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Sometimes I open my mouth and words somehow just come spilling out. It’s really kind of scary, in a way, because suddenly, you have put into other people’s ears your own thoughts. And sometimes you might not even know you really thought that! (Like when someone is thinking and suddenly has to ask himself, “Did I say that out loud?” If that’s not scary, then let me know, but I think it is.)
I’ve done that recently. Some of us were discussing prayer. I stated that, in our society, words had become cheap. People can say things using the same words or phrases and yet mean totally opposite things. My leading is that there are two basic levels of thought.
Thought being invisible, inaudible and,
The spoken word—audible, but also often leading to action.
Have you thought that for things to become actualities in this plane of being, whatever action is happening (reality) has first happened on another level—that of the spiritual, invisible, and inaudible to humanity? To me, that is why it is so hard for us in this day and age to understand what the Bible means when a word or phrase is a concrete, unmovable thing. We constantly manipulate words to be whatever we want them to be. And in that activity, familiarity breeds contempt.
To carry that a step further, we simply do not seem to act as though we truly understand that whatever is happening in this world has already happened in the spiritual realm. Spiritual battles have been fought. Spiritual forces have been in combat. Whatever is happening in this world, has already happened in the spiritual realm. Prayer is probably the very most important thing we can be involved in because, before anything happens on earth, it is being fought through in spiritual realms.
When we intercede for others, we are not just speaking empty words. Instead, we are activating spiritual forces, which are the true source of power, as all battles are fought in spiritual realms long before they materialize in our lives and the lives of those around us. When we are asked to pray for others, are we using those requests to truly help others? We have it in our power to mold outcomes in people’s lives because, before anything happens on earth, it is worked through spiritually.
“When we reach heaven, we will be struck with astonishment at all the power which was in store for us, and how very little we used.”
Did you ever wonder why the disciples’ prayer has the phrase “on earth, as it is in heaven?”
Is there something that you need to pray about today?
Have you plugged into your power source?