You know, confessing the Word, having a positive confession and avoiding bad confession are good messages. Faith works as the Bible says "I have believed, therefore I speak". Being good truths as they are, you can expect them to be trashed. Example? Remember the conversation Jesus had with his disciples about moving mountains and cursing fig trees? Read the whole chapter and you will see the context was about doing what had to be done to make the Father's house a house of prayer. If we have faith in God, or the same faith, the same convictions about the house of prayer, then whatever mountains hinder the "house of prayer" we are to command to move. If we don't doubt our command of authority, then we will have what we say - moved mountains!
Notice it does not say "you can have everything you say". No matter how many times you have been told that it says that, it does not. And, in any translation you care to read, it does not say that and you can't make it say that. It was talking about what it was talking about - not life in general. It is about your authority not your wish list. Don't you know God is your Father and what good father would give his child everything that child said? I tell you no good father would do such a thing. To try to make this verse say that means we miss what the verse is actually saying and telling us to do. The result is harm to a great word and failure to assume responsibility to do our part in making the Father's house a "house of prayer".
Want to know where you should exercise this principle? Desire God's house to be a "house of prayer", a place in which He promised to make us joyful (Is. 56). Want that so bad you begin to command hindering mountains to move! Try it on your way to church next Sunday. Do it when you drive by a church on the roadside. Command hindering things to move away. Result? If you don't doubt your authority to command, mountains will begin to move and the house of prayer will begin to come alive with the power of the Holy Ghost. God will meet us and make us joyful in the house, but our role to play is to use our authority to make hindrances move. Then, in that powerful house of prayer, when you pray, what things you desire, you can ask, believe and receive. The condition of the church has an enormous affect on our prayer life, even our desires.
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I read your blog and studied the scriptures and this is what I found.
The house of prayer refers to the temple which was for the conversion
of the world. It was to have been a gathering place as seen in Matt. 21:12 & 14
It wasn't just for a place to be joyful but rather a place for cleansing, for holiness
and the process of making Holy. The temple was the house of Christ. It represents
His work for our salvation. Ps. 77:13
We know that Yeshua expects God's people to put forth the fruit of righteousness, and that unproductive branches are thrown in the fire. Thus the drying-up of the fig treeis an acted-out warning. In pro. 27:18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof; so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored. "He who tends a fig tree will eat his fruit, and he who serves his master will be honored." Yeshua is teaching his followers here what it means to serve their master, God: it means to simply have the kind of trust that comes from God, and that they will wither away if they don't.
V 22. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Read 1 john 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
Notice the condition for receiving.
Because we keep His commandments.
1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
"If we ask Jesus said, If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. Here we see that the Father responds "according to his will."
John 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
"If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it." So if we ask for a ton of gold will it appear for us? The text says anything. It also says "in my name." We remember that a name is more than just a word. It represents the person. It is character. So anything we ask that is in harmony with the goodness and justice of God, He will do. If we ask for forgiveness we can plead our case by the fact that Jesus died for us. The Father loves us, too, but it is Jesus who died for our sins and it is He who arranges our pardon before the Father. All other good gifts that we need we may ask for in the same spirit. Sometimes we do not receive our request because it is not for God's glory , not according to the name of Christ.
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