As new creation family, we've already been "seated together with Jesus is heavenly places." Ephesians 2:6 (Amplified) says, "And He raised us up together with Him (Jesus) and made us sit down together (giving us joint seating with Him) in the heavenly sphere (by virtue of our being) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One0."
Many of us believe the above scripture means we'll be together with Him in heaven, but this isn't what it's truly saying. It means, now that we are new creatures in Christ, we share with Him in the authority that was given Jesus. We are still in this world, but we are "not of this world," according to John 17:16 (Amplified) where Jesus says, "They are not of the world (worldly, belonging to the world), (just) as I am not of the world."
We don't really associate ourselves with who we truly are as new creations in Christ Jesus, because we remain in this natural body. So, many believe that the new creation will come when we leave this earth. Even though Jesus had a flesh and blood body, He wasn't of the world, when He was here. Because of the new birth, we've been born again into the Kingdom of God's sons and daughters. We hold a position with Him as ambassadors from another Kingdom, here on earth. 2Corinthians 5:20 (Amplified) says, "So we are Christ's ambassadors."
The greatest reason our prayers don't get answered or we fail to see God move in the way He wishes to, isn't because of faith, but because of a lack of knowledge about who we are. We mostly see ourselves like we were, rather than who Jesus has made us to be. We've tried functioning in the new Kingdom, by the same laws we've always lived by here in this world. The Kingdom of Heaven has different laws by which we're now supposed to learn and walk in.
Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, (because of the previous verses) (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging of guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit, For the law of the Spirit of Life (which is) in Christ Jesus (the law of our new being) has freed me from the Law of Sin and Death." The law of sin and death is the law of our old self, while the Law of the Spirit of Life is that of our new being.
When we no longer allow our flesh dictate the old law to us, we can walk in the Law that governs our new being and the new Kingdom from which we now belong. I know that this scripture is also referring to "sin of the flesh," but is referring more to "knowing the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus." If we continue living under the old law of sin and death, then the flesh and devil will always have us under condemnation and guilt for everything we do or don't do. The Law of the Spirit of Life will set you free from this old anchor of guilt and allow you to live by your new birth in Christ Jesus.
We know we cannot use the laws governing our U.S. citizenship and live by them in another country around the world. If I gave up my citizenship from Ireland and moved to and became an American citizen, then I would need to learn new laws to insure my life here. Hanging onto and operating under the old laws of Ireland could be dangerous for me in America. Drivers in Ireland drive on the other side of the road, than we use in America. If I remained driving on the same side of the road I used in Ireland, here in America, then I could possibly be killed or kill someone else. It wouldn't because America is angry at me or that I didn't care, but because I violated the laws governing this land.
Many would say, "You never know what God is going to do." In reality though, we haven't learned to live by the new laws of our new Kingdom. Jesus said in Matthew 18:18-18 (Amplified), "Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth must be what is already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be what is already permitted in heaven." Verse 19 goes on, "Again I tell you, if two of you on earth agree (harmonize together, make a symphony together) about whatever (anything and everything) they may ask, it will come to pass and be done for them by My Father in heaven."
We've been waiting to arrive in heaven, in order to function in what it's Laws don't permit or allow and we've not determined what should or should not be allowed to become law, here in this world. If heaven doesn't back up some of the things we "bind or loose" here, then maybe we should find out what heaven will "bind or loose." If we will bother seeing out the Laws of the Kingdom of heaven, then we can function in them by God's Own promise.
When we think about laws, we think about the Mosaic Law, the Law of Moses, along with the rituals and sacrifices and ceremonies that go with them. This isn't what these scripture are referring to. If this was true, then we would still need to offer up sacrifices and perform ceremonies today. The laws that Jesus speaks of aren't the laws of man (man made) used to get prayers answered, but the Laws of heaven, for the men and women who now belong to heaven. One set of laws is made for helping sinful man to approach God, while the other is for those who now have constant access to God, by Jesus. One set of laws was to "keep" man while he was still worldly, while the other is for those who are no longer of this world.
When Jesus taught men how to pray (what we call The Lord's Prayer), He said to pray "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," in Matthew 6:10. We must understand what God's will is in heaven, in order to understand this powerful way of praying. God's way of doing things in heaven have not changed, He has set up a system of laws that govern heaven and they are "forever settled." Psalm 119:89 (Amplified) tells us, "Forever, O Lord, Your Word is settled in heaven (stands firm as the heavens)."
God cannot alter His Word, even for "our welfare or benefit.) If He altered even one part of it, then it would make the rest of His Word untrustworthy. He is just and truly faithful to what He has spoken. Hebrews 1:3 (Amplified) says, "He (Jesus) is the sole expression of the glory of God (the Light-being, the Out-raying or radiance of the divine) And He is the perfect imprint and very Image of (God's) nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty Word of power."
If God altered His Word or changed His Word for us, then His Word wouldn't be able to uphold Jesus in what He has done, because Jesus is the Word and is unchangeable. John 1:14 (Amplified) says, "And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh lived awhile) among us." 1John 5:7 (Amplified) says, "So there are three witnesses in heave; the Father, the Word (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit, and these three are One."
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