The following is the Introduction from my soon to be published book - Prayer Being = Prayer Life.

Introduction

I have written before about Prayer, that it is life, it is breath, God’s breath, and now I am writing with a new insight – Prayer-Being. Meaning the life you are living as God’s Child, your being – is prayer.

Let me define prayer for you as I have learned and lived it. Prayer is that dynamic, communing, that is life to those who have sought God, found God, and accepted God’s gift of new life through Jesus Christ. In this I do not exclude other searches for truth. However, I do point out the way and truth I have lived and learned, from early on until now and continuing and connects to prayer life – through Je’sus, Jeshua Hamashiya --- God with us, revealed in us and through us—alive!

Prayer is our life connection to and with God. We not only get to ask and receive, but we are loved, protected, healed, delivered and directed in, of, and by prayer – or our new being, new life.

The journey I have been on in prayer over the years has taken me on paths I would never have gone on. Like Much Afraid in Hannah Hurnard’s Hinds Feet On High Places ©, the journey has been totally unexpected, turning and going by ways I would never have chosen, let alone seen. The Lord has been my guide, and lessons have been taught every step of the way. I have felt as if I would like to stop this journey and ‘go home’ so to speak, meaning heaven with God.

That is until I began to grow and mature and know God more, not as the icon of worship I began with a long time ago, but as a personal, dynamic presence in my daily 24/7 life. The knowing part of a personal God had been since I was 4 years old.

The growing and maturing part took a great leap recently and I was brought to the point of seeing what I had been afraid of seeing; of knowing what I had been hiding from much of my adult life. Oneness with God is not new, but through fear and denial (picked up from a system that imparts this with strict designs) I had drifted away (as in escape) from knowing God as the one who loved me, accepted me and was with me always.

I had over the years come to know the Lord as a ‘sort of’ friend, but still mostly Lord-iconized and me still a Much Afraid. This role had a lot of drama, which provided me with a dynamic rush, you know, the kind of rush substituted for the pleasure of acceptance. Acceptance I primarily looked for from other people.

Even though I had even come to know Father God as ‘daddy’ the one on whose lap I could sit, who could hug me and tell me I was ok. That was with Him, in His secret place, just between Him and me, our secret. This personal dynamic source of me being ok period, well now, that was a bit too much for me in the systematic society program. It took years for me to come to the truth that I am ok, right here and now.

I have read books which read very much like I was used to speaking with God, Father, Lord/Savior, Comforter /Guide, from the time I was very young about 4 years old; perhaps not the depth of knowing, but certainly the personable-ness.

How do you run from who you are and what you know – easy. You are forced to refuse to ‘see’ the real truth by pain and fear; and choose instead to hide in the illusions of life, and its mirrors. You loose who you are so you can be accepted by others who don’t know you – accepted by a system dedicated to using you up. Do you recall the reality of who Neo © was in Matrix ©, before the blue pill?

So we, in choosing new life, wake up to who we really are. We are no longer limited to a system of self. We are alive to the reality of being. I thank God, that in the fullness of time, everything comes forth, if you so choose—and I did choose.

I did have a season where I came face to face with death (without God). I had a choice to make. I chose life – like Much Afraid, (Hinds Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard). I sat in my cave and checked out all the stones I had picked up on my journey, and decided to keep them and obey God, whether I could see the future or not. So my fullness of time came together and is continuing.

With this said, I invite you to read on, and stay with this reading, until you have gone all the way through, and chosen life.

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