Eph. 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
In light of the fact that we are in union with Christ, by our mutual indwelling, and the fact that we are seated in the heavenly places in Christ, we need a paradigm shift in how we pray. It’s imperative that we discover that as “in Christ people,” we pray from Heaven toward Earth, and not from Earth toward Heaven. Most Christians spend their time praying from their battlefield toward Heaven, but in light of our new position in Christ we are privileged to pray from Heaven into our battlefield. You might ask what is the difference, and the answer is when we pray from our battlefield toward heaven we’re praying in hope, but when we pray from heaven toward our battlefield we are praying in authority, and faith. The “rest of faith” happens as the result of looking downward from an up position, instead of upward from a down position. Jesus saw everything with an ascended mind, and in union with Him, seated in the heavenly places in Him, we’re called to live and pray seeing the same way.