God’s Economy in Faith
Message Three
Praying with God as Our Faith
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
Mark 11:22-24 And Jesus answered and said to them, Have faith in God. Truly I say to you that 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 happens, he will have it…All things that you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and you will have them.
Matt. 18:18 …Whatever you bind on the earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on the earth shall have been loosed in heaven.
Word of Appetizer
How do we need to pray with God as our faith?
When the praying one is mingled with God and is one with God, God becomes his faith; this is what it means to have faith in God.
If we pray according to God’s will for the fulfillment of His economy, we are one with God and have the assurance that we have received what we have prayed for. If we ask the Lord for things that satisfy our desire, we can never have the faith in God to believe that we have received what we asked for; if we are absolutely one with God, we can have God as our faith and pray according to the knowledge of God’s will for the fulfillment of His economy, and we will believe that we have already received the things that we asked for and will receive them.
Spiritual Burden
The prayer in Mark 11:20-24 is a prayer with authority; The most important prayer and the most spiritual prayer is the prayer of authority. A prayer with authority is not asking God directly; rather, it is dealing with problems by directly applying God’s authority. This kind of prayer is directed not toward God but toward “this mountain.” The most important work of the overcomers is to bring the authority of the throne to earth; if we want to be an overcomer, we must learn to pray with authority and speak to the mountain.
CONCLUDING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
The Revelation of the Truth
In order to pray with God as our faith, we need to know the meaning of prayer.
In cursing the fig tree, a symbol of the nation of Israel, so that it dried up, the Lord Jesus taught His disciples to pray by faith.
We need to pray with God as our faith.
The prayer in Mark 11:20-24 is a prayer with authority.
The Experience of Life
Rom. 8:26-27 …In like manner the Spirit also joins in to help us in our weakness, for we do not know for what we should pray as is fitting, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us…But He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to God.
The more we pray, the more we will be filled with God and the more we will surrender to God and be gained by Him. To pray means to realize that we are nothing and that we can do nothing.
Prayer brings us into God; the issue of proper prayer is that we find ourselves in God.
Practice and Application
We need to pray with God as our faith; We need to have faith in God without doubting, but believing that he has received what he asked for, and he will receive it. If we are absolutely one with God, we can have God as our faith and pray according to the knowledge of God’s will for the fulfillment of His economy, and we will believe that we have already received the things that we asked for and will receive them.
Every overcomer must learn to speak to “this mountain”; God has commissioned us to command what He has commanded and give orders to what He has given orders to. A prayer with authority is not asking God directly; rather, it is dealing with problems by directly applying God’s authority.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 Prayer is the mutual contact between man and God (Matt. 6:9-10; Jude 20)
(Please illustrate that what is the meaning of prayer?)
T2 God create[d] a spirit for man so that man could contact Him and receive Him (Gen. 1:26; 2:7)
(Please illustrate which two steps of preparation that God made when God created man to be His vessel.)
Day 2
T1 While you are breathing in God, spontaneously you are obtaining God (Eph. 6:18)
(Please illustrate that a real prayer is also man breathing in God just as he breathes in air.)
T2 Prayed in prayer (James 5:17)
(Please illustrate that a
real prayer is the Christ who indwells us praying to the Christ who is sitting on the throne.)
Day 3
T1 God’s economy is to be accomplished by His faithful people doing His will ( Eph. 1:5a; Rev. 4:11)
(Please illustrate that doing God’s will is that His great will for the accomplishment of His economy.)
T2 The Lord Jesus taught His disciples to pray by faith (Matt. 21:21-22)
(Please illustrate that the Lord Jesus cursed the fig tree was according to His knowledge of God’s will in the fulfillment of God’s economy.)
Day 4
T1 Whenever our faith is in the future, it is not faith but hope (Mark 11:24)
(Please illustrate that the way to believe is not that we will receive but that we already have received.)
T2 A living faith is to believe that you have already received (Mark 11:24)
(Please illustrate with experiences that to many people, faith is merely a mental consent; it is not a genuine believing in the heart.)
Day 5
T1 A prayer of authority (Matt. 18:18; Isa. 45:11)
(Please illustrate that a prayer of authority is a commanding prayer.)
T2 Commanding prayer began from the time the Lord ascended to the heavenlies (Eph. 1:20-22)
(Please illustrate that ascension is very much related to our Christian life.)
Day 6
T1 A prayer with authority is one in which we tell the things that are frustrating us to go away (Mark 11:23-24)
(Please illustrate that a prayer with authority is not asking God directly; rather, it is dealing with problems by directly applying God’s authority.)
T2 Only after one knows to pray with authority will he know what prayer is (Mark 11:23-24)
(Please illustrate that prayer with authority has much to do with the overcomers.)
