Prayer Remixed: Who’s blessing whom?

These are just notes from Louie’s talk online at www.268generation.com under talk 1; Prayer Remixed, you need to listen to it online to fully comprehend the notes! I think it gives us as Christians a totally different perspective to how to pray.

PRAYER REMIXED:

Prayer is the opportunity to talk to the Creator and we just want Him to bless me/us most of the time.

We need to ask God to live through me, to ask God to use me. For we are are not guaranteed and promised that nothing bad will happen to us, no tribulations and trials will happen to us. It will happen.

Let us not pray; God watch over me, do not let anything bad happen to me.. that is our prayer, that is what we want God to do for us.

But there will be dilemmas and issues with my life, if we do fall into a trial and a difficult place.. and for all we know God led us there for a greater purpose.

How do we pray then?

1) Lets say real and meaningful things to God.. communication to the God of the universe. We use real words, dun use tired religious cliches that do not mean anything to him.

To have a conversation more like we are talking to a friend, to a person who means so much more to us than spiritual words.

2) Lets pray new testament prayers

; in light of the grace that God has poured out in the cross

; in light of the power of the resurrection of the Son of God.

That we understand the reality that has happened in Christ.

We like to say bless people, bless everything we got going… that nothing will go wrong.. Like hey God bless the deal… God approved like we need God signature, like wave the hand over and something magical would happen..

Sometimes we think with God, we are sort of obnoxious, we want Him to bless our adventure, our trip, our home, our day, our conversation…

We want him to put the spiritual; everything is going to be okie on it..

God HAS blessed us more than we can ever imagine..

Genesis 12:2-3

God’s promise to Abraham..

2 “I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”

Abraham had to move out of his household and somewhere unknown.. It was a big deal; the father’s blessing.

Numbers 6:22-27 Aaron’s blessing

The Priestly Blessing

22 The LORD said to Moses, 23 “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:

24 ” ‘ “The LORD bless you
and keep you;

25 the LORD make his face shine upon you
and be gracious to you;

26 the LORD turn his face toward you
and give you peace.” ‘

27 “So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”

They will all completely fulfilled, all the promise of the blessing came to past in Jesus. In His death on the cross for sins, all the blessings came.

Galatians 3:14 Faith of Abraham and the faith of Jesus Christ

14He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

All that blessing that God promised, we got it in the name of Jesus Christ even though we were not Jewish. We are in it, the story. We just need to thank Him for the blessings of Abraham and we are in the family.

We just thank Him and bless Him.

Ephesians 1:3

Spiritual Blessings in Christ

3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

That is spiritual blessings: some people think they need the real stuff; they need a car, a job, a safe journey..

But the Heavenly realms; its a spiritual realm among us, among the physical things.

If the car breaks down; PRAISE GOD! cos He has given us and bless us in every spiritual way!

John 1:14-16

14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,^[a] who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

15John testifies concerning him. He cries out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’ ” 16From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.

“FULLNESS” of grace, we have been partakers of everything good that is Jesus Christ. From His Grace, the fountain has been opened up to us. We have been given the “Abrahamic” blessings.. and we just want Him to bless our job and over our meetings..

In Jesus Christ, we have the fullness of the blessings forever..

We as believers, we just want a little something Lord.. a little something.. like we are looking for the present all the time.. can we get a little something.. something happens and we get a present, and we think that this is a proof that God loves us.

We had so many “presents” and we just focus on that one “present” that we want.. God has nothing that He can give us, that we do not already have.

The presents are not ipods, not BMW car keys.. those are needs of life and everything that we ever need..

2 Peter 1:3

Making One’s Calling and Election Sure

3His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

God has given us everything pertaining to life that we need. He has made us joint heirs with Jesus.

Romans 8:17

17Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

Whatever Christ has as an inheritance, He gave it to us.

John1:12

12Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—

Romans 8:37

37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Ephesians 2:6

6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

Right now we are positionally connected to Jesus, spiritually connected to Jesus.

John 14:2

2In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.

You will never be separated from the love of God, nothing, not death, not pain, no tribulations.

Romans 8

Philippians; I am going to supply all your needs according to my riches and glory.

Colossians, we have His spirit, His genes, we can pray in His authority. We have constant communication with God. WE are accepted, and we are clothed.. God takes care of the whole universe, why not us?

When we ask, we just have a whole different attitude towards our asking. WE thank you God… We do not even know what is at our disposal, we do not even know what God has already done for us. Use some of the blessings that God have already given you, to make His name renown.

We have every extra we need in this life, and we kept asking God for more when we do not know what is in store for us. Let us bless God..

Lets pray Singapore bless God.. We bless God with what we have..

To do His calling..

We are the children of God.. and we have promises that are unending from God..

God, you have so blessed us, you have so blessed me, let me bless you.

Instead of the stream coming down pertually from God.. Let our stream move back to God..

Blessing and joy, happinesses, open hands, surrender, lives, earnest prayer: “We do not know what is going to happen, however we want to let this trip bless you, however you choose to use us, let the trip bless you” Let the money I do have to bless you.

Lets not pray the same phrases over and over..

Lets not pray vain prayers that are just words..

Jesus said: “Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be your name, blessed be your name.”

There is not one prayer after Calvary is about bless us, its about thanking God for the blessings that Jesus has given.

Does this mean that praying for more blessing is wrong? No…

Author of Prayer of Jabez: He had a burden for the country of Africa, where Aids is dominant, where poverty and injustice seem to be outstripping everything that is good. He moved out of his comfortable home. He moved to Johannasburg. He is investing his life to people that needed Jesus.

He did not think and pray more for me, more for me. He prayed, I got a pile (of money) here and he is wondering how am i going to disperse this blessing

How do you pray then?

When you pray, pray words that has skin on it. We want the fingerprint of God in my life. We want to ask God, that we do not have much, but use me and multiply me, with your powerful hands the way I never could in a hundred life times.

We just want the imprint of God on every moment on it. Pray, God this is what we got, can you do more than what we can ever imagine, so that at the end of the day we can bless you cos you have already blessed us more than we ever know or imagine.
all from www.268generation.com …

Love,

Jewel

Advertisement