Sunday, August 15, 2010

Praying when we should be speaking

There are many things in our life that the Lord has already taken care of for us. Yet, most of us spend hours, days, weeks, even months or years praying for these things. There are some things that the Lord expects us to deal with now that He has taken care of them. When Ezekiel visited the valley of dry bones (Ezekiel 37)the Lord did not tell him to pray and ask Him to put the bones back together. Rather, the Lord told Ezekiel to prophesy directly to the bones and later to the wind. In the same fashion, in Mark 11:23, Jesus instructs us to speak directly to mountains. Yet, we spend our time praying and asking God to fix things that He has already fixed. It is time that we as believers realize our place as the children of God and declare the things that He has done for us. It is time that we quit asking for blessings and declare (speak) that we have the blessings of Abraham (Galatians 3:29).