Heavenly ambassadors (Part Four)
Verse of the Day: Matthew 6:10 “your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”
There is a reality that many Christians prefer not to talk: Most prayers are not answered, and over time many Christians end up discouraged. Some of our prayers are not answered because we often ask in our earthly nature without considering the heavenly position. God says in His Word that He knows the plans He has for us, to give us hope and a future (Jeremiah 29: 11). In the same book, he said that the projects were formed before our birth. This is why in the verse of the day (Matthew 6: 10), Jesus teaches his disciples to pray by asking that God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven. When we present our requests in prayer, we must always remember that we are citizens of heaven and therefore we must conform to what is already happening in heaven.
What matters is not the confidence of faith, but it is the confidence based on the will of God. It is for this reason that John wrote in saying: “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have what we asked of him” (1 John 5:14-15)
This is possible only when we understand that we are citizens of heaven. A citizen of heaven is always willing to walk in the heavenly plan by accepting to lose his own interests. We all have desires and preferences according to our flesh and personality but if you really are a citizen of heaven, you must learn to sacrifice those desires and preferences by giving room to the wishes and preferences of heaven according to the will of God.
Before we ask anything in prayer, we should ask God the following question: "What do you want in this situation? What is the heavenly opinion? "
A good citizen of heaven is biblically described as a soldier of the Lord. Paul wrote to Timothy saying: "Suffer with me, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. It is not a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, he wants to please the one who enlisted " 2 Timothy 2: 3-4
In the fifth part, I will talk about the financial provision of the citizen of heaven.
Chris Ndikumana
