6.2 The First Response of Faith - Ask

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If these ten verses are true, then they must rule over all. These are the ten most important verses in the Bible. When I look at other “lists” of the most important verses in the Bible, I am filled with great sorrow. Not one list includes “Abide in Me and I in You.”

Most of these ten are not in those other lists.

How can the outer, peripheral things of God stand over being filled with all the fullness of God in Person, in us, right here, right now? If the second and third most important verses in the Bible be true, then all others must arrange themselves in obeisance.

A True Christianity. But what would a Christianity be like that teaches these ten most important verses in the Bible in every sermon preached, in every lesson taught, in every possible aspect and way? Are we not free to proclaim and believe and bring forth all that God speaks?

What would the Christian life be like if every child coming home from Sunday School could say in simple child-like words the full meaning of these ten verses: “Mommy, God intends to make me just like Jesus!” “Daddy, did you know that all of God is right here inside of me?” “Grandma, did you know that God thinks more of me than He does of Himself?”

Why would we settle for little, when these beyond-all-belief verses are in our hearts and in our mouths?
And We Also. But I do not present ideas about God. Everything we know “about” God cannot be God. God can only be known by these words: AND WE ALSO.

Whatever God is – and we also, God in Person in us. Whatever God does – and we also, God flowing out from us as rivers. A Man laying down His life for His friends – and we also, the revelation of Jesus-Sent.
Mary’s words must be our continual refrain, spoken in every possible way in response to every word God speaks. First God speaks, then we ask, then we believe we have received, giving thanks, then we speak that which we believe as our only reality, calling that which appears “not” to be the only thing true.

Conformed with His Image. Father, You say that you are conforming me right now with the image of Jesus, the first One of our kind. Father I ask that you conform me fully with Jesus in all ways right now. I believe, Father, that I have received what I ask. I am in all ways in all fullness the very image of Jesus Christ, the express image of God.

I am God revealed, just as You intended from the beginning.

Filled with God. Father, You say that You fill me full with all of Your fullness. I ask that You be all that You are entirely inside of me. I believe that I have what I ask. Therefore, I go from this moment on knowing You only as the God who fills me full in Person with ALL that You are. You are so big in my sight, Oh Father, that when I look in the mirror in the middle of the night, all I can ever see is You.
Indeed, I am filled with all the fulness of God.

Spirit Flowing Out. Father, You say that since I believe in Jesus, rivers of living water, You, God, by Your Spirit, flow out from me in all directions, healing and giving life, setting creation free. Yet I know that You do nothing apart from me, from the exercise of the faith of Jesus that is my only life. God, I ask that You abound in love out from me in all ways right now and forever. I believe with all commitment that it is true. I don’t have to see it, I don’t have to feel it; I know that the river of life flows out from me, reconciling the world to Yourself – because You say.

Rivers of Spirit are always flowing out from me bring life and healing to all.

Casting Down Accusation. Father, You say that I defeat the accuser, that I cast down every shadow of the voice that speaks against Christ, the Word You speak, revealed in human flesh. Father, I ask for the full experience of that victory. It is mine, given to me by Jesus, all victory over death. Jesus proves Himself faithful and true through me. Father, I ask that I never speak contrary to Your words ever again. I speak all that You speak. I am Your victory; I am the proving of Christ.

I cast down all accusation against every Word God speaks; I cast down all accusation against myself.

Christ My Life. Father, You say that I am already dead to sin. You say that Christ is my life. I know that what You speak is true. I will never blaspheme You by calling myself or any part of myself or anything in my way anything except Christ my only life. My flesh is Your flesh, Oh Father; I will never again lay claim to it as mine. Father, I ask You to give me full and complete knowledge of my utter union with Your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. I know that I have already received all that I ask.

Christ IS my life; I have no other life.

Enter Boldly. Father, You say that I enter boldly into the Holiest Place in the universe and there am seated upon Your throne, the Mercy Seat of Heaven, my heart, with all boldness. I ask for the full knowledge and release of Your authority through me, the authority of Love, the power by which You bring all things into subjection to You, the One who is meek and lowly of heart. In asking, I believe that I have all that I ask, for I ask according to Your will; Your word is Your will. I exercise that all-authority by drawing all things into love upon the Mercy Seat, upon my own heart.

I live boldly only inside of God, together with Him.

Led in Triumph. Father, You say that You always lead me in triumph and in no other way. Therefore I speak with all boldness and joy that Christ is all there is in me. I exult boastfully in all the victory of Jesus, though I see it not, yet I will see with my eyes, as You defeat death itself in my body. I speak Christ; I prophecy Christ into all of my being, into all of my ways, into all of my present and future and past. Father, I am so full of Christ that I hardly know what they mean when they refer to anything else.
I am absolutely confident that I partake of all that is Christ.

Loving Others. Father, You say that I lay down my life for my friends just as Jesus laid His life down for me. Father, You say that I love others with a pure heart fervently. Father, I ask that Your love abound in my heart in all ways. Father I ask that at all times and in every way, I set others free of myself and that I bear in my own being all the cost of their freedom from me. Father, I believe that I have received all that I ask. Father, I am, in all of my ways and doings, the very intercession of Jesus.

I love all others with the love that is Father filling my heart to overflowing.

Setting Creation Free. Father, You say that Your Son, Jesus, sets all creation free through me. Father I ask that you remove the cover of blindness and that You reveal me as Your son right now. I ask that the glorious liberty that fills me full – You, My Father – would flow out of me and set all creation free. The earth is my inheritance; heaven is my inheritance; all creation is my inheritance. I ask for all my inheritance, that I might release all creation from all the bonds of obligation and set everyone free to be who and what You made them to be. And in asking, Father, I believe that I have all that I ask.

I set creation free.

I Abide IN Jesus. Father, You say that “eternal life” is to know You and to know Jesus-Sent. I have a mind to know You, God. I know God; I know Jesus-Sent. Father, I ask that I would know this full experience of walking together with You, Your Person inside of my person, Your consciousness inside of my consciousness, and all of me inside of You, this most precious and sweetest communion – and increasing forever. I know that I receive now all that I ask.

I abide IN Jesus; all that is Jesus abides IN all that is me.

Only One Thing. Father, there is one thing only I really want. I want to be inside of Jesus, every part of me, and I want Jesus to be all there is in me. I don’t want to live anywhere else. When I look at me, all I see is Him, and when I look at Him, there I am, all of me, entirely inside of Him. I see only out from His eyes. I put on the Lord Jesus Christ. I abide in Him through faith; He abides in me; He conforms Himself to me, becoming all that I am. I know that He does so through faith.

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever (Ephesians 3:20-21).

As He Says. Be sure that you speak all of these prayers out loud to the Father and entirely as yourself. Engage directly with God as you ask Him to fulfill His Word in you. Then KNOW that God is telling us the truth.

Nothing of God can be true for us until we know that it is true, now, when we see Him not. Yet as He is revealed for all to see, we also are revealed with Him in glory, that we are just like Him. None of it will be a surprise to us, overwhelming glory, yes, but no surprise. For we have seen Him as He is all along. We believe what He says.

And He reveals Himself through us. God, our insides and our outsides; we, in all ways just like Jesus. As He says.

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