or cattle

All these meanings suggest that when we approach God in prayer that the inner attitude of our hearts not stray as sheep off course, or our imagination runs wild like cattle unprotected from the enemy!
In other words:
“put a watchman over your attitude and mentality"
when you pray.
Do not stray into arrogance and self-righteous expressions in prayer.

 Prov.4:23
“Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life”

• We should guard our hearts as a soldier guards the city gates.
  
• Watch over your affections to prevent an invasion of foreign values when you pray.
  
• The word “guard” also means to maintain alertness and discipline as a
  soldier guarding over a castle to protect the king within.
  
• The heart is the source of all that you speak. Matt.12:34-35.

Thank you for visiting my Blog, please be on the look out for Kingdom Prayer - Part 2

Mark Khan
Life Coach / Inter-Networker
Position Yourself To Max Life

Father's Heart Ministries mission can be summarized as follows:

Equalizing the Church, Advancing the Kingdom, impacting the Nations. 

Shaun Blignaut
is Senior Elder and function as an Apostle and Prophet to the Body of Christ.
Father's Heart Ministries
 is an Apostolic Reforming Congregation, based in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
 
"Our desire is to teach, train, challenge, warn and activate the Church to reconnect the Centrality of Christ and His Kingdom."

http://www.fathersheartministries.co.za/

WORDS! - Part 2

The Legacy of Derek Prince Teaching

Words are Things
The two actual human languages in which God’s written revelation, the Bible, was first given to man, are Hebrew (and its sister, Aramaic) in the Old Testament and Greek in the New. There is one particularly significant fact that is common to both of these languages. In each of them there is one word—in Hebrew dabar and in Greek rhema—that can equally accurately be translated either “word” or “thing.” Only the context can show in each instance which translation is to be preferred, and sometimes it is necessary to translate in both ways to give the full meaning of the original.

For instance, the utterance of Gabriel to Mary in Luke 1:37 can equally well be translated: “With God nothing will be impossible,” or “With God no word will be void of power.” We might perhaps express this by saying, “Every word of God contains in it the power for its own fulfillment.”

This peculiarity of Hebrew and Greek, the two languages chosen for divine revelation, is no accident. It illustrates a fundamental principle of the divine nature. With God, words are things. There is no real distinction between the two. “God said, ‘Let there be light’;and there was light” (Genesis 1:3). When God spoke the word, “light,” the thing, light, came into being. “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God” (Hebrews 11:3). In sober fact, words were the only means that God used to create the whole universe.

Words are the material out of which the whole universe is constructed. It is not too much to say, therefore, that in committing to man the faculty of speech, God committed to man His own divine, creative power. No wonder that it remains the supreme distinguishing mark between man and the animals.

Words from the Heart
The Lord Jesus gave us a further insight into the importance of words when He said: “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matthew 12:34). That is to say, the first and fullest revelation of the contents of a man’s heart is given in his words.

The heart is the origin and wellspring of a man’s whole life (see Proverbs 4:23); but words are the divinely ordained channel through which that life shall flow and find expression.

While a man sits silent in my presence, I cannot sense what is in his heart. But when he speaks, he conveys to my senses in words what is in his heart. Words thus break down the barrier between one
human heart and another.

It is for this reason that Jesus Himself is called “the Word of God.” By our senses we cannot know God, we cannot search or understand the heart and mind of God. Creation— that is, God’s “words” having become “things”—gives us a certain witness of God’s eternal power and Godhead (see Romans 1:20), but it does not fully reveal the heart of God.

On the other hand, Jesus,manifested to our senses in human flesh, gives us the full and perfect revelation of the heart of God. Just as a man’s words convey to our senses the invisible thoughts of his heart, so Jesus conveys to our senses the nature of the invisible God. He is, in the deepest sense, the “Word of God” —the perfect expression to our senses of the heart and mind of God, which we could never fully know in any other way. Jesus, the living Word, breaks down the barrier between the heart of God and the heart of man.

Words Divine Origin
The faculty of speech, then, is of divine origin. It is something wonderful and sacred. It is not to be belittled or misused. Jesus Himself repeatedly warned us against this. “By your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned” (Matthew 12:37). “Every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment” (Matthew 12:36). “Let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one” (Matthew 5:37).

Our words should be sober, accurate, pure, without exaggeration— sacred instruments used for sacred purposes. Idle words— words used in any other way or for any other purposes—are sins, to be
confessed and put away before God can restore His blessing.

It is written of Christ, “Grace is poured upon Your lips; therefore God has blessed You forever” (Psalm 45:2). Of the bride of Christ, the Scripture records:
“Your lips are like a strand of scarlet, and your mouth [or speech] is lovely. . . . Your lips, O my spouse, drip as the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue.” (Song 4:3, 11)

To the church Paul commands: “Let your speech always be with grace” (Colossians 4:6). Not only does God desire, through faith, to restore to our words grace and purity. He seeks to restore·also that authority and dominion that man held before the fall but lost through sin. In Job 22:28 it is promised to the sinner who will meet God’s conditions of repentance and faith: “You will also declare a thing, and it will be established for you.” That is, the decree of a redeemed sinner shall have the same authority as the decree of the Almighty God.

Of Samuel it is written, “The LORD . . . let none of his words fall to the ground” (1 Samuel 3:19). That is, the words uttered by Samuel so represented the mind and will of God that they were as sure and effectual as if God had uttered them Himself.

Joshua spoke to the sun and moon, and by his spoken words he arrested their course in the heavens for twenty-four hours. (See Joshua 10:12–14.)

Elijah said to Ahab: “As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word” (1 Kings 17:1). It is the sole prerogative of the one true God to control the fall of rain (see Jeremiah 14:22). Yet Elijah declared that the fall both of rain and of dew for a certain period—three and a half years, the New Testament reveals in James 5:17—would be under the control of his word. By his word he could withhold them, and by his word he could liberate them. Sure enough, for three and a half years no rain or dew fell. Then, by his word— spoken to God in prayer—he liberated them. Thus, in the Old Testament, men controlled, by their words, such manifestations of God’s creative power as the course of the heavenly bodies, and the fall of rain and dew.

In the New Testament, Jesus simply spoke to a fig tree, and it withered from the roots. When His disciples marveled at this, Jesus expressly delegated to them similar, and even greater, authority:
“You will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done.And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” (Matthew 21:21–22)

This double promise includes both words spoken to God in prayer and words spoken for God in any other way. Thus, it is the express will and purpose of Jesus to invest the words of His believing disciples with the same effective and creative power and authority that God’s own words possess.

If only we Christians would cease to despise and misuse these sacred instruments. If only we would put away from us all idle and unsanctified speech—foolish talk, jesting, gossip, backbiting, tale bearing and exaggeration. We would soon be astonished at the power with which our words would be invested.

Thank you for visiting my Blog. also check Words Part 3 For further study, we recommend Derek Prince's CD: Use and Abuse of the Tongue Subscribe at www.derekprince.org

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Skype ID: ageofseth
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WORDS! - Part 1

The Legacy of Derek Prince Teaching

“It’s only words!” . . . “What is there in words?”
How often we hear people use such expressions as these! And how false they are! The truth is, rather, that it is scarcely possible to estimate the power and significance of words. The faculty of language—that is, the power of expression in words, whether spoken or written—is one of the supreme gifts of God the Creator to man the creature whom He formed in His own image and likeness. It is one most important aspect of the likeness between God and man, which is not shared by any creatures of a lower order.

Today, after unremitting efforts to prove the theory of evolution, this faculty of language possessed by man remains one clear and unchallengeable mark of division between him and the animals which evolutionists have never been able to remove or to explain. So long as this barrier stands, the theory of evolution can never provide a satisfactory account of the origin of man.

Language Sets Man Apart
Indissolubly linked with this faculty of language is the faculty of thought and reasoning. If you wish to satisfy yourself of this, analyze the processes of thought that go on in your mind for a short period. You will find that at least eighty percent of your thinking is done in words. In fact, the more refined and subtle a man’s power of reasoning becomes, the more dependent he becomes upon language as the  material of reasoning. The simplest forms of physical sensations and desires—just those things that man shares in common with the animals—can partly be expressed by thought in forms other than language. But as we rise above this level, we find that we have no other means of expression but language. This becomes even plainer if we include under the term language the symbolic systems of logic, mathematics and music, which are in reality only specialized forms of the same general faculty. 

These conclusions about the importance of language, drawn merely from common human experience, are fully confirmed when we consider what God Himself teaches on this subject. The two supreme revelations of Himself that God has given to man are the Bible and Jesus Christ. Upon both of these, divine authority has conferred the title, “the Word of God.” Could anything give to words, as such, a higher importance than this?

Words Are Things
The two actual human languages in which God’s written revelation,
the Bible, was fi rst given to man, are Hebrew (and its sister, Aramaic) in the Old Testament and Greek in the New. There is one particularly significant fact that is common to both of these languages. In each of them there is one word—in Hebrew dabar and in Greek rhema—that can equally accurately be translated
either “word” or “thing.” Only the context can show in each instance which translation is to be preferred, and sometimes it is necessary to translate in both ways to give the full meaning of the original.

For instance, the utterance of Gabriel to Mary in Luke 1:37 can
equally well be translated: “With God nothing will be impossible,” or “With God no word will be void of power.” We might perhaps express this by saying, “Every word of God contains in it the power for its own fulfillment.”

This peculiarity of Hebrew and Greek, the two languages chosen
for divine revelation, is no accident. It illustrates a fundamental principle of the divine nature. With God, words are things. There is
no real distinction between the two. “God said, ‘Let there be light’;
and there was light” (Genesis 1:3). When God spoke the word, “light,” the thing, light, came into being. “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God” (Hebrews 11:3). In sober fact, words were the only means that God used to create the whole universe.

Thank you for visiting my Blog. also check Words Part 2 For further study, we recommend Derek Prince's CD: Use and Abuse of the Tongue Subscribe at www.derekprince.org

Mark Khan
Life Coach / Inter-Networker
Skype ID: ageofseth
"Hope is the best part of our riches."


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