We agree with A.W. Tozer,
"That our idea of God correspond as nearly as
possible to the true being of God is of immense
importance to us. Compared with our actual thoughts
about Him, our creedal statements are
of little consequence. Our real idea of God may lie
buried under the rubbish of conventional religious
notions and may require an intelligent and vigorous
search before it is finally unearthed and exposed
for what it is."
In other words, if you want to know what a person
(or an organization) really believes, their creeds
may not tell you nearly as much as how they live. Or
perhaps, how they pray.
The core of what we believe, live in, and teach may
be best captured in our daily prayer...
(which can be found in the Wild At Heart Field
Manual and Waking The Dead).
My dear Lord Jesus I come to you now to be restored
in you, to be renewed in you, to receive your love
and your life, and all the grace and mercy I so
desperately need this day. I honor you as my
Sovereign, and I surrender every aspect of my life
totally and completely to you. I give you my spirit,
soul and body, my heart, mind, and will. I cover
myself with your blood - my spirit, soul, and body,
my heart, mind and will. I ask your Holy Spirit to
restore me in you,
renew me in you, and to lead me in this time of
prayer. In all that I now pray, I stand in total
agreement with your Spirit, and with my intercessors
and allies, by your Spirit alone.
[Now, if you are a husband, you'll want to include
your wife in this time of prayer. If you are a
parent, you'll want to include your children. If
this doesn't apply to you, jump to the paragraph
after this one.]
In all that I now pray, I include (my wife and/or
children, by name). Acting as their head, I bring
them under your authority and covering, as I come
under your authority and covering. I cover (wife
and/or children, by name) with your blood - their
spirit, soul and body, their heart, mind and will. I
ask your Spirit to restore them in you, renew them
in you, and apply to them all that
I now pray on their behalf, acting as their head.
Dear God, holy and victorious Trinity, you alone are
worthy of all my worship, my heart's devotion, all
my praise, all my trust and all the glory of my
life. I love you, I worship you,
I trust you. I give myself over to you in my heart's
search for life. You alone are Life, and you have
become my life. I renounce all other gods, all
idols, and I give you the place in my heart and in
my life that you truly deserve. I confess here and
now that this is all about you, God, and not about
me. You are the Hero of this story, and I belong to
you. Forgive me for my every sin. Search me and know
me and reveal to me where you are working in my
life, and grant to me the grace of your healing and
deliverance, and a deep and true repentance.
Heavenly Father, thank you for loving me and
choosing me before you made the world. You
are my true Father - my Creator, my Redeemer, my
Sustainer, and the true end of all things, including
my life. I love you, I trust you, I worship you. I
give myself over to you to be one with you in all
things, as Jesus is one with you. Thank you for
proving your love by sending Jesus. I receive him
and all his life and all his work, which you
ordained for me. Thank you for including me in
Christ, for forgiving me my sins, for granting me
his righteousness, for making me complete in him.
Thank you for making me alive with Christ, raising
me with him, seating me
with him at your right hand, establishing me in his
authority, and anointing me with your Holy Spirit,
your love and your favor. I receive it all with
thanks and give it total claim to my life - my
spirit, soul, and body, my heart, mind and will. I
bring the life and the work of Jesus over (wife
and/or children, by name) and over my home, my
household, my vehicles, finances, all my kingdom and
domain.
Jesus, thank you for coming to ransom me with your
own life. I love you, I worship you, I trust you. I
give myself over to you, to be one with you in all
things. And I receive all the work and all of the
triumph of your cross, death, blood and sacrifice
for me, through which I am atoned for,
I am ransomed and transferred to your kingdom, my
sin nature is removed, my heart is circumcised unto
God, and every claim made against me is disarmed
this day. I now take my place in your cross and
death, through which I have died with you to sin, to
my flesh, to the world, and to the evil one. I take
up the cross and crucify my flesh with all its
pride, arrogance, unbelief, and idolatry (and
anything else you are currently struggling with). I
put off the old man. I ask you to apply to me the
fullness of your cross, death, blood and sacrifice.
I receive it with thanks and give it total claim to
my spirit, soul and body, my heart, mind and will.
Jesus, I also sincerely receive you as my life, my
holiness and strength, and I receive all the
work and triumph of your resurrection, through which
you have conquered sin and death and judgment. Death
has no mastery over you, nor does any foul thing.
And I have been raised with you to a new life, to
live your life - dead to sin and alive to God. I now
take my place in your resurrection and in your life,
through which I am saved by your life. I reign in
life through your life. I receive your life - your
humility, love and forgiveness, your integrity in
all things, your wisdom, discernment and cunning,
your strength, your joy, your union with the Father.
Apply to me the fullness of your resurrection. I
receive it with thanks and give it total claim to my
spirit, soul and body, my heart, mind and will.
Jesus, I also sincerely receive you as my authority,
rule, and dominion, my everlasting victory against
Satan and his kingdom, and my ability to bring your
Kingdom at all times and in every way. I receive all
the work and triumph of your ascension, through
which you have judged
Satan and cast him down, you have disarmed his
kingdom. All authority in heaven and on earth has
been given to you, Jesus. All authority in heaven
and on earth has been given to you, and you are
worthy to receive all glory and honor, power and
dominion, now and forevermore.
And I have been given fullness in you, in your
authority. I now take my place in your ascension,
and in your throne, through which I have been raised
with you to the right hand of the Father and
established in your authority. I now bring the
kingdom of God, and the authority, rule and dominion
of Jesus Christ over my life today, over my home, my
household, my vehicles and finances, over all my
kingdom and domain.
I now bring the authority, rule and dominion of the
Lord Jesus Christ, and the fullness of the work of
Christ, against Satan, against his kingdom, against
every foul and unclean spirit come against me. (At
this point you might want to name the spirits that
you know have been attacking you). I bring the full
work of Jesus Christ against every foul power and
black art, against every human being and their
warfare. I bind it all from me in the authority of
the Lord Jesus Christ
and in his Name.
Holy Spirit, thank you for coming. I love you, I
worship you, I trust you. I sincerely receive you
and all the work and victory in Pentecost, through
which you have come, you have clothed me with power
from on high, sealed me in Christ. You have become
my union with the Father and the Son, become the
Spirit of truth in me, the life of God in me, my
Counselor, Comforter, Strength, and Guide. I honor
you as my Sovereign, and I yield every dimension of
my spirit,
soul and body, my heart, mind and will to you and
you alone, to be filled with you, to walk in step
with you in all things. Fill me afresh. Restore my
union with the Father and the Son. Lead me in all
truth, anoint me for all of my life and walk and
calling, and lead me deeper into Jesus today.
I receive you with thanks, and I give you total
claim to my life.
Heavenly Father, thank you for granting to me every
spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ
Jesus. I claim the riches in Christ Jesus over my
life today, my home, my kingdom and domain. I bring
the blood of Christ over my spirit, soul, and body,
my heart, mind and will. I
put on the full armor of God - the belt of truth,
breastplate of righteousness, shoes of the gospel,
helmet of salvation. I take up the shield of faith
and sword of the Spirit, and I choose to wield these
weapons at all times in the power of God. I choose
to pray at all times in the Spirit.
Thank you for your angels. I summon them in the
authority of Jesus Christ and command to destroy the
kingdom of darkness throughout my kingdom and
domain, destroy all that is raised against me, and
to establish your Kingdom throughout my kingdom and
domain. I ask you to send forth your Spirit to raise
up prayer and intercession for me this day. I now
call forth the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ
throughout my home, my family, my kingdom and my
domain, in the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ,
with all glory and honor and thanks to him.
For those needing/desiring a few more thoughts...
- We believe the Bible to be the inspired, only,
infallible, inerrant, authoritative Word of God.
- We believe in the One True God, The Sovereign,
eternal Creator of all that exists, both seen and
unseen. God is eternally existent in three persons,
yet one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in
His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His
miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through
His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His
ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in
His personal return in power and glory.
- We believe God created mankind in His image. Adam
and Eve, the first human beings, chose to rebel
against God and go their own way. As a result, all
of mankind became separated from God; the image of
God in man was distorted; mankind became subject to
the power of the devil; and the sinful nature was
passed on to all their progeny. Because of original
sin, unregenerate human beings are incapable of
pleasing or commending themselves to God. The only
remedy for mankind's pitiful predicament is
redemption through faith in Jesus Christ.
- We believe that when a person exercises saving faith
in Christ he passes, immediately, out of spiritual
death into spiritual life and from the old creation
into the new, a new nature and a new heart imparted;
being justified freely by grace, he is accepted
before the Father as Christ, His Son, is accepted
and loved as Christ is loved--having his place and
portion linked to Christ and one with Christ -
forever.
- We believe in the present ministry of the Holy
Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is
enabled to live a godly life.
- We believe in the resurrection of, both, the saved
and the lost--they who are saved unto the
resurrection of life and they who are lost unto the
resurrection of damnation.
- We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in
our Lord Jesus Christ.
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