Did you know the word AMEN actually means 'so be it'. It's a confirmation of everything you said before. That's why we say it at the end of prayer. To confirm something means that you believe it to be true. So, if you pray something that you don't really believe in your heart and then say Amen, you are being contradictory and nothing will come of it. Your heart has to be on the same page as the words that are coming out of your mouth. You must believe what you are speaking.
It's the same way God talked in the beginning. When He said 'let there be light' He believed that what He said would happen. Think like this; when you flip a switch on in your house, you expect the light to come on. If you walk over to the switch and are saying 'I'm turning on the light', you believe the light will come on.
When you understand that God gave us the power of life and death in our tongue, you will be more careful to say exactly what you believe. You will pray what you believe. Then the next step is to work on WHAT you believe.
If you read the story of Mary. She recieved her pregnancy with Jesus as the result of a 'word'. It was a word spoken by an angel and delivered into her body by the Holy Spirit. She received it when she said 'be it unto me as you have spoken'. She believed, accepted and confirmed that she recieved what the angel told her. It's as if she said Amen.
This might be a good place to sit down and make a list of the things you believe. Afterwards you will understand what your life is capable of exhibiting - it's written on that piece of paper.
2 comments:
One thing a lot of people need to realize is God didn't use all the Thee's and Thou's and Thine's that are in the Bible. Those were placed there by the men that edited the various books. Therefore, when people pray using all those words, they're just making it more complicated than it needs to be. We should speak to God as we would a friend, using words that we are comfortable with.
I agree; but then it was their normal way of speech in those days; sometimes I like to go to a Bible site like Bible Gateway, where you can read the same verse in many different translations; sometimes there are awesome treasures found that way, or a completely different aspect which was hidden by the way it was translated. I used to think the Bible was so boring and couldn't force myself to crack it open; now I can't go a day without a piece, or else I feel like I missed something. :-) Thanks for reading and making comments.
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