Prepare Your Heart to Receive: Grease the Pan
Good morning, AGC Family!
I hope you were able to read yesterday’s blog and put together the scriptures you are standing on this week. If you did not, it’s never too late to go back and read yesterday’s blog!
Today, we are going to continue to “bake a cake of faith.” Our next step is to grease the pan. What do we grease a pan with? Oil. All throughout the Bible, God has used oil as a type of the Holy Spirit. Psalms 23:5 says,
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
The moment you receive Jesus as your savior, God anoints you with the Holy Spirit. He comes to live within your spirit, and His greatest desire is to overflow in your life. God’s greatest desire is for your cup to run over with the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus told us that the Holy Spirit would teach us, guide us, and put us in remembrance. Jesus also called Him the Spirit of Truth. Therefore, it is the Holy Spirit’s responsibility to bring forth truth in your life. (IF we allow him to do so!) The word also tells us if we know the truth, the truth will set us free. Translate and meditate on that. If the Holy Spirit is the truth, then He is the source of freedom! Glory to God! The Source of freedom lives on the inside of us! He will help to set us free from our situation.
Now, back to the cake. We need to “grease the pan” with the power of the Holy Spirit! We place His anointing on it when we lift our voice in prayer - praying in the Holy Spirit. We are allowing the truth to set us free! “But Pastor Candace,” you might say, “I am not baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues.” No worries! God knows exactly where you are, and He will take and do with whatever you bring. So, just lift your voice in prayer over the things you are believing for. Declare and decree (a form of prayer) from the word of God, through the power of the Holy Spirit. Once you have “decreed a thing,” then spend time praying in tongues over the situation. Allow the Holy Spirit to set you free from those situations.
An example of this would be in believing for finances. Pray:
Father, I thank you that throughout your word you have made provision for my life. I stand on that word without wavering because I believe in it with all my heart, and I trust you! Now, Lord, I declare and decree by the power of the Holy Spirit that You are my provider! I call myself debt free! Angels go forth and bring forth the promises of God in my life! Lord, I thank you! At this point, I would pray in tongues; but if you haven’t received the gift of tongues yet, just spend time thanking God for hearing your prayer.
Today, I encourage you to pray over the things you are believing God for. But, don’t just do it because I say so! Do it in faith in the power of the Holy Spirit! Let His anointing oil run over the situation. Allow the power of praying in tongues to flow through you today! The word says, it’s “not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit!” Place your situation in the hands of the Holy Spirit!
-Pastor Candace