God has been doing so much in my life lately. Late last night I felt stirred to pray. You ask about what, well I just started praying in the Spirit. I felt like I was being attacked by the enemy. I just started singing, "It's not I who lives but Christ who lives in me." Then I got out my bible and asked God what He wanted me to read. He said, "Turn to Luke." I opened Luke randomly and right there this passage of scripture pops out to me. Luke 11.1-13.
"Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray as John taught his disciples." And he said to them, "When you pray, say: "Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation." And he said to them, "Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and will answer from within, 'Do not bother me ; the door is now shut , and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything'? I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence (shamelessly bold. Woah! I wish I was shamelessly bold!!) he will rise and give him whatever he needs. And I tell you, 'ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be open to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for a egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
That same night my Dad had a dream:
He dreamed that he was chased and attacked by a bear. He picked up a big log and with two hands holding it was fighting off the bear. He fought it for awhile as it came close to the family. He finally whacked it on the head and it died. The dream ended. My dad believes that the log represents the word of God and the bear represents our circumstances. Our circumstances whatever they may be must yield and give way to the word of God. And by impudence in prayer reminding Our Lord of his word and promises break through is here and now.
Then God told me to turn to Colossians. So I read Colossians 1.3-14.
'We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing, as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, just as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf and has made known to us your love in the Spirit. And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."
That's all I have to say. I hope that God speaks to you through this.
Blessings!
Chloe
