Co-Heirs With Christ Jesus

When praying for daily needs, the only need we really have is: to stay abiding in Christ Jesus. If we are abiding in Jesus, our Father has promised to watch over us and keep us. “Tis only the abiding that can really satisfy the thirsty soul and give to drink of the rivers of pleasure that are at His right hand.” (Andrew Murray)

The whole secret of a happy Christian Life is “revealed in the child relationship — nothing more is needed than just to believe that God is as good a Father as the best ideal earthly father.” (Hannah Whitall Smith).

We are the children of God, and therefore His heirs; and our possessions come to us, not by working for them, but by inheritance from our Father. Oh, dear friends, how little some of you act like “heirs of God”! How poverty-stricken you are and how hard you work for the little you do possess!

God did not use the figure of a Father without knowing all that relationship implies; and those who know Him as Father know the whole secret [of His love]. They are their Father’s heirs, and may enter now into possession of all that is necessary for their present needs.

(The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life)

Being “in Christ” and all that it means to Christian maturity and freedom is the overwhelming theme of the New Testament. For example, in the six chapters of the book to the Ephesians alone there are forty references to “being in Christ” and of having “Christ in you”.

Your spiritual union with God is complete and eternal because it is provided by Christ Jesus Himself, who is complete and also eternal. Therefore, you are spiritually alive in Christ right now. Eternal life you posses right now, because you are “in Christ” right now. And so you have God’s ear right now, as well as His love for you.

God’s Word is spiritual law.  It functions just as sure as any natural law… Spiritual Law is for your good.  It is to produce the things you need and desire.  Therefore words are very important.  Begin now to become Word Conscious.  Words are little seeds that produce after their kind. 

Prayer is your legal right, it is your vehicle for you to use faith filled words to bring God on the scene on your behalf, that your joy may be full (John 16:23-24).  It is the Word abiding in you that causes faith to be present in your words when you pray (John 15:7-8). 

Prayer is one of the means of releasing faith, so if we line ourselves up with God’s Word and release our faith when we pray, we will see the power of God come alive in our lives. (Charles Capps)

“If you abide in Me and My words abide in you…” (John 15:7). It is not the Word as a whole, but the Word – as it were – broken up. It is the precepts and promises of Scripture personally appropriated, fed upon by faith, hidden in the heart. ‘Abiding’ means no fitful, spasmodic, occasional exercise and experience, but a constant and habitual communion with God through the Word, until its contents become the substance of our innermost being.

So study the Word, fellow Christian! Let your words be full of God’s life and power, and you will see the wonders of God’s mighty love.