Many believers spend most of their prayer time asking God for more: more faith, more love, more peace, etc. They do this while thinking that the answers to their problems would come if God would just give them more ________ (you can fill in the blank). Life becomes an unending pursuit of trying to convince God to give them more, while frustration and condemnation build.
Yet in many of the epistles, written to believers, Paul is not continually asking God to give them more. Instead, he asks God to allow them to see what they already have, currently possess, in their union with Jesus Christ. This is exactly the opposite of what many are requesting. When we see what God has already provided to us and who we have become in Christ, this revelation will position us for breakthrough after breakthrough.
This is why Paul wrote the church as Colossae “and in Him, you have been made complete.”
The Holy Spirit inspired Paul to write a number of prayers that we can pray over ourselves and other believers. Praying God’s Word over ourselves will enable us to see ourselves as He sees us and allow us to speak His Word with faith and boldness.