Today, we continue our series entitled “Living the Grace Life,” where we will learn to embrace and walk in God’s unmerited, unearned, and often undeserved favor throughout 2025.
As part of this series, I am teaching you how to pray from a position of God’s grace.
Key scriptures for this year:
2 Corinthians? ?9?:?8? ?TPT??
“Yes, God is more than ready to overwhelm you with every form of grace, so that you will have more than enough of everything—every moment and in every way. He will make you overflow with abundance in every good thing you do.”
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??Galatians? ?5?:?4? ?TPT??
“If you want to be made right with God by fulfilling the obligations of the law, you have cut off more than your flesh—you have cut yourselves off from Christ and have fallen away from the revelation of grace!”
Romans? ?6?:?14? ?ERV??
“Sin will not be your master, because you are not under law. You now live under God’s grace.”
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1 Corinthians? ?15?:?10? ?NIV??
“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.”
Additional Scriptures for today:
Ephesians 3:20 TPT
“Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you.”
Proverbs 29:18 KJV
“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”
Habakkuk 2:2-3 NIV
“Then the Lord replied: ‘Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.'”
Setting the Stage:
We’ve spent weeks learning about grace-based prayer, discovering that it’s about accessing what’s already done rather than begging God to act. But there’s a critical element we haven’t fully explored: How do we know WHAT to pray for? How do we align our prayers with God’s specific plan for our lives?
The answer lies in vision—God’s preferred future for you. When God gives you a mental picture of His desired outcome for your life, that vision becomes the foundation for your grace-based prayers. You’re not making up what to pray for; you’re praying what God has revealed to you.
Today, we’ll discover how vision and grace work together to create powerful, targeted prayers that align with heaven’s blueprint for your destiny.
So, what does this mean to you today? A few things.
1. Vision Is Your Mental Picture of God’s Preferred Future.
Grace-based prayer requires you to see what God sees—His preferred future for your life that He’s already established in the spiritual realm.
How this applies to you:
— Vision is not something you create; it’s something you’re created for. It is God revealing to you what He birthed you to do and why He sent you to this planet at just the right time. Once God opens your eyes to this spiritual sight, what he reveals becomes the content of your prayers.
— Sight allows you to see the limitations of this present world, but vision allows you to see what God planned, unencumbered by the limits of humanity. When you pray from grace, you’re not praying based on what your eyes see, but on what your spirit perceives.
— Vision shows you tomorrow, while sight only shows you today. Grace-based prayer operates from tomorrow’s victory rather than today’s struggle.
— God’s vision for your life is specific, not general. He doesn’t just want you generally “blessed“—He has detailed plans that require detailed prayers.
— When God gives you vision, He’s inviting you into partnership. He shows you the destination, then expects you to pray for the manifestation of it.
— The vision God imparts becomes the foundation for your prayer life. Instead of random requests, you’re praying targeted prayers based on revealed truth.
— Vision is what separates wishful thinking from faith-filled praying. You’re not hoping something might happen—you’re declaring what God has already shown you, and you know it is only a matter of time before you see (in your hands) what God revealed (in your heart).
2. Accomplishing God’s Vision Requires Becoming Your Best Self.
Grace doesn’t just change your circumstances—it transforms you into the person capable of stewarding God’s vision. This is what discipleship is all about.
How this applies to you:
— Doing your best work isn’t enough—you must become your best self. Vision requires you to develop character, not just acquire skills. God is more concerned with who you are than what you do.
— God often reveals the destination before revealing the process of preparation process. In other words, God will show you your Canaan, but He will conveniently leave out the wilderness. I am convinced that if God showed us the pain required to become who we are called to be, most would run the other way.
— Grace provides both the vision to see and the power to change into the person you need to become in order to fulfill what God revealed. You don’t have to become worthy of the vision—grace makes you ready, and Jesus made you worthy.
— God’s vision reveals not just where you’re going, but who you must become. Prayer aligns you with both the destination and the transformation.
— Every battle you face is one you’re prepared for. God knows which battles would send you backward, so He only allows the ones that move you forward. You have the grace for it!
3. Grace-Based Prayer Looks Inward Before Looking Upward.
True vision requires the ability to see in as well as out, dealing with blind spots that could sabotage your destiny.
How this applies to you:
— Spiritual formation requires internal vision. You need to see what God sees about your inner life, not just your outer circumstances.
— Grace reveals what self-examination cannot. Only God’s light can expose the hidden things that hinder your progress. You may be intentional about introspection, but there are some things you will not see, unless the Lord brings them to your attention. He can do this directly or through someone else.
— Prayer becomes a mirror when approached from grace. It shows you not just what to pray for, but what to pray about in and for yourself.
— Internal vision leads to intentional change. When God shows you a blind spot, He also provides the power to change that area. This is a powerful aspect of His grace. He does this because He wants YOU more than what He called you to do! The person is more important than the purpose they are called to.
— Becoming your best self is a grace project, not a self-improvement program. Let grace do what willpower cannot. Die to self, yield to God, and fully embrace His grace. Living this way, you will change as God lives THROUGH you.
4. Living FROM Vision Transforms Prayer INTO Reality.
When you pray from God’s revealed vision rather than from current circumstances, your prayers become prophetic declarations that manifest your God-given destiny.
How this applies to you:
— Pray FROM your vision, not TOWARD it. You’re not asking God to create something new—you’re declaring what He’s already shown you.
— Vision-based prayer speaks to mountains, not about them. You command circumstances to align with God’s revealed future.
— Your prayers become prophecies when rooted in vision. You’re not hoping; you’re declaring what shall be because God has revealed to you what His best is.
— Faith bridges the gap between vision and manifestation. Your prayers are the bridge that brings tomorrow’s promise into today’s reality. Your faith lays hold of God’s grace.
— Living from vision means acting like it’s already done. Your prayers, decisions, and actions all flow from God’s preferred future, not present problems. In other words, the UNSEEN realm becomes more real to you than what you see with your natural eyes.
— Vision creates urgency in prayer. When you see what God sees, you can’t help but pray with passion and persistence.
— Your vision becomes your confession. Every prayer aligns with God’s revealed future until the earth looks like what heaven has shown you. The earth just needs to catch up with heaven!!!
Closing thoughts on praying from vision:
Here’s what I need you to understand: Grace-based prayer without vision is like having a key without knowing which door to open. God doesn’t just want you praying randomly—He wants you praying strategically, based on the specific future He’s designed for you.
This is how God works. He gives you a vision of your preferred future, then uses the journey to prepare you for it. Your job is to keep praying FROM that vision, even when circumstances seem contrary to it.
When God gives you a vision—whether it’s for your family, your business, your ministry, or your personal life—that vision becomes your prayer assignment. You don’t pray for God to decide what to do; you pray for His revealed will to manifest.
Stop praying like you’re uncertain about God’s will. If He’s given you vision, He’s revealed His will. Now pray like it’s already done, because in heaven’s reality, it is.
That’s the difference between religious prayer and grace-based prayer. Religion prays, hoping God might do something. Grace prays knowing God has already shown you what He will do. You’re just agreeing with heaven’s vision for your life.
That’s enough for today.
Declaration of Faith:
Father, I thank You for Your amazing grace.
You have given me the ability to pray with vision, without a doubt, without wavering.
You’ve given me a mental picture of the future that You prefer, and I am praying that.
I acknowledge that Your vision requires me to become my best self so that I can steward the gift of the calling.
So I look inward before I look upward, and Your vision is pulling me into the future that You called me to have.
I’m praying FROM vision, not TOWARD it. It is my present reality, even though it hasn’t shown up yet in the natural.
I am living that way. I pray FROM victory and not FROM struggle.
I am living THE GRACE LIFE in 2025, and GREATER IS COMING FOR ME!
I declare this by faith, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
This is Today’s Word! Apply it and prosper!
