Magic vs. Witchcraft Part 4: How to Influence God When All You Have is Inherited Power

Magic vs. Witchcraft Part 4

How to Influence God When All You Have is Inherited Power

So inherited power is the ability to influence the one in charge because you are related to him.  It is also the ability to influence the servants of the one in charge because you are related to the one in charge.  Therefore, in order to get what you want you must do something to influence the person who has what you want.  In other words, if all you have is inherited power then you need to do something besides just commanding things in order to get the things that you desire. 

Now remember, when you were born you immediately inherited this power.  You can go to God for anything, and He will listen to your situation and determine if you should get what you want or not.  So how do you do this effectively?

Let’s return to the example of a child.  How does a child get something from their parents?  How does a child influence their mom or dad to get that toy or that video game system or that ball or whatever it is that they want? 

A child will get what they want by doing one of four things:

1.      Demanding: A child may try to get what they want by commanding their parents to do it.  This doesn’t usually work too well.  A parent will most likely punish a child for daring to disrespect them like this.  If we as parents don’t want our kids disrespecting us, do you think God would?  Therefore, my advice is that you shouldn’t go around demanding that God give you something and then getting mad and throwing a fit if He doesn’t.  It’s just not the right way to influence God, and it may even bring a punishment.

2.      Whining or Begging: A child often tries the begging approach because sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.  Notice how when a child does this to a parent oftentimes the parent will give in because they just don’t want to hear the whining anymore.  However, if you are a parent you’ll know what I mean when I say almost every time a parent gives in to a whining child the parent never feels good about it.  They always kind of wish they didn’t give the child what they wanted.  Sometimes whining will lead to punishment too.  We see examples if this all throughout the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.  Whenever Israel complained and whined in the desert God sometimes gave them what they wanted and sometimes cursed them.  Suffice to say this is not the best way to influence God to get what you want, so if you are always whining at Him to do something in your life maybe you need to change your approach.  Let me give you some better options.

3.      Negotiating: This is when the child strikes a deal with the parent to get what they want.  Basically, I’ll do something for you later, Dad, if you give me what I want now.  This approach can be dangerous because the end result is often far worse than the child expected.  Doing chores for a month without being asked, for example, may be next to impossible for a child, and often a child may fail at it, become frustrated, and in the end wish they didn’t make the deal in the first place.  Please be careful if you make a deal with God.  He expects you to keep your end of the bargain, and if you don’t there could be consequences.  If you make a deal with God and you keep your end of the bargain, there is nothing wrong with this.  God has no problem with someone who will keep their word.  In fact, if you do this He will honor you for keeping your word.  After all, He has trusted you and you did not disappoint.  Therefore, He knows that He can trust you with making such deals in the future with Him.  The problem comes in that most people will make these deals and once they have what they wanted they will forget the promise they made to God and just expect Him to forgive them for not keeping up their end of the bargain.  This is NOT GOOD.  This is very dangerous.  Just as a loving, human parent would not allow their children to get away with this more than maybe one or two times, so God will not allow people to get away with this kind of thing either.  If this is you, repent!  Tell God that you will now change your ways and not do this kind of thing any longer.  Then prove it by doing the fourth option below.  After some time, and you have proven you are willing to work to show God you are responsible, then God may allow you to start making deals with Him again.  Again, it is no different from a child and a human parent.  Just as a human child would have to earn trust again from their human parent, so a child of God must earn trust again from God in order to even attempt to make deals with Him again.  Besides all of this, rather than even go through all of this in the first place, God may not give you what you want through negotiation simply because He knows full well that you won’t ever keep your end of the deal.  Therefore, it is also not a really good method of influencing God.

4.      Pampering: This approach is the one God wants all of his children to use.  This is the approach every human parent wants their children to use when trying to influence them.  It is THE most effective way to influence a parent to get what you want.  It’s very much like the negotiating approach except in reverse.  The child does whatever the parent wants but without asking and before they even acquire the thing they want.  In other words, the parent comes home from work, finds housework and homework done, dinner is made, dishes are done, etc.  Now what do you think most parents will say if their child has done this?  Either “What did you do?” or “What do you want?”  With this approach, therefore, the child is showing that they are responsible BEFORE they get their blessing.  In this way, the parent sees how sincere they are about wanting that thing they are asking for and that the child knows that the parent is the source of all of their blessings.  The child shows respect and love and honor to the parent by doing things for the parent up front to bless the parent. 

Now isn’t that what we want God to say to us?  Instead of us running after God begging and pleading and feeling like He’s not listening, wouldn’t it be better to have Him approach us and say, “What do you want?”  If that’s what you want…if you want to get God’s attention…then it’s time to start pampering God.  It’s time to start doing things you know He loves and you know He wants you to do without Him even asking.  Prayer, or spending time talking to God, meditation, or spending time just listening to God and thinking about Him and His ways and the things He has done, Bible reading, going to church, worshipping God, helping others…all these things are things God wants you to do.  If you really want to influence God because you are looking to gain blessings from God, start focusing on doing these things faithfully and watch and see.  I guarantee you’ll suddenly find more and more of your prayers being answered!

Now, having said this, let me also point out that in order to EARN power you need to do all of these things as well.  If you want to earn more power, so that you can start doing miraculous healings, or speaking prophecies, or whatever it is that you desire to do, you have to please the one who has power!  

Pampering, then, is the only way to earn power too!  Just look at the Parable of the Pounds.  In Luke 19 Jesus tells how a master gave money to his servants.  When he asked for the money back, one servant only gave back what he was given.  However, the good servant invested the money wisely and gave back to the master ten times as much as he had been given.  The master was so impressed he said these famous words in verse 17, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”  Because he did what his master knew he would want him to do the servant wound up being lord over ten cities!

So in order to earn power and authority in God’s Kingdom we must DO what our God wants us to do.  We must take those things that He has given us already and we must be responsible with them.  If He has given us kids then we should be responsible and wise and loving parents or He will not want to give us more authority in His Kingdom.  If He’s given us money we should be wise with that money.  Whatever He’s given you, if you want more power and authority with Him, use that to glorify Him and watch how He increases what you have authority over.

But wait!  There’s more!  Besides these things, there are three main keys to gaining power and authority with God.  These Keys to Power allow even those with very little authority, who have not earned a good deal of responsibility yet, to influence God.  They move Him in a powerful way, and they cause Him to want even more to give a Child of God what they ask for.  Whether you are a baby Christian or a mature Christian, these Three Keys to Power will give you great influence with God.  Do you want a miracle in your life today?  Try putting these three things into practice.  God may still not give you what you ask for, so let me warn you one more time that I am not trying to give you some ritual or formula to MAKE God do something for you.  He still has ultimate say and if He doesn’t give you something it is either because it is not good for you or the timing is all wrong.  However, I guarantee that if you use these Three Keys to Power you will be blessed.  God will be moved.  He will be more apt to give you what you ask for and He will be more apt to give you greater responsibility in His Kingdom if you practice these Three Keys to Power.  You may even find that God grants you with supernatural gifts if you faithfully and continually practice using these Three Keys.

To continue on this topic, please read The Three Keys to Power Part 1.