ENGAGED... IN PRAYER - from an brief act to an eternal attraction

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Prayer Part one
This morning I had the opportunity to lead my first 20 minute session of prayer at Potter's House of Prayer (PHOP). As I was preparing for this, many things went through my mind, in fact in the middle of the night just a few hours before stepping to the mic, God was challenging me to take a fresh look at prophetic intercession and worship.


The night before in the PHOP 10 WK Intensive, during the class on prayer, Max Thomas shared that, "Prayer in essence is 
the connection between two hearts."
I thought that was profound.
If we forget that... we can:
  • act as though prayer is a transaction
  • focus on the words
  • discount our relationship status with Holy Spirit 
  • make prayer a one-way monologue
  • miss hearing his voice speaking to us 
  • focus on our needs 
  • miss hearing His desires

As God has been challenging the traditional approach to prayer over the last several months, I have come to see that we are very comfortable with asking for things like: 

  • Answers our questions 
  • Provision for our needs 
  • healing for our wounds 
  • deliverance from bondage  
  • relief from our fears 
If we focus on the connection of our hearts to God we will find that. As we draw nigh to God He will draw nigh to us, we might begin to feel like he is near and not so far away. 
  • adoration will flow from our lips
  • worship will bubble up from our hearts
  • declarations of our love will be spoken
  • declarations of who God is will be shouted
  • proclamations of his good intentions will be established
  • revelation of who he is 
  • we will listen as well as speak. 
  • we will receive wisdom, guidance, counsel
  • we will experience the love of God.   

Prayer should be the joining of two hearts, a communion between friends, a secluded meeting of lovers. It should look like Adam and God walking together through the garden in the cool of the day. It should look the stranger met on road to Emmaus.

This was God's highest standard for fellowship and communication before the fall of man. In Christ the final Adam God has restored that level of communication between Himself and each one of us.

If we grasp this it will totally revolutionize our pray life as individuals and in corporate prayer as well.



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