NEW SEASON – NEW SPIRITUAL WARFARE LEVEL© - 2

PRAYER-LIFE© –

see the followings which I wrote in beginning in 2002 - 2008:

PRAYER LIFE – WHAT?:© 2008

Most of us have an understanding of prayer.  Which is - prayer is something special that we do . . . for other people.  While we ‘do’ pray and this is special to and for God, this ‘doing’ is just part of our 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 alive in you 24/7. 

As children of God, we are blessed with a real relationship with our Abba/Daddy, 24/7.  This real relationship is our new framework and our essence of living, (not necessarily the kneeling, agonizing of an act) – which sacrifice is part of crying out and seeking God with all your heart.  However while you may be there, agonizing and kneeling, this is not the basic essence of your new life in Him, your prayer-life. 

Our prayer-life, which is our true lifeline of authority, is in His presence.  And as we become more aware of our true prayer-life, we spiritually grow more like Him (Jesus-God) and are conformed to His image. 

In other words in prayer-life, 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.  And as we do feed, daily, on the living-written word, we are being conformed, transformed spiritually, into the image of Christ – our risen brother. 

If you research the definition of Christ, Christ means anointed one, and we know that Jesus Christ rose from hell, death and the grave.  And has given us ALL Authority . . . yes?  Yes.

So to be conformed to the image of Christ, means we live and move and have our being, anointed and in all authority, by Him, in Him, with Him within us.

Our understanding of prayer is not only what is important—our new-life is key to all that we are and do in Christ. 

Our acceptance of new life is based on:

v  His life, and

v  remaining teachable to what the Holy Spirit teaches us

• and leads us into,
• and brings/quickens to our remembrance

These are of key importance in our new life. 

First and foremost we learn and grow in who we are/ whose we are  and then what we do and how (as in gaining more authority) we do manifests more and more.  As a baby grows and learns day by day, so do we in God, in Christ, in new life. 

And as a child we do not know the ‘allness’ of who we are and what we are doing.  As we grow older and learn from our ‘parents’ we begin to develop into the children and adults, so it is with being a child of God. 

It is in our new intimate and dynamic relationship with God, our heavenly Father which is 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 (how we perform), but by birth, and by new life.

Prayer is the breathing of our Creator’s new life in us and the activation of manifested growth in our new life, even as we still live in these earthen vessels, our earth suits.  Similar to a child in the womb, yes? 

Jesus told the first followers to pray ‘Our Father’ for a good reason.  In preparation of the ‘radical restoration’ process of spiritual new birth, Jesus laid down the important outline of who we are and whose we are, simply. 

As we speak, we process our thoughts and renew our minds – ‘Our Father’ prepares us for the new life we have entered into, and is with us always – this is possible only through our choosing to be ‘born again’.

Jesus also said a seed must fall into the earth and die. . . and becoming a human being, he was a living soul – the seed created in the image of God, Jesus prophesied what was to come – life out of death and the reason for this:  John 12:24

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

In Jesus’ death, living soul-seed that He was, He brought forth the way for ‘much fruit’ more living souls – birthing into quickening spirits. 

1 Corinthians 15:45
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.  So when we are born again, we are birthed into quickening (as is powerful and in God’s authority) spirits.  For God is Spirit.

2 John 4:24:

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

3 John 3:5 
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

So, the first birth is of water – the unborn are contained in water and when the placenta breaks the water comes out first and then the baby is born. 

The Second birth, when we are born again, we ask for Jesus, who is the Living Word to come into our hearts, and the water of life pours in and the spirit is awakened and birthed – we become children of Spirit, children of God, and enter into God’s Kingdom – in full authority, just not aware or experienced in it yet. 

Prayer-Life is not difficult although it needs daily, Spirit led learning and growing.  This is why the ‘reading’ and ‘studying’ of the word is key – in this way we are partakers of the Living Word – initially the milk, bread of spiritual life.

John 6:32 
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.

John 6:33
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world

  John 6:35
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst

  John 6:48-51   

I am that bread of life.

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world

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Stop here, and meditate on what you have read, or go and read the scriptures and pray to Abba-God that the Holy Spirit will enlighten the eyes of your understanding so that you will KNOW the truth and BE free.

After meditation and journaling continue on, praying for God our heavenly Father’s will to be done in you only – acknowledge God in your reading and studying, and God will direct your path: