15 PRAY FOR PARDON AS AN ADOPTED HEIR.

If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.

     —Exodus 34:9

We have been adopted (Romans 8). Our adoption as the heirs of God gives us the privilege of claiming our inheritance in prayer.

When we present a withdrawal slip or write a check on our account in the bank, we expect to have funds available to us. On our behalf, God has made a deposit for us, his heirs, in the name of Christ Jesus in heaven.

We draw upon our inheritance of life, power, authority, and abundance as we pray. The pin number that accesses our account is JESUS. That access code has been given to us through His pardon of our sins.

In prayer, claim your inheritance. The pardon has been granted. The deposit has been made. In the deposit of His Spirit we have received all that we need to operate as His heirs.

“In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory” (Eph. 1:13–14).

Father,

As Your adopted child through the blood of Jesus, I claim my inheritance of life, abundance, power, grace, favor, and glory, so that I may live in power and authority, to do and declare Your will in every area of my life. Amen.