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Good Morning Peoples - I was just thinking of a friend - a close friend - who had answered prayer recently. I got to thinking how sometimes we are shocked He answered us - when all we should be is amazed He answered us. "In that day you will ask in My name…" (John 16:26). We too often think of the Cross of Christ as something we have to get through, yet we get through for the purpose of getting into it. The Cross represents only one thing for us - complete, entire, absolute identification with the Lord Jesus Christ - and there is nothing in which this identification is more real to us than in prayer.
"Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him" (Matthew 6:8). Then why should we ask? The point of prayer is not to get answers from God, but to have perfect and complete oneness with Him. If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.To be living sacrifices for His name sake.
"…I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you; for the Father Himself loves you…" (John 16:26-27). Have we reached such a level of intimacy with God that the only thing that can account for our prayer life is that it has become one with the prayer life of Jesus Christ? Has our Lord exchanged our life with His vital life? If so, then "in that day" we will be so closely identified with Jesus that there will be no distinction. Ahhh - How Sweet the sound of that! Yes?! It is reality when we align with God rightly so with the Holy Spirit's guise.
When prayer seems to be unanswered, beware of trying to place the blame on someone else. That is always a trap of Satan. When you seem to have no answer, there is always a reason - God uses these times to give you deep personal instruction, and it is not for anyone else but you.
"Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him" (Matthew 6:8). Then why should we ask? The point of prayer is not to get answers from God, but to have perfect and complete oneness with Him. If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.To be living sacrifices for His name sake.
"…I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you; for the Father Himself loves you…" (John 16:26-27). Have we reached such a level of intimacy with God that the only thing that can account for our prayer life is that it has become one with the prayer life of Jesus Christ? Has our Lord exchanged our life with His vital life? If so, then "in that day" we will be so closely identified with Jesus that there will be no distinction. Ahhh - How Sweet the sound of that! Yes?! It is reality when we align with God rightly so with the Holy Spirit's guise.
When prayer seems to be unanswered, beware of trying to place the blame on someone else. That is always a trap of Satan. When you seem to have no answer, there is always a reason - God uses these times to give you deep personal instruction, and it is not for anyone else but you.
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Hello becctometer ! I see you are at the color commentating again - LOL 
... I am doing well Lil' Sis or mate as people say around me...LOL. So how RR you ? I have done my routine in the morning and now I am ready for the day being graced up and all...LOL
... I am doing well Lil' Sis or mate as people say around me...LOL. So how RR you ? I have done my routine in the morning and now I am ready for the day being graced up and all...LOL
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