Consider this...
God wants and needs for you to be delivered as much if not more than you do!
We're taught, wrongfully, that we need to beg for His help, and sometimes the answer is 'No.' Maybe He wants to teach us something, or maybe we just don't deserve His help.
These things are not true. I don't care where you heard them.
'For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are YES; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.' [2 Corinthians 1:20]'"Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the FATHER MAY BE GLORIFIED in the Son. If you ask Me ANYTHING in My name, I will do it."' [John 14:13,14]'"In that day you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you. Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you WILL receive, so that your joy may be made full."' [John 16:23,24]'...and through Him everyone who believes is freed from ALL THINGS, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.' [Acts 13:39]
Already
Technically, we are already delivered from everything we need to be delivered from, because His works were finished from the foundation of the world. [Hebrews 4:3]
Technically, we are already delivered from everything we need to be delivered from, because His works were finished from the foundation of the world. [Hebrews 4:3]
We are one Spirit with Him, His Body in the earth...as He is, SO ALSO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD! [1 Corinthians 6:17; Ephesians 1:23; 1 John 4:17]
'For in Him ALL THE FULLNESS of Deity—GODHEAD—dwells in bodily form, and in Him YOU HAVE BEEN MADE COMPLETE...' [Colossians 2:9,10]
Did you know that the Greek word for 'salvation' is soteria, meaning deliverance, preservation and safety? Deliverance from the molestation of enemies!! Hallelujah!
In fact, He tells us how to appropriate His will.
'And do not be conformed to this world, but be TRANSFORMED by the renewing of your mind, so that you may PROVE what the will of God is, that which is GOOD and ACCEPTABLE and PERFECT.' [Romans 12:2]
In other words, we are transformed when we know we are!
Transformed into the manifestation of His Word! Healed, delivered, rich, protected...
Why? So that we can PROVE what His good and acceptable and perfect will is!
We are to be His proof in the earth...proof that He is Love, proof that He is good, proof that Jesus has already paid for all sin and for all of it's consequences! '"Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father Who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.'YOUR KINGDOM COME. YOUR WILL BE DONE, ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.'Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.'And do not lead us into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]"' [Matthew 6:9-13]
[For more on proving His good will, read Thoughts on the New Birth, God isn't Holding Back 2, and Liar, Liar, Pants Definitely on Fire! I'm sure there are other references, but these are good for a start...]
He needs us to manifest His finished work in Jesus. And the system He put into place for us to do this is the Name of Jesus, the Blood of Jesus, answered prayer, the confession of His Word and the power of words over the natural, physical world. Not to mention the indwelling Father...
Think About This
According to the Holy Spirit, writing through Paul, we died with Jesus, were buried with Him, were raised up together with Him and seated with Him in heavenly places. [Ephesians 2:6]
According to the Holy Spirit, writing through Paul, we died with Jesus, were buried with Him, were raised up together with Him and seated with Him in heavenly places. [Ephesians 2:6]
And we were born again...one Spirit with Him, God-inside.
So ask yourselves the question...just who is being hindered by the enemy?
If Jesus said it was the Father in Him doing the works [John 5:20], and we'd do greater works than He did because He was going to the Father [John 14:12]...WHO IS BEING PERSECUTED BY THE ENEMY?
When Paul was persecuting Christians, when Jesus stopped him on the road Damascus, what did He ask him?
'"Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting ME?"' [Acts 9:3]
Don't you see? We are ONE with Him, His Body, full of God the Father, God and Son and God the Holy Spirit. That other sinner that used to live in this earthen vessel WAS CRUCIFIED 2000 years ago, and to be technically accurate, from the FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD!!!
'...knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin...' [Romans 6:6]'"I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me."' [Galatians 2:20]
So, I'll ask again...WHO IS BEING HINDERED IN THE EARTH?
Satan knows all of this, people! He's effectively stopping the Body from doing the works of Jesus in the earth, even though we've been given authority over all his power! If we can't move neither can God!
That's the primary reason He needs us free, so He can work unencumbered through us, via Ephesians 3!
'For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with POWER through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;'...and that you, being rooted and grounded in LOVE, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST which surpasses knowledge, THAT YOU MAY BE FILLED UP TO ALL THE FULLNESS OF GOD,'Now to HIM who is able to do FAR MORE ABUNDANTLY BEYOND ALL THAT WE ASK OR THINK, according to the POWER THAT WORKS WITHIN US, to Him be the GLORY IN THE CHURCH and IN CHRIST JESUS to all generations forever and ever. Amen.' [Ephesians 3:14-21]
And we have this treasure in earthen vessels...why? So that the SURPASSING GREATNESS OF THE POWER WILL BE OF GOD and not of ourselves... [2 Corinthians 4:7]
His Will
He wants us free because He loves us and He has already paid the price for our total freedom...health, wealth, well-being, angelic protection, peace, joy.
He wants us free because He loves us and He has already paid the price for our total freedom...health, wealth, well-being, angelic protection, peace, joy.
He needs us free so that the greatness of His power can be seen in the earth!
It is His purpose that His power and love be demonstrated through the Body of Jesus, just like it was shown through the Man Jesus when He walked on the earth.
He has already spoken that the kingdom of this world must become the kingdom of our Christ, so we know that this is His will...
'Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven WILL BE GIVEN the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and ALL THE DOMINIONS WILL SERVE AND OBEY HIM.' [DANIEL 7:27]'Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, " The kingdom of the world HAS BECOME the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever." [Revelation 11:15'Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "NOW the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the AUTHORITY OF HIS CHRIST HAVE COME, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night.' [Revelation 12:10]
...and we know that Jesus preached the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM! [I just saw this yesterday...Hallelujah!]
'Jesus was going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people.' [Matthew 4:23]'"This GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come."' [Matthew 24:14]
Okay, Get To The Point
The point is that God wants you totally free in every area of your life more than you do. You don't have to beg...it's already yours!
The point is that God wants you totally free in every area of your life more than you do. You don't have to beg...it's already yours!
'This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.' [1 John 5:14,15]
'"Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom."' [Luke 12:32]
'For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.' [Romans 11:36]
'For all things belong to you, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come; all things belong to you, and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.' [1 Corinthians 3:21-23]
And in some cases, you don't even need to ask! Jesus plainly told us to speak to natural, physical things...
'And Jesus answered saying to them, "Have faith in God. "TRULY I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but BELIEVES THAT WHAT HE SAYS IS GOING TO HAPPEN, it will be granted him. Therefore I say to you, ALL THINGS for which you pray and ask, BELIEVE YOU HAVE RECEIVED THEM, and they will be granted you.' [Mark 11:22-24]
Praise the Lord! It is finished! [...and I mean that in more ways than one!]
It is time to reign in life through the One, Christ Jesus. [Romans 5:17]
