Have you thought about how prayer is related to our inheritance in Christ? When we are saved by grace through faith, we begin to enter into the inheritance of God. We have obtained the pardon for sin through the blood of Jesus. At this point, God “accepts our offerings, our prayers, our praises, our heart’s love.” Prior to salvation, we are not able to please God. We have no entrance into the throne room and our righteousness’s are filthy rags. Romans 8 talks about us becoming the children of God.
Romans 8:17 says, “And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.”
We are joint-heirs with Christ, but heirs of God. We are not heirs of a man or even the richest man in the world. We are heirs of the Almighty Living God. He gives us so many blessings; this article cannot contain the list. We should remember that prayer is one of those privileges of our inheritance in Christ.
We are “sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.” (Ephesians 1:13b, 14) The Holy Spirit helps us to pray as we should. Romans 8:26 says, “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” Our prayer life is directly helped by the leading of the Holy Spirit, who is the “earnest of our inheritance.”
If we understand the privilege of prayer, and how it’s part of our inheritance, we begin to understand the awesome power that God can and will show through answered prayer. E.M. Bounds said, “Prayer is simply…faith taking possession of its illimitable inheritance.”
