Praying into the Mandate

 

 

First, we begin to pray into His commissioning and to treat as holy the calling He has put upon our lives. We hold Him up and declare that we have been set apart for His purposes, that we belong to Him, and that He has called us into this time and this day. We lay out our position of trust, and abandon ourselves into that place of trusting Him and yielding our lives to Him,declaring that, “My life is not mine; it belongs to Him,” and that in spite of everything that makes our hearts want to shrink back or cover over, we choose to abandon ourselves to Him and trust Him fully.

 

We then pray into understanding the burden of God’s heart, the seriousness and depth of what He has been doing throughout the centuries, what He has brought us to at this time, and the season of time we are going into in the nations and the church, and we begin to carry the burden of God’s heart.

 

We submit and yield ourselves to the instructions and commands He has given us as He is molding us and shaping us to be vessels He can use. We hold those up and bow our knees in obedience.

 

We lift up God’s promises so that as the enemy comes against us and tries to intimidate us to get us to shrink back, we are holding the promises up as a banner, declaring what we have been called to. As we face mountains that are too big and challenges that are beyond us, we do not become timid or cower, but we hold up the grace that He has given us: “My God’s grace is sufficient to see everything through. He cannot fail. He will be faithful to complete this work.”

 

 

 

from The Secret to Fruitfulness by John Mulinde and Mark Daniel