If you are "claiming" something in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ then you are blaspheming God. Have you no reverence for God, His wisdom, and His will?
1 John 5:14-15
"14 This is the confidence which we have [a]before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him."
If we demand things of God as though He were a puppet in our hands then we are making a god in our own image.
We are not to demand things from God, this is self-will. The prosperity preachers are teaching the opposite of what God teaches. They are blaspheming the character and nature of God when they teach that He is to do our bidding.
Will you come before the Lord bowing with your face to the ground in reverence for His Kingship, or will you come standing straight demanding your will of Him? If you come face up demanding from God you will be struck down by the breath of His mouth.
Job 4:8-9 "…8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. 9 By the breath of God, they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed."
Isaiah 40:12-14 "…12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance? 13Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or who has given Him counsel? 14Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?…"
Romans 11:34
"Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?"
How dare us to command God! God clearly said "if we ask in His will", then He will answer. Often God prompts us to pray what He wants, which means that we are to desire to know the mind of Christ that we might glorify Him.
1 Corinthians 2:16
"For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
When we have the mind of Christ we will know His will. Often people claim that their own thoughts are the will of God, but often it is the devil who is placing those thoughts.
How do we know when a thought is from the devil or from God? It's quite simple really, we simply pray for God's direction and He will answer. If we command God to do our will He will not answer us.
John 14:26
"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you."
Any desires we have must be prayed about and the mind of the Lord sought to find His direction.
Psalm 25:12
"Who is the man who fears the Lord? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose."
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