This is Day Ninety-Nine of 3650 Minutes of Prayer. This episode centers on the Abrahamic kind of faith and the absolute necessity of spiritual vision. In Genesis 13, after a painful but necessary separation from his nephew Lot, Abram experiences a massive expansion of God's promise. Lot operated purely by physical sight, selfishly choosing the well-watered plains near the wicked city of Sodom. But God waited until the wrong association was gone before commanding Abram to lift his eyes with spiritual vision. God told him to walk the length and width of the land, stepping into his divine inheritance.
However, Abram was not merely looking at physical dirt. He was looking with spiritual faith toward a heavenly city, a city not made with human hands, whose builder and maker is God. This profound spiritual vision is exactly why Abraham encountered Melchizedek, the King of Salem and Priest of the Most High God. Melchizedek was a powerful revelation and type of the pre-incarnate Christ. Abraham's faith was entirely anchored in the coming Messiah.
This brings us to the truth of Philemon 1:6. Our faith only becomes energized and effective when we acknowledge every good thing that is in us in Christ Jesus. We must be incredibly discerning in this generation. Any spiritual practice, teaching, or movement that talks about the spiritual realm, the universe, or enlightenment but removes Jesus Christ is completely false. It is new age spirituality, which is fundamentally demonic and satanic. Jesus made it exclusively clear that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one receives eternal life, and no one accesses the true things of the Spirit, except through Christ.
We spent time praying to walk in the Abrahamic kind of faith. We prayed for the courage to separate from fleshly distractions and the spiritual eyes to recognize our true inheritance. We reject every false spirit and choose to walk boldly in the exact knowledge of who we are in Christ Jesus.
Prayer and Reflection Scriptures (AMP)
Genesis 13:14-17 (AMP)
"The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had left him, 'Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are standing, northward and southward and eastward and westward; I will make your descendants [as numerous] as the dust of the earth... Arise, walk (make a thorough reconnaissance) around in the land, through its length and its width, for I will give it to you.'"
Hebrews 11:8-10 (AMP)
"By faith Abraham, when he was called [by God], obeyed by going to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance... For he was [waiting expectantly and confidently] looking forward to the city which has fixed and firm foundations, whose Architect and Builder is God."
Hebrews 7:1-3 (AMP)
"For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him... He is first of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, which means king of peace."
Philemon 1:6 (AMP)
"I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective and powerful because of your accurate knowledge of every good thing which is ours in Christ."
John 14:6 (AMP)
"Jesus said to him, 'I am the [only] Way to God and the [real] Truth and the [real] Life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.'"
There is One true God, the Creator of all things, revealed in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. There is One God and One Spirit Who has redeemed us all. I am Mathew Sekanjako, a believer in Christ Jesus Yeshua HaMashiach, the one Son of God. I serve and confess God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. This intercession is offered in faith, in obedience, and in love, for all who will listen.