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Elisha Prayed – Open His Eyes

2 Kings 6:15  And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?” 16 So he answered, “Do not fear, for those who [are] with us [are] more than those who [are] with them.” 17 And Elisha prayed, and said, “LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” Then the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

The key words here is “Elisha Prayed”  (note:  this is different from “Elijah Prayed”).     Elijah and Elisha are two different men of God, both who know the power and ability of prayer.

Notice here in 2 Kings 2:9 And so it was, when they had crossed over, that Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask! What may I do for you, before I am taken away from you?” Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.”

So Elisha prayed “Open his eyes”.   Notice he did not pray for power but just to see what God had already done and what God was about to do.  The Lord God had angels taking care of the seemingly impossible situation.

Confess Our Sin – He Cleanses.

1 John 1:7 but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

We will always be a sinner in this life, and so we constantly need a way to come back to God even though we sin.  Prayer requires a unhindered communication between us and God, sin frustrates that path.  So God make a provision through His son, so we could come back to God even after sin.  So now the way is clear for our prayer.

Prayer – Waiting for God to Move

God intends to fulfill every desire placed in us by the Holy Spirit.  We just need prayer,  waiting for God’s timing and God’s way.  Trying to adjust God’s timing is like trying to move the hands on a clock, we can move the hands, but we cannot actually change the time.

Just remember Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Also remember Genesis 13:14 And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are — northward, southward, eastward, and westward;   15 “for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.

Prayer in the Triune God

Would you apply this in the life of holiness, let faith in the Holy Trinity be a living practical reality. In every prayer to the Father to sanctify you, take up your position in Christ, and do it in the power of the Spirit within you. In every exercise of faith in Christ as your Sanctification, let your posture be that of prayer to the Father and trust in Him as He delights to honour the Son, and of quiet expectancy of the Spirit’s working, through whom the Father glorifies the Son. In every surrender of the soul to the sanctification of the Spirit, to His leading as the Spirit of Holiness, look to the Father who grants His mighty working, and who sanctifies through faith in the Son, and expect the Spirit’s power to manifest itself in showing the will of God, and Jesus as your Sanctification. If for a time this appears at variance with the simplicity of childlike faith and prayer, be assured that as God has thus revealed Himself, He will teach you so to worship and believe. And so the Holy, holy, holy will become the deep undertone of all our worship and all our life.

From Holy in Christ by Andrew Murray

Notice the words referring to God:

  • Father, God, Him,
  • Christ, Jesus, Son,
  • Spirit, Spirit of Holiness.

Then notice the phrase: Holy Holy, Holy.   This section refers to prayer in coordination with the Triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Delight in the Lord

Psalms 37:4 Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. Now couple this verse with John 15:7  “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.

Notice the correlation of “Delight yourself in the Lord” and “abide in Me“.  This has everything to do with our personal fellowship and relationship with the Lord.

 

 

Faith in God

Mark 11:23 “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.”

Notice the words: be removed, does not doubt and believes.  These items are necessary for every good prayer.   Faith sees the answer to prayer before the answer comes.