Prayer

Prayer is that that God has given to us, an extremely high and holy privilege, that always teaches us complete dependence and humility towards Him, through Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit. It is teaching us absolute and complete dependence upon His written Word, as the Holy Spirit, when we are submitted to Him, is the power that makes that written Word submitted to, a life imparting source—the very life of Christ in us.

This makes prayer far more essential, and leads us to say less, which can be, and usually is fatal otherwise. Prayer keeps us covered in His Presence, and keeps others covered that I come in contact with.

Prayer, again, is God teaching us humility and dependence—that we can’t do a single thing in a right way without Him. Did you ever wonder why you have seen others on their knees when they pray? (So, some of us can’t anymore! So it truly is a heart surrendered to Him.). Because on the knees speaks the of helplessness and hopelessness of self apart from Him.

We can either have our back towards God or face Him. The very character of the self-life is to forget God, and great are the evils and miseries that result from the will of the sel-life.

To leave God out is to bring in confusion into all reasoning. (1Cor. 14:33 confusion, Gk., akatastasia=instability, disorder, commotion, tumult.). This word speaks of revolution or anarchy, and unrest becomes the experience of that one who lives in the self-life of a will that refuses the submission of a love-life that rests in a love that has completed everything about it, a love that refuses to ever let us go.

(2 Chr. 7:14; Ps. 107:20; Lk. 18:1; Mt. 7:7-11; Rom. 12:12; Ac. 12:5=6 17; Phil. 4:6=7; 1 Tim. 2:8; 1 Th. 5:17).