Praying For Transformation to Love

Some years ago, I began to tackle head-on the issues of what was manifest in my heart and in my life. I’m supposed to be like Jesus, right? Jesus is Love, therefore, Sade is…. ?. Let’s just say there was much to be desired.

Permanent change comes from within and the problem with justifying your behavior is that the justification removes the ability to change from you. If you deny there is a problem, then you can’t fix it. I was certainly not under any illusions about my imperfections. As my dear brother Gary Carpenter would say, “If you are judging me, then you’re not a very good judge because my imperfections are quite plain and obvious.”

Nonetheless, it was clear to me that I needed to pursue love as Paul instructed in 1st Corinthians 13:13 – 14:1
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Follow after charity…

So, I began to do this by praying in the Spirit, or praying in tongues, fasting and making confessions of the Word of God over myself in the area of Love. By confessions, I do not mean confessing sin. I am referring to taking the Scriptures and creating a present tense declaration of faith in the truth of those scriptures in your life. God creates by speaking and He created us to operate like He does even though we are not Deity.

Romans 4:17
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

I really like this excerpt from Gary Carpenter’s article “Tapping Into God’s Power”:

Isa 55:10-11
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

There is only one way to “return God’s Word unto Him” and that is by CONFESSING IT AS BEING PRESENT TENSE TRUTH IN YOUR LIFE! This is the faith of our father Abraham. He had to begin calling himself the father of many nations (Calling those things which be not as though they were) long before his son Isaac was ever conceived in the womb of Sarah.

There simply is no separating the power of the Holy Spirit from the spoken Word of God! Get this; the Lord said to me, “The Holy Spirit will not manifest the unspoken word of God for anybody…not even God the Father! The Holy Spirit would still be brooding over the face of the waters today waiting for the SPOKEN Words ‘Let there be light!’”

It was as Abraham confessed the “promise” that the Holy Spirit began changing Abraham and Sarah’s bodies at the molecular level, causing sufficient change that Sarah actually began ovulating again (she was long past menopause) and causing sufficient change in Abraham that he became virile again. But if Abraham had not been obedient to “speak the promise” as if it were already so in his life (“I am the father of many nations”) the Holy Spirit would NEVER have manifested those changes … God’s will or not! The number one way that the Holy Spirit works in the earth is …He manifests the SPOKEN Word!

So, no matter what problems people come to me with: health, marital, financial, children, etc., etc., my counsel to them is always the same: “Find two or three promises from the Word of God that cover your case. Begin worshipping God for these promises and begin saying them out of your mouth as if they were already manifested in your life. Quit speaking the negative circumstances, COMPLETELY! Keep saying about yourself what the Word says about you. The Holy Spirit will manifest those promises in your life.”

That’s it! Simple! Too simple for most folks to accept! Yet it is the power of God! It works every time for those that do it! There are no exceptions! There are no difficulties that are too hard for the Holy Spirit! There are no special cases! This always works! Period! Even those that “try it” usually fail because they become “weary in well doing” and quit before the manifestation comes. But it will always come if they do not. It is through faith AND patience that we possess the promises. Amen?

Click Here to read the rest of Gary’s Article. http://www.garycarpenter.org/tapinto.html

Now when it comes to my own confessions on the Love of God, I have kind of gone overboard because I know just how far I have to go to become like Jesus and I have only one lifetime to get there. So, a couple of years ago I created a confession document full of Scriptures about the love of God and the fruit of the Spirit in my life.

It takes me about seven minutes each time to speak out the entire document. Beyond that, I then read out the confessions onto an MP3 recording that I now play in my ipod so that I can do my confessions not only when I have time to pray privately, but also when I am cleaning house or driving around with the kids.

Since I started these, I have seen real, permanent change in my life and relationships. Well, you’re not perfect yet, Sade. Well, no, but I’m more perfect than I used to be and when you see me next time, I’ll be more perfect than I am now, Hallelujah! I’m so grateful that God isn’t going to leave me like I am. My confession is that as Jesus is, so am I in this world.

If you need to increase the level of your love walk (and you know you need to!), I invite you to download my Love Confessions document and speak these over your life. If you have a computer or MP3 player, you can download the recording of the confessions as well.

Don’t just do this one time and wait for change. Press into the change. Pray until the change comes. Be ready to pray for ten thousand years, knowing that God is faithful to answer. Speak these words over and over and give the Holy Ghost the opportunity to manifest the Love of God through you in this lifetime.

John 13:35
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Click here to download the Love Confessions as a Word Document

Click here to download the MP3 recording of the Love Confessions

Grace and Peace to you,

Sade

Category: Prayer