Saturday, 12 March 2016

Pray According to God

Rom. 8:26 - Moreover, in like manner the Spirit also joins in to help us in our weakness, for we do not know for what we should pray as is fitting, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Rom. 8:27 - But He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to God.

Today the Lord spoke to me concerning prayer like never before. As I delved on the significance of the golden incense altar as a type of an interceding Christ, I was enlightened to see that Christ, the Spirit, has always been interceding for me(Hebrew 7:25.) Besides, He does this as the Christ, who is at the right hand of God the Father(Romans 8:34) and also as the Spirit who is in my spirit (Romans 8:26-37, 2 Timothy 4:22).  My responsibility is to join myself to the already interceding Christ who is in my spirit and be fully one with Him. When this state of prayer is attained by being gained in my person first, then I would pray only what the Spirit has been praying. My only prayer can only be according to God, for it is not I any longer, but Christ who lives in me(Galatians 2:20) praying.

Well, to experience the subjectivity of a true intercessory prayer, I must pass through the altar of burnt offering, the bronze laver, the showbread table and the golden lampstand before I can pray at the golden incense altar in the Holy place before the Holy of Holies. Subjectively, my self must be thoroughly and completely dealt with to become ashes and then I can experience the true intercessory prayer.

Lord, gain my life to be a man of prayer, yes, a man praying at the golden incense altar.

Following this experience of the truth I prayed and the Lord confirmed certain matters to be addressed immediately. My sky became very clear as to what need to be done according to God, regarding my academic future, my service and my function in the Body.

As a result I also shared this enjoyment with all my Christian contacts that they may be blessed as well.

Lord, grace me to pray according to God!

Footnote on "weakness" from the Holy Bible, Recovery Version.
The weakness here is our ignorance of how we should pray. We do not know the kind of prayer God desires, and we are not clear how to pray, according to the burden we feel, for our being conformed to the image of God’s Son; hence, we groan (v. 23). In our groaning the Spirit groans also, interceding for us. His interceding is mainly that we may experience the transformation in life for growth into the maturity of sonship that we may be fully conformed to the image of God’s Son.
Footnote on "according to God" from the Holy Bible, Recovery Version.
The interceding Spirit prays for us not according to something of God but according to God Himself, that we may be conformed to the image of God’s Son.

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