Consecration is a process or practice of making something or someone sacred. It also is defined as to offer, devote, yield or set apart for some holy purpose. God requires His people to yield to Him continually, giving ourselves to the Lord to become a living sacrifice, as Paul said in Romans 12:1: …present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. This is what brings God’s blessing and makes progress possible in our lives.
Consecration is being dedicated and set apart for the Lord. It also means the devoting or setting apart of anything or anyone to the worship or service of God; it means sanctification, to make clean. This is a requirement for answers to prayer. It is written: If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: (Psalm 66:8).
Prayer is a relationship with God and sin breaks the link, because …friendship of the world is enmity with God (James 4:4). It takes purity of heart to access God, so we need to consecrate ourselves to gain access to God in prayer.
Christian living takes daily consecration; there’s need to keep surrendering to God’s will, keeping yourself unspotted by the world and continuing to be dedicated in service and obedience to the will of God. It is written, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart (Psalm 40:8).
This makes you subject yourself to the authority and will of God. It is about preferring His will above yours and living in obedience to His word. So, we need to know His word and His direction for our daily lives. This is applicable not only when we are uncertain about God’s will, but also when we are aware of it and understand that it may require great effort, necessitating God’s empowerment.
Jesus exemplified this type of prayer in the garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:39). Though it wasn’t easy to bear the burden of dying on the cross, He knew that was the will of God, so, He consecrated Himself to successfully go through it.
Consecration is the foundation for answers to prayers. Once you are in right standing with God and your prayer is in accordance with His will, your sweatless triumph on the altar of prayer is guaranteed.
shalom!
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Jesus is Lord.