Would you ever think of yourself as a prophet, priest or a king?? Part 1 of “Listening Prayer”

A while back, I was very fortunate to sit under an amazing teacher, Ann Kramer, and learn some powerful lessons in spiritual warfare, that I never even knew existed! These teachings radically transformed my prayer life, with the result being that it radically changed my life as I had known it up to that point.

At the end of this year, I was given the privilege to teach this same message that so impacted me, to a group of amazing women. Seeing the spark of revelation in their eyes as they were exposed to this truth was so fantastic to watch. So much so, that I want to pass this message along to EVERYONE that has ears to hear…

Did you know that you are called by God to rule here on earth as a prophet, priest and king through Jesus Christ? You may say, “what is she talking about?” Well…I am glad you asked!

What I am about to share with you may seem so familiar, yet, in that famliarity, don’t miss some very important keys.

 

As children of God, we represent Jesus to man by the same pattern that Jesus’ ministry on earth represented God to man. The Father sent Jesus, and we are SENT by JESUS as well. John 20:21, “Jesus said to his disciples, “Just as the FATHER has SENT me forth, so I am SENDING YOU.” The emphasis in NOT on the SENT one, but the SENDER! Jesus’ ministry manifested in three ways: He was a PROPHET, He was a PRIEST and He was a KING.

Our 1st and most important thing is to step into our place as a prophet. I do not mean the “call of a Prophet,” or the “mantle of a Prophet”. When I say as a sent one, the prophet goes as a representative of Jesus. A prophet only represents what he hears and sees! So, I simply mean one that hears the Father and hears what He is saying and sees what He is doing. So, he represents what he hears and sees the Father say and do in any given situation. This means, whatever you are facing in life, as you are releasing what you are seeing and hearing the Father tell you to release, you are bring into your situation the representation of Heaven, or God! When you do that, everything that is contrary to His will and representation MUST change according to what His will is! It must bow it’s knee!

Back to more of what I mean when I am talking here about “prophet”…the word of God says that “His children KNOW and HEAR His voice and the voice of a stranger they will not follow.” So, in this sense, when I am talking about our role as a prophet, I mean simply one that hears the Lord. See, it is in that secret place, in our prayer time when we NEED to LISTEN to HEAR what our Heavenly Father is telling us, what HE wants us to pray or release in whatever situation we are facing. We should not just go in prayer and start praying whatever we “see” happening in the natural. We do not pray the PROBLEM! He will always have us pray the solution. The solution may be 99% of the time, by FAITH. Faith is NOT SEEN in the natural, it is in the spiritual realm.

So, we need to 1st go in that prayer as prophets, so as ones that are there to LISTEN and hear and see what HE wants us to release and pray. He knows the end from the beginning! He sees the entire picture, the things we don’t see, and therefore, as He tells us what to pray and release, and we DO IT, you better believe that it will HIT THE MARK!

A lot of times our prayers are like loading a shot gun and shooting it – and there are all these little pellets that go everywhere, and we are hoping that at least just one of them will “hit the mark”. When we are praying out of our own perspective – not from what we have heard, not out of a “LISTENING PRAYER” or as a prophet – but what we see in the natural, or what we THINK we should pray from our own understanding, we are hoping that maybe just one word we pray will hit the mark of whatever we are going through!

BUT when we come out of the place of a prophet – meaning one that hears, or “LISTENING PRAYER” it is like we are shooting a RIFLE! We aim according to what we heard from our heavenly Father, we aim from HIS directions, according to what He wants us to release in prayer, and as we do, it will HIT THAT TARGET with one bullet! ONE word prayed that we heard our heavenly Daddy tell us to release will HIT the mark, and will take the place of all of our hours in prayer according to OUR understanding and human intellect. Prayer is NOT “God, this is what I see, and this is what I want You to do about it.” BUT prayer IS, “God, what do YOU see, and what do You want me to pray or do about it?”

Stay tuned for the next installment : )…..