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!
Amen brother, I'm encouraged to enter into the Holy of Holies and burn the incense so that my prayer may be effective. It's true that when we touch the Spirit, He unleashes such an unimaginable resource that we find ourselves praying for things we would never be able to pray otherwise--and most of those prayers--in my experience--are not for ourselves but for God's house, for our brothers and sisters in the Lord. I'm also emboldened to touch the river "flowing beneath those black and white letters" of the Bible. And yes, the Word is a person, Christ Himself.
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Praise the Lord my brother! What we need today is less doing and more incense burning!!! We can even burn it while getting into the riches in the word by pray-reading... Brother I'm encouraged to dive in, beyond mere letters and into the river that's beneath them, hallelujah! There's an underground river of life and we have to dig in! Thanks for your portion bro!
ReplyDeletePuxa, muito rico! I understood almost all things and could touch in the spirit of this words. Oh Lord Jesus! Amen! Give me this reality for my daily life!
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