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Did you ever hear something like this at a prayer meeting, “Lord,
I’m asking you right now, to bless so and so, or bless the
missionaries.” Do you realize that’s an unscriptural prayer?
When you pray that God should bless somebody, you’re saying
you don’t understand Ephesians chapter 1. God has already
blessed every saint, with every blessing. So what are you
asking, when you pray to bless somebody? Many times it’s just a
statement full of unbelief. The only scriptural way to pray that
God would bless somebody, is in the sense of claiming the
blessing. It’s already there. God has already blessed you. He
can only open your eyes to what’s already there. He can’t give
you anything else. When you got saved, you got everything.
We’ll never get another thing except eyes to see it.

Much confusion surrounding prayer, is rooted in a
misunderstanding between the physical and the spiritual. Jesus
taught us to trust God for physical things, “Those things the
gentiles seek”, and knock yourself out, seeking, “The kingdom
of God and His righteousness”.

He also reminded us that, “All these things,” our physical
necessities, “Would be added”. That which we fervently seek,
reveals the true passion and desire of our heart. Because the
physical is always temporary, and a mere shadow of the reality
that is to come, the Lord’s economy will always sacrifice the
lesser, for the greater. He will do everything in His power, to see
your spirit and soul complete in Him.

When we get into Paul’s prayer in Chapter 1, we see how he
prays that the eyes of our hearts would be opened. Fellow
Christians, fellow saints, and fellow billionaires, we “have been”
blessed by God. And blessed!!! with every blessing. When I
sign my letters, “The Lord Bless You Real Good”, that’s nice, but
spiritually inaccurate. We are asking Him to do, what He’s
already done. Thanking Him for His blessings, is more in line
with reality. I speak as a fool. God stands frustrated in heaven,
because He can’t give again, what He’s already given.