Prayer Life...What?
Most of us have an understanding of prayer. Which is - prayer is something special that we do for God. While we "do" pray and this is special to and for God, this doing is just part of the prayer life.
Yes, prayer is life, and life is prayer. You being aware of this depends solely upon two things. God's leading and your yielding. If you are in a dynamic relationship with God, by His Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit - then these two keys, God's leading and your yielding, are in you 24/7.
As children of God, we are blessed with a real relationship with our Abba/Daddy, 24/7. This is our new framework and essence of living, not necessarily the kneeling, agonizing of an act. While you may be there, agonizing, kneeling that is not the essence your new life in Him, your prayer life. This life, our lifeline so to speak, is in His presence, and as we become more aware of this truth, we grow more like Him and are conformed to His image. In other words, we feed on the truth of the living word, as milk first and then as bread and meat and grow into the image of who we are spiritually - God's child, Christ-like.
Our understanding of prayer is not what is important. Our acceptance of new life, His, and remaining teachable to what the Holy Spirit teaches us and leads us into, and brings to our remembrance, these are important. First and foremost it is who we are and then what we do.
It is in our new prayer life that we find out who we are, and whose we are. Jesus' prayer for us was that we would be one even as He and Father God are one in John Chapter 17. This one ness is not obtained through or by actions, but by birth, and by new life. Prayer is the breathing of new life in and the activation of manifested growth in our new life, even as we still live in these earthen vessels, our earth suits.
Prayer Life is not difficult nor does it need in depth study; but now you do need to be conscious of this fact, your new life is prayer life. Being in Communion with Him, being in His presence 24/7, intimate and one - with our Lord God, our Savior, our Brother, our bridegroom, our Comforter, Leader and Guider - GOD; all part of our new life. These facets along with finding out whose we are, partaking of His divine nature - prayer - calling those things that are not as though they are, and those things that are as though they are not - these are some of the many sides of this prayer life we are all living.
In this prayer life we are not all called to be hands or eyes or feet. No, we are called and placed in our new life according to God's purpose. Some of us we go on into deeper areas of prayer - intercession, spiritual warfare. These are areas of maturity and of course God's calling. We do all have a beginning as with our first birth; and the first thing we get to do in our new life is breath, cry, feed, grow and learn.
Behind the Veil
Before you can really begin to learn about prayer-life, you must go behind the veil. You know the one that was rent from top to bottom, split, torn when Jesus died on the cross. This ended the "special" person only can enter in to the Holy of Holies, and opened the way for all who will. All who will choose new life in Jesus Christ - all can enter in to the Holy of Holies, the very present and throne room of God Almighty.
So have you gone behind the veil? Some of you may be asking, what is the point here, I thought this was about prayer life. And so it is. Prayer life begins in His presence, and at the throne. If you are not aware of this, then take a moment to consider. Access was provided not for us to stand way out in the outer court and cry out "IF IT BE THY WILL" and wondering if God even heard us. Access was provided for us to "be" in His presence, to live and move and have our being in Him.
Prayer life and prayer are intimate and powerful, and they take place in the Holy of Holies. In fact, it is because many don't know this that prayers become sing/song and repetitive, and anything but personal. Just think for a moment.
Here we are in God our Father's presence, made possible by the blood of His only begotten Son, Jesus, our Lord. We have entered in through the new and living way, the cross and resurrection, by the leading of God's Holy Spirit. So why are we squeezing our eyes tightly shut, and pretending to be holy by being on our knees and bowing our head, but not really acknowledging God. Would you do this to your brother/sister/husband/child/friend you were visiting?
