Our Basis for Prayer

Communication with the Lord is made available through entering into a covenant relationship with our Heavenly Father. We do this by accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Before sin entered the earth, Adam enjoyed perfect communion with the Lord. In fact, the scriptures tell us that God would come to speak with Adam in the garden.When Adam failed to obey God's command to maintain dominion in the earth, he allowed Satan to enter in. Through deception, Satan usurped Adam's God given authority. Adam was guilty of high treason, allowing the curse of sin to enter the earth and his fellowship with the Father was broken.

Unfolding His eternal plan, God entered into covenant with Noah and then with Abraham and continued to honor His word to work through man to whom He had originally given dominion in the earth. Through His covenant with Abraham , Abraham and his descendants had access to Almighty God, and God had access to intervene in the destiny of man. When Abraham, as God's covenant partner, was willing to sacrifice his son, Isaac, for the sake of the covenant, God then had the legal basis for offering His own Son, Jesus, to redeem mankind from the dominion of Satan. As long as the Israelites honored the covenant, they had a degree of protection and blessing, but the blood sacrifices of animals could only cover the sinful condition of man. The debt of sin was not satisfied until time that God's own Son, Jesus, entered the earth, legally through the body of a man, and paid the price to redeem mankind by the shedding of His own sinless blood on the cross of Calvary. Through His death and resurrection the power of sin was broken and the New Covenant was established. Our relationship with the Father God is based on that covenant.

Ephesians 6: 18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

Galatians 4: 4-7 But when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, (This fleshly body gave him authority in the earth.) made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father, (relationship restored) Wherefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Satan is a spiritual outlaw. He had no authority of his own in the earth. God created man in His own image ("a speaking spirit"). God formed a body out of the dust of the earth to house the spirit of man. God then anointed man with authority as His representative in the earth. When man's spirit leaves his body, he ceases to have influence in the earth.

Jesus said that, unlike Satan, He came leagally into the earth through birth of a woman which gave him the body of a man.

John 10: 14 And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, tent of flesh) and lived among us;

John 10: 1 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep."

He then goes on to identify the thief as one who comes only to steal, and to kill and to destroy. This thief is Satan who first tried to directly usurp God's authority and when he failed then tried to usurp the authority of God, which was invested in man.

God prophesied to Satan after he had caused man to fall in the garden. He told him that the "seed of a woman" would bruise his head (chief position) by taking away the authority that he had stolen.

In Christ, we once again have authority in the earth. We are His "body" and so God once again has set things right in the earth by restoring authority to man. Some struggle with this concept thinking it is wrongly elevating man, but it is God Himself who "raised us up" and caused us to be one withChrist Jesus. Religion will forbid man to see himself as God sees him, but it is time that we believe the Word of God, and walk in the authority that will cause the enemies of Jesus to be made His footstool.

As joint heirs with Christ Jesus, our position is described in Ephesians 2: 4-6. But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sin, has quickened us (made alive) with Christ, by grace (unmerited favor) you were saved; and has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

This is who we are in Christ, and it takes revelation through the Holy Spirit to begin to comprehend this position of authority, but it is from this position that we can truly begin to pray in confidence and power.

Pray Ephesians 1: 17- 23 over yourself by replacing "you", "your" and "us"
with "me"and "my".