Natalie Victoria Davis:
The Bride and Her Life of Prayer

What does living the life of an intercessor look like? What would life look like if we postured ourselves as "victorious ones" and declared the heart of God into this natural realm?

When we yield our lives before Christ in prayer, He is then able to impart to us His heart of intercession. Inspired intercession is knowing God's plans and desires and declaring His will until it comes to pass. We can never give up or lose hope. Instead, we stand on His promises and prophesy them into the unseen realm until they become reality in the natural realm.

Matthew 21:22 states, "And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith." If God has given us a blueprint of something, then we must have the faith to believe it will happen. We must stop believing by what we see but believe by what God has showed us.

Communion With God

Prayer is one of the greatest spiritual resources at our disposal. Prayer is a way of communication with the Lord. Through prayer we are able to confess our sins, pray for the sick, bless others, and give thanks; communion with God is more fully facilitated by being personal with the Lord. But most importantly it is a way for us to express God's heart. 1 John 5:14-15 states:

"This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him."

When we are in that place of intimacy with God, we can hear His heart. We are able to feel what He is doing and the season He is bringing us into. He is able to show us the things of the future and from that place decree them with greater authority. The time is crucial for us to begin to speak the hidden things of the Lord into existence, even if at the time we are experiencing difficulty and hardships. We are called to live a victorious life speaking as though our Father is speaking.

As it says in Mark 11:24: Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

That is a clear statement! When our relationship is secure in Him, our desire would only be to ask those things according to His heart and purpose.

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