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    Don’t Allow People To Change You

    by Rick November 29, 2018
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    (1 Samuel 18:12 NLT) Saul was then afraid of David, for the LORD was with David and had turned away from Saul.   This morning I continue our series entitled, “Standing on…

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    Word for the Long-Haul

    by Rick June 21, 2018
    by Rick June 21, 2018

    Today we continue our new series entitled, “Expecting the Word to Work!”  This is part 14.     We have been looking at the Parable of the Sower.  For the past few…

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    Getting Your Praise Back!

    by Rick May 29, 2018
    by Rick May 29, 2018

    Today we continue our series entitled, “Back to the Bible,” with Part 55.  We have been looking at Psalm 119.  Let’s continue to walk through this amazing psalm.     David said:…

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    God and Morality

    by Rick April 25, 2018
    by Rick April 25, 2018

    Today we continue our series entitled, “Back to the Bible,” with Part 34.  We have been looking at Psalm 119.  Let’s continue to walk through this amazing psalm.  Today we will look…

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    Obedience and Praise

    by Rick April 12, 2018
    by Rick April 12, 2018

    Today we continue our series entitled, “Back to the Bible,” with Part 25.  We have been looking at Psalm 119.  Let’s continue to walk through this amazing psalm.   David said: (v.59)…

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    Truth and Criticism

    by Rick April 4, 2018
    by Rick April 4, 2018

    Today we continue our series entitled, “Back to the Bible,” with Part 21.  We have been looking at Psalm 119.  Today we will look at verses 37-39 from The Passion Bible Translation…

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    Preach To Yourself!

    by Rick March 20, 2018
    by Rick March 20, 2018

    Today we continue our series entitled, “Back to the Bible,” with Part 16.  We have been looking at Psalm 119.  Today we will look at verses 13-16 from The Passion Bible Translation…

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    Grounded and Graced

    by Rick March 13, 2018
    by Rick March 13, 2018

    Today we continue our series entitled, “Back to the Bible,” with Part 12.  Yesterday I was meditating on Psalm 119 because that is what I am going to teach from today and…

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    I Have Hidden Your Word in My Heart

    by Rick February 27, 2018
    by Rick February 27, 2018

    Today we continue our series entitled, “Back to the Bible,” with Part 2: Hiding God’s Word in our heart.  I am very excited about this series.  The response I received yesterday was…

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    New Series: Back to the Bible

    by Rick February 26, 2018
    by Rick February 26, 2018

    At the beginning of each year I share with you whatever theme the Father gives me for the year.  The theme for this year is, “Year of Expectation.”  This year the Father…

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Learning to pray from the Apostle Paul. (Colossia Learning to pray from the Apostle Paul.

(Colossians 1:3-11 ERV)

1.  Pray to know what God wants to do in/with/through your life.
a)  Paul prayed, “That God will make you completely sure of what he wants.”
b)  There is nothing more powerful than a man or woman who is completely clear about God’s assignment for their lives and who is accessing the grace for that assignment with their faith.

2.  Pray to access God’s wisdom and spiritual understanding.
a)  Paul prayed that God would give you “all the wisdom and spiritual understanding you need.”
b)  God has already made His wisdom and spiritual understanding available to you, by His grace.  When you pray in faith, you access God’s grace to know His plans.

3.  Pray to access the grace to live a life that is pleasing in God’s sight.
a)  Paul explained that hearing from God will “help you live in a way that brings honor to the Lord and pleases him in every way.”
b)  Your goal every day should be to do whatever God wants you to do that day.

4.  Pray to access the grace to produce good works of every kind.
a)  Paul prayed, “That your life will produce good works of every kind.”
b)  You can pray for your life to produce good works because God does not require you to come up with the power to perform the good works.  God has already made His power (or grace) available to you to do all He has called you to do.

5.  Pray for God to strengthen you with His supernatural power.
a)  Paul prayed, “That God will strengthen you with his own great power.”
b)  Whatever God expects you to do, He has already equipped you to do, by His grace.

6.  Pray to access the grace to keep going when troubles come.
a)  Paul prayed, “That you will be patient and not give up when troubles come.”
b)  You will not accomplish great things for God without facing and overcoming opposition.
c)  The greater the assignment from God, the greater the attack from satan.
d)  God’s grace is on you to KEEP GOING!  Tap into it.  You need it.  Trouble will come, but when you tap into God’s grace and keep going, you trouble your trouble, and you are not troubled by it!

#TheGraceLife
#NewLevels
#GreaterIsComing
Ephesians 1:15-20 1. Paul prayed for divine ins Ephesians 1:15-20 

1.  Paul prayed for divine insight from the Holy Spirit.
a)  Paul asked God to open their minds to see the truth of what He had already provided. 
b)  Paul was basically asking God to lead the believers, through His Holy Spirit, so they would know what to pray for and what to pursue.
c)  The Holy Spirit can tell you what to pray for.. When you ask for what God already provided (which is what is stored up for you to complete your purpose), your prayers get answered because you are praying in accordance with God’s will for your life.

2.  Paul prayed that they would know the hope God had already chosen for them to have.
a)  Paul was not praying for God to give them whatever they hoped for.  Remember, God is not in the business of fulfilling our selfish desires.  Paul was praying that they would know the hope God had already provided for them, by His grace.
b)  You can come up with things to ask God for and then hope He gives them to you.  Many people do this.  This is basically “hoping and wishing,” but it is not faith.  Faith begins where the will of God is known.  When you ask God to reveal to you what is already yours -- meaning, what He has already provided by His unearned grace -- you can then pray in FAITH to receive it.

3.  Paul prayed that they would know the blessings God has promised His holy people are rich and glorious.
a)  Paul wanted the believers to know how glorious God’s promises truly are. 
b)  When you get a revelation/understanding of God, of what He has done for you, and of what He plans to do through your life, you won’t be able to restrain your divine hope.  You will live each day with an expectation of the manifestation of the promises God has made you.  This is an amazing way to live!

4.  Paul prayed that they would know God’s power is available to them.
a)  Paul wanted the believers to know that God’s power is freely available to them - the same power that raised Jesus from the dead.
b)  When you understand that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is freely available to you, it changes the way you see challenges, and it changes the way you pray.
c)  Nothing is impossible for him who believes (Mark 9:23).
Daily Declarations! Declaration of Faith to LEVEL Daily Declarations!

Declaration of Faith to LEVEL UP Your Prayer Life

Father, I thank You for teaching me to pray from a position of grace.  You made plans for me before the world began.  You made those plans by Your unearned grace.  I had nothing to do with it.  My success in life is tied to those plans.  You now freely reveal to me all You planned to do in, with, and through my life.  As I die to self and You reveal Your plans to me, I can live my life with complete confidence, knowing why I am here and what I was born to do.  You give me wisdom and spiritual understanding so I can live a life that is pleasing in Your sight.  As I walk with You and You walk with me, You produce good works of every kind, in me and through me, for Your glory.  Trouble will come, but it cannot stop me.  I press through every challenge, and I overcome every attack.  I don’t do this with my power.  I do it with Your great power, which is freely made available to me by Your grace.  Your power flowing through me equips, enables, and empowers me, as You employ me to be Your emissary in the earth.  So as I enter into this day, I declare that You speak through my vocal cords, think through my mind, and operate through my limbs.  As Jesus is, so am I in this world.  I LEVEL UP in 2021, and I know GREATER IS COMING FOR ME!  I declare this by faith.  In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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As we honor the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin As we honor the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., @isabellainspire and I, and our team at RIPMinistries, would like to share a few quick thoughts with you:

-- See this as a "Day ON" and not a "Day OFF," so do something, on purpose, to honor the contribution Dr. King made.

-- Remember that he was a Man of God.  God used Dr. King as a vessel for His purpose and His glory on this planet.  By honoring Dr. King, you are also honoring God.

-- Pray for racial reconciliation in the United States.  The racial turmoil our nation has faced over the last year, or so, has exposed a level of bitterness and hatred in the hearts of men that we must pray against.

-- Pray for a peaceful transfer of power this week.  One of the basic tenets of this great nation is the peaceful transfer of power.  As President Trump transitions out and Present-elect Biden transitions in, please pray for peace, hope, and progress.

#GodBlessAmerica 
#Unity
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#Progress
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#Hope
#Love
#TheGraceLife
“There is a difference between an inheritance an “There is a difference between an inheritance and a harvest.  Harvest comes because of what I do.  Inheritance comes because of WHO I AM!” - Apostle Cynthia Brazelton

— We are heirs and joint heirs with Jesus
— Jesus qualified us!
— We are qualified... not because of what we do or what we fail to do... we are qualified because of what Jesus did for us!
— Some things come as a result of what we do (sowing and reaping, seed time and harvest, cause and effect), but many things come to us simply because of what Jesus did FOR US!  That is our inheritance!!!!
— Inherticane is not based on SEED, it is based on IDENTITY! 

#IAmQualifed 
#JesusQualifedMe
#LevelUp2021
Daily Declarations! Declaration of Faith to Pray Daily Declarations!

Declaration of Faith to Pray in Accordance with God’s GRACE Towards You

Father, I thank You for Your amazing grace towards me.  I also thank You for teaching me to pray from a position of grace.  You made plans for me before the world began and I am now simply seeking to FIND, FOLLOW, and FINISH those plans.  You honor my decisions, so I thank You for giving me the grace to make good ones.  You bless me to discern what is truly important and You have also graced me to be disciplined enough to choose only those things that are pleasing in Your sight.  You started a great work IN me and I am confident You will finish what You started.  The more I die to self, the more I grow in Your love, and the more I become a conduit of Your glory in the earth.  I was born to make a difference.  I am here for a reason.  You brought me into the world to leave a mark that will not be erased.  And I declare that I will leave that mark.  Not by my strength, but by Your grace.  Not for my fame, but for Your glory.  Not by pursuing my will, but by pursuing Your purpose.  I die to me, You live through me, and You produce much fruit in and through my life.  Not just fruit, but much fruit, and my fruit will remain.  Greater is coming for me!  I declare this by faith.  In Jesus’ name.  Amen.

#DailyDeclarations
#NewLevels 
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Learn to pray from the way Paul prayed in Ephesian Learn to pray from the way Paul prayed in Ephesians 1

Paul did not pray for God to give them whatever they wanted.

a)  Paul was praying for them to want what God had already provided for them by grace.

b)  When you pray, you are not ordering God around, and God is not serving you like a waiter. 

c)  Productive prayers are prayers that are prayed from a position of death-to-self.

d)  When you yield your will to God, and you fully open your heart to receive all He has already provided, you can then use your faith to access His grace, through prayer.  At that point, you are not praying for what you want.  You want what God wants for you!

e)  A major key to effective prayer is building up a desire for what God already desires for you!

f)  In Paul’s prayer, we see that God is looking for us to AGREE with what He has already DECIDED and DESIRES for us!

g)  God has already made plans for you for 2021.  Your job is to find out what those plans are, to submit/surrender to God’s will, and to then pray in faith to access God’s grace for His best to manifest in your life this year.  This is how you will LEVEL UP!

h)  To LEVEL UP in life, you must LEVEL UP in prayer!

*** My prayer for you is that this year would be the best year of your life.  But it will not come with more trying... it will come with more DYING!  Dying to self is how you will access God’s Grace to walk in NEW LEVELS in this season!

#TheGraceLife
#NewLevels
#GreaterIsComing
Daily Declarations! Declaration of Faith to Level Daily Declarations!

Declaration of Faith to Level Up Your Prayer Life this Year!

Father, I thank You for showering me with Your amazing grace.  I also thank You for teaching me to pray and to pray from a position of grace.  I see what You did in and through Jesus by Your rich grace.  You made plans for Him before the world began.  You already knew what Adam would do, and You had a plan to redeem humanity from everything Adam got us into. 

You made plans for Jesus, and You sent Him into the world in the fullness of Your timing.  I am just like Jesus.  As Jesus is, so am I in this world.  You made plans for me before the world began.  You sent me to this planet at just the right time.  You have given me an assignment and the grace to fulfill it.  I will accomplish all I was born to achieve, by Your grace, for Your glory. 

When I pray, I pray from a position of grace, with my full confidence in You, to bring to pass all You planned to do through me, in the earth, as it is in heaven.  This is a season of NEW LEVELS because You have declared it to be.  Since this is what You decided and what You desire, I choose to want what You want and to receive what You have already provided.  I LEVEL UP in 2021!  GREATER IS COMING for me!  I declare this by faith.  In Jesus’ name.  Amen!

#DailyDeclarations
#NewLevels 
#GreaterIsComing
#TheGraceLife
Pray from God’s Point of View: 1. When you pra Pray from God’s Point of View:

1.  When you pray from the position of grace, you are praying from God’s perspective of you.

a)  Don’t pray as if God doesn’t already know what you are facing.  It’s not news to God.

b)  Don’t pray as if God hasn’t already equipped you to face and overcome every challenge.  He has already given you the grace for it.

c)  Don’t pray as if God is not in the fight with you.  Don’t ask Him to come.  His Word promises that He is already there.  You are never in a fight that God is not in with you.

d)  Don’t pray as if what you are facing is going to destroy you.  When you do this, you show God you have no faith, no trust, and no confidence in Him or the plans He made for you before the world began.

e)  When you pray from a position of grace, you are praying from God’s perspective.  When you pray this way, your prayers are full of faith, hope, confidence, and peace, regardless of the situation you are facing.

2.  Don’t pray from a position of NEED!

a)  If you start your prayer praying that you don’t have it and that you want God to give it to you, then you are praying from a position of need (not grace) and doubt (not faith).

b)  God deposited IN YOU everything you would ever need in this life.  He did this by His grace so that you could accomplish His Kingdom plans and purposes.

c)  Prayer is your consent/agreement with heaven, so God can do through you what He planned to do from the foundations of the world.  This is how God’s will is done on earth, as it is in heaven.

d)  God will never withhold anything from you that He planned for you to have.  However, this is why discerning God’s will for your life is so important.  Frustration sets in when you make a demand on God for something that’s not yours!

#TheGraceLife
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One of the key revelations of prayer is understand One of the key revelations of prayer is understanding how God’s will, for Him, is ALREADY DONE!

God speaks to us from the position of what I call the “Eternal Now.”

a)  When God speaks to us, He benefits from knowing everything we will do before we do it and everything He will do before He does it.  So when He speaks, He does so from the position and perspective of eternity. 

b)  When Abraham was 75 years old, and God told him that He would bless him, make his name great and make of him a great nation, I am sure Abraham did not think it would take 25 years for the promised baby to be born.  25 years is nothing to God.  1,000 years are like one day to Him (Ps 90:4). So 25 years was like a blink of an eye.  But to Abraham and Sarah, 25 years was a long time.

c)  God will speak to you like it's already done.  For Him, in eternity, it actually is because He has already seen it happen.  For you, however, attempting to live out what God said or what He allowed you to see, it is most certainly a matter of time.

d)  Every promise from God shall come to pass in the earth, in your life.  They just may not happen on your schedule.  Living by faith means you set your watch of expectation to God's clock of manifestation.

e)  God reveals glimpses of eternity to us in time so that we live our lives out (in time) with a focus on the eternal.  This is a key aspect of understanding prayer.

#TheGraceLife
#NewLevels
#GreaterIsComing
Daily Declarations! Declaration of Faith to Level Daily Declarations!

Declaration of Faith to Level Up Your Prayer Life and Experience NEW LEVELS this Year!

Father, this is a year of NEW LEVELS for me.  You have revealed to me WHO I AM.  And I am walking out Your reality for my life in times and seasons, levels and stages.  In this season of NEW LEVELS, I am ready to do what You have called me to do.  As I launch out in faith, I don’t “DO” to get You to move.  I don’t “DO” to attempt to force Your hand.  I don’t command You.  You command me!  I move because You revealed to me that You already moved.  I “DO” because, for You, it’s already done!  I provide the faith in the earth because You have already provided the grace from heaven.  This is how I lay hold of what You already planned.  This is so important that I am committed to LEVELING UP my commitment to prayer in this season.  GREATER IS COMING for me!  I declare this by faith.  In Jesus’ name.  Amen!

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Pray from a position of God’s grace. a) Praye Pray from a position of God’s grace.
 
a)  Prayer is not about you telling God what to do.  You cannot command God.  He is not your servant, it’s the other way around.  Prayer is about submission and surrender, acknowledging that there is a God and you are not Him, and then coming to that God to access His grace.

b)  When you understand God already made plans for you before the world began, and He made those plans completely by His grace, you then understand the importance of seeking God concerning what to pray for.  John said, “We can come to God with no doubts.  This means that when we ask God for things (and those things agree with what God wants for us), God cares about what we say.  He listens to us every time we ask him.  So we know that he gives us whatever we ask from him.” (1 Jn 5:14,15 ERV)

c)  Praying from a position of grace means you are praying from the position of God’s perspective and will.  You are praying for (on earth) what He has already provided (in heaven). In this way, grace-based prayers tap into supernatural power for God’s will to be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

d)  When you understand the divine authority God has given you in the earth domain, you appreciate and respect the responsibility you have to bind (prevent) and loose (permit), so the earth can agree with heaven. 

e)  When things are happening in your life that you don’t like, you must ask yourself the question, “Have I prayed about this?” “Have I invoked God’s involvement?” If not, it’s a failure on your part.  You cannot assume that just because God knows your heart, that He will do what He is whispering to you.  No, He is whispering it to you so you can OPEN YOUR MOUTH and pray in agreement with His will.  You have not, because you ask not!

f)  You have the responsibility to permit and prevent things from happening in your life with your prayers.  God will back what you pray for when you pray in alignment with His will!  In this season of new levels, it is time to LEVEL UP our prayer life! 

g)  Powerful things happen when two (or more) believers come together, in agreement, and pray the will of God, on earth, as it is in heaven. 

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Living By Faith and walking in New Levels will req Living By Faith and walking in New Levels will require a certain level of discomfort.
 
a)  To experience things you have never experienced, you must do things you have never done. 

b)  You cannot have an effective prayer life without being in synch/alignment with God.

c)  For your prayers to be aligned with heaven, you must OPEN your heart to all God wants to do in this season.
 
d)  True faith requires a departure from the safety of human possibility.
 
e)  If you are set on living your life doing ONLY the things YOU can do, then you don’t need God and you don’t need to pray.  God calls you into realms that require His supernatural power.  If you are willing to live the life God birthed you to live, you certainly need a prayer life.  Moreover, your prayer life must be in harmony with God’s will for each season/level/stage.
 
f)  To live by faith you must get comfortable with a certain level of discomfort.  God will not allow you to rest in your ability.  God calls you to people, places, and projects that force you to rely on Him and His ability.
 
g)  Living by faith means you receive and maintain what Jesus already obtained for you.
 
h)  God has declared, “NEW LEVELS” for us in this season.  But since the levels we will walk in are NEW, it requires us to be OPEN to things we may not be comfortable with.

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Daily Declarations! Declaration of Faith to Level Daily Declarations!

Declaration of Faith to Level Up Your Prayer Life!

Father, I thank You for extending Your amazing grace towards me.  I also thank You for teaching me to pray and to pray from a position of grace.  There was a time in my life when I prayed from a position of need.  I thought of all the things I needed, and I asked You to give them to me.  There were times when my prayer consisted of simply laying out a laundry list of wishes before You.  I now see why those prayers were ineffective.  I was looking at things from the world’s point of view and not heaven’s.  You put Your Spirit IN me, so I could learn to see things Your way and pray from a position of grace.  I pray from the position of what You have already provided.  As I do, I come in agreement with heaven, and I bring the reality of heaven into this world, in my life.  This is how I experience heaven on earth.  In this season of NEW LEVELS, I am committed to LEVELING UP my prayer life.  GREATER IS COMING for me!  I declare this by faith.  In Jesus’ name.  Amen!

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To understand prayer you must understand the fact To understand prayer you must understand the fact that God already knows what we need, but He requires us to ask and to ask in accordance with His will.

a)  In most cases, God will not move in our lives until we initiate contact between our world and His.  That initiation is activated through the vehicle of prayer.

James said, “You have not, because you ask not.” (James 4:2). Jesus said, “The Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him!” (Matthew 6:8). After making this statement, Jesus went on to teach the disciples how to pray.  He was basically saying, “The Father knows what you need before you ask, but He still requires you to ask.” Why?  Because He wants His performance in your life to be an act of your will and not just His. 

b)  The sovereignty of God is not an excuse for NOT praying!

Some people think that since God is sovereign, they don’t need to pray.  They think, “God knows everything, He already made plans, and He is going to do whatever He wants to do.  There is no need for me to pray.” People who think this way don’t understand the system God created.  Remember, God placed man (humans) in charge of this planet. 

-- God is so committed to this system that He seeks the cooperation of humans.  For God to fully operate in your life, He is looking for you to cooperate with Him.  Because He wants His involvement in your life to be an act of YOUR will and not just His. 

-- You are not a puppet and He is not a puppet master.  He is your God and He wants you to WANT Him!  This is what prayer is about. 

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What is prayer? How do we define it? a) Prayer What is prayer?  How do we define it?

a)  Prayer is agreeing with God’s plans and purposes in faith, knowing He prepared them by grace, fully believing He will bring to pass what He planned.

b)  Prayer is how the earth agrees with heaven. 

c)  Prayer is an earthly license for heavenly interference.

d)  Prayer is what happens when man (male and female) exercises his legal authority on the earth to invoke heaven’s influence on the planet. 

e)  Prayer is what happens when the creation gets the Creator involved in any given situation. 

I hope this gives you a better understanding of the importance of prayer.
(Gen 1:26 NIV) Then God (Elohim, the Creator God) (Gen 1:26 NIV) 
Then God (Elohim, the Creator God) said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." 

The words I will focus on are: “Let them rule.” 

a)  God gave man (humankind) the legal right and authority to operate on the earth. 

b)  At that moment, man (male and female) became the legal steward of the earth domain. 

c)  Man (male and female) is a spirit, he/she possesses a soul, and he/she lives within a physical body (while on this planet). Man’s (male and female) physical body is his/her connection to the earth realm.

d)  God is so committed to the system He created that when He wanted to operate freely in the earth, He submitted Himself to His own law and He came as a man.  God, who is a Spirit, came to the earth and lived within a physical body.

e)  Both God and satan actively seek the agreement and cooperation of humans to operate on the earth. 

I know this may seem like a lot to digest, but I am attempting to lay the foundation for this week.  You may be thinking, “Now Rick, what does this have to do with prayer?” Actually, quite a bit. 

-- When you understand prayer and how God wants to use prayer as His point-of-agreement to influence the earth, you WANT to pray, because you understand that as much as you need God, He also needs You. 

-- The Father is looking for people on the earth to pray, to agree with His will, for His plans to manifest in the earth realm. 

-- Of course, God can work without us.  I will never say God can’t do whatever He wants to do without prayer, but from what we can see in scripture, it seems as though God chooses to perform His will with the cooperation of humans.  This is a major aspect of prayer.

-- John Wesley said, “God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.”

So you have to ask yourself: 
-- Am I praying as I should?
-- Have I involved God in my life through prayer?
-- As I expect to LEVEL UP in 2021, am I ready to LEVEL UP my prayer life?

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Daily Declarations! Declaration of Faith to Level Daily Declarations!

Declaration of Faith to Level Up Your Prayer Life!

Father, I declare that I am open to Your voice and sensitive to Your leading every moment of every day.  I will not allow habits or routines to cause me to TUNE YOU OUT.  I want Your voice and Your leading to be stronger than my human impulses.  I want to get to the point where I am so sensitive to the impulses of the Holy Spirit that I am continually aware of what You are saying and how You are leading me.  Every day, I live with my heart open to receive, with my ears open to hear, and with my eyes open to see.  I will say whatever You tell me to say.  I will go wherever You lead me to go.  I will do whatever You tell me to do when I get there.  My life is not about me.  My life is All About You!!!! This is how I will experience NEW LEVELS in 2021.  This is why I know GREATER IS COMING FOR ME!  I declare this by faith.  In Jesus’ name.  Amen!

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Everything I have belongs to God and everything Go Everything I have belongs to God and everything God has belongs to me!  This is awesome.  I am in Christ and Christ in IN me.  Therefore, I will never lack a thing! 

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Never put your life on autopilot. a) As New Test Never put your life on autopilot.

a)  As New Testament, Born-Again, Spirit-filled believers, the goal is to be led by the Holy Spirit every day.  However, if we would be honest with ourselves, we do many things out of habit, or based on our past experiences, that we really don’t get God involved in.  Sometimes we even struggle with things for a while, only to have God say to us, “You have not even asked me about it.” When those situations happen, we must be quick to repent, to get God involved, to seek His face, and to follow His guidance.  But it would be better if we simply got God involved every day and if we sought His leading and guiding in all things. 

b)  One of the bad habits many of us have is putting our lives on autopilot in certain areas.  If you are good at something and you are used to doing this “thing” over and over again, you may tune God out when He is trying to lead you to do it a new way.  You must continually be OPEN to God and to the leading of the Holy Spirit.  Sometimes we don’t even realize we are closed. 

c)  Be open to the Holy Spirit.  Be willing to shift if He leads you to shift.  Be open to change if He wants you to change.  This is how you make intentional progress.  This is how you align your life with God.  This is how you experience heaven on earth.

d)  Life becomes easy when you boil it down to this: “Father, I will say whatever You tell me to say.  I will go wherever You lead me to go.  I will do whatever You tell me to do when I get there.  My life is not about me.  My life is All About You!!!!”

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