Praying over Yourself and Others
This is a place to start. Always be Holy Spirit led and Word based in prayer. We never pray controlling prayers over people.
By Word based praying, I mean, is it in the Bible? Did God speak of this? Did He promise it? Did He say it was good? We are not praying those faith destroying prayers by tacking on “if it be Your will” to the back end of them and sending them up like a sparkler… hoping they reach heaven. Faith begins where the will of God is known and if you don’t know what His will is, don’t pray about it until you do. It’s all in the book. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. The words of God, written and spoken, contain Holy Spirit power when uttered in faith by a blood redeemed believer. Take time to speak them over yourself and those you’re praying for.
Know that God cannot lie. If He promised it, you can pray the prayer of faith for it and receive it. He said He’d hasten His Word to perform it. He’s just looking for a faith filled person to shown Himself strong for. Angels hearken to the voice of His Word- to perform it for you, His beloved. Jesus said to ask for anything in His Name and it would be done for you. He also told you to speak to your mountains and command them to go- and they’d obey you. Faith activates Holy Spirit power. It’s the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. You receive, by faith, that which He has promised. Words actuate the power of God. We are made in His image. He spoke the world into existence; we spoke our world into existence.
These are some scriptures to start with if you have not started a list of your own, yet: (Say them outloud)
I am strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. I draw my strength from Him, that strength which His boundless might provides (Ephesians 6: 10).
The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in me and also gives life to my body (Romans 8: 11).
The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8: 2).
I am complete in Christ and the fullness of God dwells in me. All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge dwell in me through Christ Jesus (Colossians 2: 3, 9-10).
I have perfect knowledge of every circumstance and situation in life for the Spirit of Truth dwells in me (John 16: 13).
I am delivered from the power of darkness. I know the truth and the truth has set me free (Colossians 1: 13, John 8: 32).
Jesus said that whatever I bind on earth is bound in heaven and whatever I loose on earth is loosed in heaven. I now loose the blessings of God to flow into my life. I expect to be overtaken by goodness (Matthew 18: 18).
The Holy Spirit teaches me all things and brings all things to my memory. I know and remember who I am. I now use my words and my faith to manifest God’s highest and best for me! (John 14: 26).
References
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him…
Psalm 103:19-21
Darby Translation
19 Jehovah hath established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom ruleth over all.
20 Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, mighty in strength, that execute his word, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
21 Bless Jehovah, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his that do his will.
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, this will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Mark 11:23-24
For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.