Prayer: Channeling Obedience 9.11.24

Mark 6:5–6 NKJV

5 Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. 6 And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.

This is one of the few times in the Bible that Jesus was impressed

Impressed by their unbelief

If we can ruin the atmosphere, we can enhance and construct it too

We as a staff will be fasting and praying

Hebrews 11:3 NKJV

3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

The Spiritual realm set the tone of influence to the physical natural realm

John 9:1–7 NKJV

1 Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. 2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. 4 I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. 7 And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.

Jesus wasn’t just making mud

He was creating an atmosphere of expectation

There’s an importance to him telling him to go wash in that specific pool

The pool of Bethesda was closer and more convenient (especially for a blind guy)

The Pool of Siloam was almost 4/10th of a mile away from where they were

Roughly 2,020 feet away

He gave specifics for a reason

A specific Fishing spot

Lewis River

East Fork or the North Fork

Under the bridge

Specifics

channels our obedience

Matthew 6:5–10 NKJV

5 “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. 9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.

Jesus gives us the ability to call Heaven down to earth

Matthew 18:18 NKJV

18 “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Whatever you bind on earth

Matthew 18:18 NKJV

18 “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

To Bind:

to forbid, prohibit, declare to be illicit

Same word is used in Luke 13:16

Luke 13:16 NKJV

16 So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound—think of it—for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?”

Satan is said to bind a woman bent together by means of a demon, as his messenger, taking possession of the woman and preventing her from standing upright

to bind, put under obligation, of the law, duty etc.

Vines expository:

”to loosen," especially by way of deliverance, sometimes has the meaning of "breaking, destructively," e.g., of "breaking" commandments, not only infringing them, but loosing the force of them, rendering them not binding,

We Bind and Prohibit:

Cancer

Autoimmune disease

Alzheimer's

Lukemia

Anxiety

Fear

Bondage

Generational and long standing health issues

Bind poverty

Oppression

Depression

Night Terrors

Thoughts of Suicide

Spirit of division

Spirits of lust and pornography

The Jezebel spirit

Spirits of pride

Spirits of Racism

Spirits of grief and lost

Loose:

Healing

Joy

Prosperity

Generosity

Sound mind

Unity

Submission to the Lord

Loose hope

Loose Faith

Strength

Gifts of Healing

Prophecy

Revelation

Security

Safety in God

2 Corinthians 9:8 NKJV

8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.