Love is the Foundation of Effective PrayerIf God is made out of love, and the Bible tells us He is love, and if He is the one who gives us new birth, and He does, then we are no longer this flesh and blood vehicle in which we navigate on this earth in the physical realm. We now have a new body as well as a new spirit. Our new birth happens by God inserting us into a body, as opposed to us coming out of a body in our natural birth. The new body, in which we now live and move and have our being, is called the Body of Christ. Just as we take care of our natural body: we wash it, we feed it, we lay it down to sleep, so we must take care of our new body, the Body of Christ.
How do we do that? It seems so vague and nebulous; an ill-defined existence to say the least. Our jumping off place must be: LOVE. Each of us is a love child, born of a love Father, made of the same stuff our Father is made of, and that’s love. So the way to operate in this new body is to let love have its way. We feed our natural body because it cries out for food. The Body of Christ also cries out for its food, which, of course, is love.
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IntercessionFor many years, Christians referred to prayer as being only intercession. It’s easy to think that because intercession is often done in tongues, since we don’t know what to pray for as we ought, and any prayer can and should end in tongues. They also spoke about having a call to be an Intercessor. Unfortunately, they said that out of ignorance; they simply didn’t know their Bible. There are only two Intercessors mentioned in the Bible, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. However, all of us are called to intercede.
Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered (Romans 8:26). |
Marty
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