Yes, Prayer, the Spirit, and the Word. For our growth in life we need these 3 aspects in our daily life. Oh that we would exercise our spirit daily in practicing these things!
To pray is to burn the incense to God. For this we need to enter into the Holy of Holies (Our spirit mingled with the Lord Spirit).Calling on the Lord's name, groaning, and waiting can help us enter in. In this mingled environment, the Lord can pray through us as we pray and our prayer can be so effective! Sometimes we don't have the words to speak, but our spirit can be groaning, even audibly! And the Spirit can intercede for us, how wonderful!! When we have such a burden our mind cannot quite help that much. At other times we need to use our mind to help in our utterance. Speaking means a lot to God, so when we speak it is our believing and our prayer can be released as burning incense. Our mind, however, needs to be harnessed by our mingled spirit.
The Spirit is the All-inclusive Spirit! Hallelujah! Everything we need is in the Spirit!. We can be filled inwardly and clothed outwardly with this Spirit. Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom! When we touch the indwelling Spirit we can tap into a resource that beyond our imagination, thoughts, or desires. It is like a river and we need to be swept away in it! Just like we see with the picture in Ezekiel.
The Word is the Lord Himself. The written word has no positive use unless the Word unlocks it. Watchmen Nee once said that the secret of the bible is to see Christ in every line. There is a river flowing beneath those black letters and to touch this river is to receive the written word into us for our reality and life. When we come to the written word it is important to enter in by praying and exercising our spirit. Basically we need the fellowship with the Word so that we can receive the word. Hallelujah!!!
Prayer, the Spirit, and the Word!
