When we pray it is imperative to enter His gates with thanks and to enter His Courts with praise. Then, we come to rest and become 'seated' humbly and peacefully with Him in worship.
Our eyes are locked on His beautiful face.
Those who look to Him are radiant, their faces are never covered with shame.
The parable of the widow seeking justice from an unrighteous judge demonstrates a higher court system is in play.
She chooses to look beyond the terrible circumstance of her present situation. She even looks beyond the earthly judge.
Luke 18:1-8
When we enter the courts through praise and then choose to step into worship we are acknowledging the LORD is LORD of The Supreme Court of Heaven and Earth.
Most importantly- worship seats us with His majesty and peace so we can perceive and pray from His perspective. We need to pray Jesus' way. We need His viewpoint.
So much of what we call prayer is human based understanding rather than Spirit based revelation. This creates a weak and impotent form of prayer.
Does the LORD hear our limited human (understanding) based prayers? Of course He does! He is our Saviour and The One Mediator. He is for us. He loves us. He values the very groans of our hearts.
If we desire to create powerful strategic intercession...we must be IN THE SPIRIT...and we must pray IN THE SPIRIT.
We are instructed to pray in the spirit and in the understanding.
The Spirit searches the deep things of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them?
In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
1 Corinthians 2:10-12
Unfortunately we often pray in the spirit of the world...when we pray in our own human understanding.
We don't take time to enter His Courts and to be seated with Him in worship.
Ephesians 2:6
If we have an immediate or 'emergency' prayer and we feel there is no time to stop and worship...we misunderstand the power of Holy Spirit.
We can enter this restful peaceful realm immediately by praying in His Spirit. When we pray in the Spirit, in the language of heaven, this gains us access to the constant flows of heavenly rivers.
John 7:37
These Rivers are sourced in His Throne Room, His majestic Courts.
The Lord's very gracious thoughts are in the flow of those streams.
We must stop repeating bad news in our prayers.
We must stop repeating our worried thoughts in our prayers.
We must NOT, above all, pray our adversaries words!
We must pray Jesus' Spirit-breathed thoughts and Words. He is seated in rest and He is our One Mediator.
We must declare and decree God's perfect pure thoughts, His just and loving intentions, within our prayers.
He has clearly told us in Isaiah 55 that "His thoughts are not our thoughts! "
Yet, by His flow of Living Waters...He freely shares His wisdom from above.
It's so simple and so accessible to just enter His gates in thanksgiving. Then praise, then worship.
Entering a gate and entering a court is a 'movement' toward a 'place' but...
being 'seated' is a 'position' of rest and receiving...
this is our intended destination!
We often stop just short of our prayer goals and victories? We must simply press into His Spirit.
Holy Spirit generously assists and administers our prayers. He is The Helper.
The widows parable from Jesus, demonstrates this paradigm...
She captured a 'God thought' which caused her to persistently knock at the unrighteous judge's door.
She needed relief from her 'adversary' but her thought was focused on justice; her focus was on her peacemaker, not her adversary.
This is what abandoned worship does...we behold our peacemaker. We hear His healing voice. We are In Him. Abiding.
Resting in Him we partake of His overcoming power.
We are resting, seated in His lovingkindness and goodness.
The widow knew that justice was available from her God. She knew God wanted her to have peace and justice. She knew that goodness and life was her inheritance in spite of what her circumstance told her.
Jesus' parables encapsulated pure truth. For this reason, I believe He was speaking of a real person and a real situation.
These 'God thoughts' are the powerful, authorative, result making, prayer decrees waiting for us.
He is waiting to distribute and release all these to us...freely, generously...
powerful outcomes,
powerful results,
powerful unbreakable and immutable decrees...
through our prayers...
if we simply take our place of rest, seated next to Jesus our beloved, our Prince of Peace.
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