In the natural, that’s not how most of us, as believers, were raised to think. Like everyone else in the world, we were raised to think that everything we needed was on the outside of us somewhere. That someone else out there had it, and we needed to get it. We even had that idea about God. He’s out there, and I need what He has. (“God, send more power.”)
In other words, we were raised to be outside-in people. But really, as Christians, we are inside-out people. Nothing we need is “out there.” It’s all “in here,” because God is in us, His power is in us, and His provision is in us. Even His kingdom is in us!
You’re in heaven right now if you only knew it. Your spirit has been raised up and made to sit together in heavenly places with Christ, where He sits at the right hand of the Father on the throne of grace. You can come boldly to that throne anytime you want. You can pray and receive by faith whatever you need whenever you need it.
“Well, I pray all right, but it seems like my prayers don’t get any higher than the ceiling,” you might say.
They don’t need to get any higher than your nose!
“Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people” (2 Corinthians 6:16).
I remember after I caught sight of this back in the early 1970s, I was preaching a series of meetings in Lubbock, Texas. We’d been there for 21 days and had planned the last Saturday we were there to have a healing service. I asked The LORD for a plan and He directed us to go out in pairs the day before the meeting into the poorest neighborhoods in Lubbock. He told us to knock on doors and, when someone answered, to say, “We’re people who know how to pray. Is there anyone in this house who needs prayer?”
We were not to mention anything about the service until after we prayed for people. Then, we were simply to tell them we’d be ministering healing on Saturday and leave.
I partnered up with one of the men on our team and we went to a house and knocked on the door. A woman opened it and when she heard we were there to pray she said, “You boys Pentecost?”
“Yes, ma’am,” we replied.
“Praise the Lord!” she said, “We’re going to Sister’s house.”
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