It Is Finished

Matthew 6:7 NKJV
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.

I don’t know about you but when hearing a beautiful prayer I seem to get a little intimidated.

But that’s not how I pray.

It’s not about the length of the prayer but the power and the authority behind the words.

After all didn’t Jesus say lay hands on the sick and they will be healed. He didn’t say lay hands on the sick spend 5 to 10 minutes praying over them asking God to do all the things that were accomplished at the cross already and then they will get healed.

Jesus didn’t have long flowing prayers. He said simply be healed and sin no more. Just believe. He laid his hands on blind eyes and when he took them off they could see. He stuck his fingers in deaf ears and when He pulled them out they could hear. No long flowing prayers begging the father.

Jesus also commented about how the Pharisees had these long beautiful prayers.  Jesus said that their prayers glorify themselves and not the father. They were begging prayers and begging is what you did under the old covenant.

Now we’re under the new covenant. Jesus said at the cross it is finished. It’s all finished. No more begging God the father. All has been accomplished.

And yet here we are today enamored by those long prayers that other people pray.

The enemy tries to have us wish we could pray like them.

All we have to do is reach our hand out and take a hold of someone else and the healing power of Jesus enters them. They are healed instantly because as Jesus said it is finished.

The words we say will come from deep within us. They will be the words of Holy Spirit as we practice His presence in us.

Believe it and receive it.