Prayers Of The Spirit: Made What You Ought To Be
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Hebrews 13:20-21 (AMPC)
Now may the God of peace, who is the author and the giver of peace, who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood that sealed, ratified the everlasting agreement, covenant, testament, strengthen, complete, perfect, and make you what you ought to be and equip you with everything good that you may carry out his will.
Today we will study this prayer of the Spirit in the Amplified Classic translation. Let’s look at this again: “may the God of peace…strengthen, complete, perfect, and make you what you ought to be and equip you with everything good!” This is one of those verses that will absolutely blow your mind when you truly see what God reveals here, especially in this AMPC version. It’s another one of those verses that reveal to you just how much God loves you, how much God cares for you. Just listen to this! He says “strengthen, complete, perfect, and make you what you ought to be and equip you with everything good that you may carry out his will.”
Think about this for a moment: How many of you prior to reading this actually knew that God made provisions for you in this way? That God was already thinking about this? That He was concerned about whether you would have everything you need to fulfill His will for your life? This is incredible! This isn’t just beautiful poetry in scripture—this is a prayer point of the Holy Spirit! This is God the Father, as a responsible, loving Father, thinking about you before you were even born, before you even came into this world!
καταρτίζω katartizō make perfect – to complete, restore, mend, equip, prepare, make fully qualified
You see, so God in His wisdom was banking on His predestination—that you, would receive the gospel and get born again and you now being in Christ, one day would get to find out what His will is and discover these prayer points of the Holy Spirit, and that you can use them to enforce His will into your life. Hallelujah! He thought about you. He thought about the life you were going to come into this world to face and experience. He thought about the things you would have to face, the things you would have to deal with. And as a loving Father, He prepared this prayer of the Spirit for us so that we could enforce it in prayer and prosper!
Now we looked at the word “perfect” in the Greek—katartizō yesterday which means to complete, to restore, to mend, to equip, to prepare, to make fully qualified! This is being made fit for purpose! So God is saying that through your establishment of this prayer in your life, “I’m going to restore what’s broken in your life. If anything is not the way it needs to be, He says I’m going to mend, I’m going to furnish and complete what’s lacking and make you fully qualified for the assignment I’ve given you!”
ἀγαθός agathos good – excellent, distinguished, upright, honorable, beneficial, profitable, useful
And then He says He will “equip you with everything good.” And when we look at this Greek word for “good”—agathos. It means excellent, distinguished, beneficial, profitable, useful! So when God says He’s equipping you with everything good, He’s talking about excellent resources, distinguished provisions, beneficial tools, profitable assets, useful equipment—everything that is specifically suited to help you carry out His will! This is how thoughtful and amazing and loving God is!
So God doesn’t want you to be a struggle to fulfill His will! It can never be a struggle when you get a hold of this Word, when you get a hold of a verse like this and it is given to you as a prayer point of the Spirit. You see, some of you have been praying for certain things and you’re not really aware that a lot of these things that you’re looking for, that you want to do, that you want to accomplish, that you’re praying and asking God for—He already included them in His Word in these prayers of the Spirit!
Everyday you must say to yourself, “I am equipped with everything good. I am equipped! Thank You, Heavenly Father, for equipping me, for providing for me with everything good to fulfill Your will!” So stop struggling and striving to succeed in your own strength. Understand that your loving Heavenly Father has already made provision for you to be made what you ought to be. He’s already decided to strengthen you, complete you, perfect you, and equip you with everything good to fulfill your destiny!
Is there something you’re lacking? Is there a skill you’re lacking? Is there an ability you’re lacking? Is there some resource you’re lacking? This will of God, this prayer point of the Holy Spirit covers all of that! Because when God says He will equip you with “everything good,” He means everything. Not some things. Not most things. Everything that you need to be successful and fulfill your destiny!
Pray The Word
Heavenly Father, I thank You that You are the God of peace who strengthens, completes, perfects, and makes me what I ought to be. I receive Your divine equipping today—everything good that I need to carry out Your will for my life. Thank You for thinking about me before I was born, for making provisions for me in Christ Jesus. I declare that I am not struggling to fulfill Your will because You have equipped me with everything excellent, beneficial, and profitable to succeed, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Speak The Word
The Spirit of God is busy working in me making me what I ought to be! He strengthens, completes, perfects, and equips me with everything good to fulfill my destiny! God is supplying therefore I am not lacking any skill, any ability, or any resource needed to carry out God’s will for my life. I am fully equipped with everything excellent, beneficial, and profitable to fulfill my divine destiny in Christ Jesus, in the name of Jesus!
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