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Three Dimensions of Prayer
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| Can you explain that you talk about in the book the three dimensions of prayer? | |
| Yeah, that's the basis for the whole book. | |
| I actually got a revelation of the court before I understood that. | |
| And I remember I was standing in a church service at the end with, if I was to call the person's name, most people would know him very well known. | |
| And I said to him, I said, you know, I've been really seeing in the word that God put prayer in three dimensions, approaching God as father, as friend, and as judge, out of the book of Luke. | |
| Then in Luke 11, when they said, teach us to pray, he said, when you pray, say, our father, which art in heaven. | |
| And then he said, and which of you having a friend? | |
| So he transitions from approaching God as a father to now approaching as a friend. | |
| But then in Luke 18, Jesus said, there was a widow that went before an unjust judge, and that's the basis for the whole court of heaven. | |
| So there's the third dimension of approaching God as judge. | |
| And I remember I looked at the guy and I said, so, of course, he knew the scripture well enough. | |
| And I said, I see that God actually put prayer in three dimensions. | |
| Jesus did, approaching God as father, friend, and judge. | |
| And he looked at me and he said, where do you get this stuff? | |
| That's good. | |
| And I looked at him because he's well known. | |
| I said, you don't steal that. | |
| Everybody thinks he came up with it. | |
| He did. | |
| And so anyway, what I saw, I already knew the courts, but that was literally like the nail in the coffin for me that said, this is real. | |
| Because Jesus actually spoke of prayer in a judicial setting and a judicial system when he talked about the widow approaching God as a judge. | |
| And that changed, that really like, it gave me boldness to really run with it. | |
| You did something in your book. | |
| In approaching God as father, you described Jesus as an adopted son of the father, but in a different way of understanding the word, adopted. | |
| Can you explain that it was spoken of, spoken in? | |
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Full Authority Adoption
00:01:03
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| It wasn't adoption like we think of today where someone goes and adopts an orphan somewhere. | |
| When a son normally reached around the age 30, the father would adopt him. | |
| I mean, he was already his biological son, but a father would adopt that son, and he now had full authority in the household. | |
| Yes. | |
| And so that's what happened to Jesus at the River Jordan. | |
| When the father said, you are my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. | |
| See, he adopted Jesus as his son at that point. | |
| And what did Jesus do? | |
| Well, he went into the wilderness, but then he came out in the power of the Spirit and He began to operate in the full authority of who God was in the earth. | |
| And so he became the adopted son of God. | |
| And so we all go through a process, if you will, of maturing in the Lord, where that we come to a place, I believe, just like Jesus, where we say, Lord, I just want to step into the authority, | |