Prayer, Relationship with The Father

Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. (Isa 45:11)

Jesus asked to address our prayer to ‘Our Father which art in Heaven’ (Matt 6:9). He is saying that prayer is a privilege to those who are exclusively God’s children. Many write books, speak, preach, talk, study, etc on prayer, but do we exercise our relationship as children of our Father in Heaven? There are many places in Scripture that God challenges, reminds or even as though pleading with us to communicate with Him to ask in prayer. By and large, few have found a living relationship to the Father in prayer in asking for His will and His Kingdom to be established on earth as it has been in Heaven. Desires in prayer mostly concerns self desires, not God’s desires; it doesn’t seem to matter if many perish in hell as long as my ‘needs’ are met (2 Pet 3:9). Genuine relationship in prayer is about Father's business, not ours.

Enlarge the place of thy tent…… and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. (Isa 54:2-3)

God’s Kingdom and will has already been established in Heaven, it’s is our privilege to pray down His desire to the earth. Our prayer relationship and position with the Father is from above, not to ‘pull down’ His Kingdom (Eph 2:6). We don’t pray from a defeated mentality, but from the pinnacle of victory that Christ has accomplished and completed. All the blessings are already stored up in God’s Throne Room, our prayer serves as the conduit to bring the execution of it on the earth.  The Father says to enlarge our capacity to bring the flow from Heaven down to earth. The larger the conduit, the greater the capacity to deliver God’s will on the earth.

…. and if I perish, I perish. (Est 4:16)

God’s divine plan cannot fail and if we fail to pray down His Kingdom purposes for execution on earth, He will raise up another but we will be forfeited from His plan. Prayer involves carrying the cross that Jesus has prescribed to all those who desire to follow Him, we lay aside our plans to consider His plans. We lay aside each other’s concerns, comfort and perhaps our lives to pray the higher establishment of His plans. Pray, it’s every Christian’s vital relationship with the God Who created the ends of the earth and be participators of His Kingdom purposes on earth.