John 15:7--If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. If ye abide in Me---When we make being in His presence a priority in our lives, supernatural things will begin to happen. After all, He IS a supernatural, beyond the normal, way past all we can figure out, God. I'm not talking about your 2 minute "Now I lay me down to sleep" prayers. I am talking about waiting on His presence until you know that He loves you and that He is walking with you. Train your spirit to reach out to His throughout the day and every day. Change your thought patterns throughout the day. Instead of thinking about things that constantly irritate, TRAIN your spirit to seek HIM throughout the day. Train your mind and spirit to sing a worship song or a hymn of praise. This is foreign to the natural way of living. But, we are not seeking for a NATURAL turn of events in our lives, we are looking for the SUPERNATURAL. A branch will wither and die without the flowing of nutrients from the vine. Even so, without a flowing of His Presence within us on an everyday, ongoing manner, we will produce NOTHING,
TRAIN your mind to meditate on the Word of God instead of what it looks like around you. Meditate on the scripture that deals with particular circumstances. "My needs are met according to Your riches. By your stripes I am healed. I can do all things through Christ. Jesus came to seek and save the lost. He loves me. He loves my children. He loves my spouse." Over and over and over---abide in His Word. This is a training exercise. Babies don't naturally worry. That's why they are all the time smiling. You are the one that teaches them to worry by your actions pounded into them on a daily basis. The Word of God never deals in worry. Jesus said that He would live by every Word that proceeded out of God's mouth. That's why He could face the cross with confidence and patience. God's Word was His first priority. He had trained Himself to ONLY think in line with God's Word. Because He had trained Himself to think ONLY in line with God's Word, it ONLY seemed normal and natural for Him to expect God to raise Him up the third day----because that is what God said. As we continually meditate on what He has already promised, that Spirit-breathed Word begins to change our inner man into His likeness----the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Listen to Proverbs 28:1-The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. What is God's description of a righteous man? God said that Abraham was a righteous man because---ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD.
As you train your spirit to walk as much as you can in His presence, as you train your mind to constantly meditate on His Word-----Jesus gave us a fantastic and wonderful promise. ---Ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.--- Here's a different way to say John 15:7--If YOU make My presence your main priority and YOU make My Word your constant thinking process--then you will PRAY anything and it SHALL BE DONE FOR YOU. In John 15:5, He said that without Him we could DO nothing. So, in verse 7, you would have expected Him to say that if we lived in Him and meditated on His Word that WE COULD DO stuff. But, that's not what He said. Hang on, saint, hang on and LISTEN. Listen inside to what He said. He did not promise that we could do stuff------He said that stuff WOULD BE DONE FOR US. Can you hear Him? When we put His presence and His Word as our MAIN priority, He puts ANSWERING OUR PRAYERS ---HIS-- main priority. PLUS, He said ASK WHAT YOU WANT TO.
When God came to Abraham and told him of His plan to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham changed God's mind by asking what he (Abraham) wanted. Even though there were not ten righteous people to be found, GOD AGREED WITH ABRAHAM and promised to spare the cities. God got so-o-o-o mad at the Hebrews that came out of bondage that He told Moses to step back because He was fixing to destroy the whole nation and raise up a new nation after Moses. What was God's Word and Will? It was to destroy them right then and there. But, Moses PRAYED. Remember, he had spent time WITH God and had already proven that he believed God more than what he saw or knew. When God said step back, His friend, Moses, stepped up. Moses TOLD God not to blot them out and that if He did to blot himself out also. Moses prayed and it was done for him. When Joshua spent time in God's presence and believed God's Word, he too asked for something out of the ordinary. He was busy fighting a battle and was winning but the sun was going down. The sun was supposed to. That's the way God created it. It was the normal process that had gone on for over a thousand years. We would have advised Joshua to "Get over it." But, NO. Joshua "commanded the sun and the moon to stand still." Hey, wait a minute, Joshua. That's a God thing--the sun not going down. Are you getting it? Joshua had God's will way down in his heart and Joshua prayed what Joshua wanted. He wanted to finish the job that God gave him to do. GOD HAD RESPECT TO JOSHUA'S REQUEST. If ye abide in me and My Words abide in you, then go ahead and pray whatever you want and IT SHALL BE DONE FOR YOU.
Jesus turned the water into wine, why? Because He wanted to. Jesus multiplied the bread and fish on two occasions, why? Because He wanted to. Jesus, his disciples and men and women on down through the ages have done great and miraculous things, why? Because they made His presence and His Word their Number One priority. And in return, God made their Prayer request, His Number One priority. My friends, 2 Chronicles 7:14 says that when we humble ourselves and pray, a great miracle happens, our sins are forgiven and our land is healed. Let's abide in Him and abide in His Word until God answers our prayer for healing for this nation and for the world.
Good praying my friends.
Love, Henry
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