Real Prayer for Real Seekers!

Prayer - how much do you really know about prayer? Now I lay me down to sleep... is this what you were taught? Is this this what you say, or maybe it's the Lord's prayer of "Our Father wh art in heaven..."?

Or maybe you've learned chanting certain words or phrases over and over.
Or maybe you've learned that prayer is for the 'leaders' to do - a special gift for a special few. And with this understanding you've let 'others' take care of prayer.

Well these are all part of the truth, the beginning parts for sure. And while they are important steps they are steps, leading you to a place of reality - in God's view.

Until you learn and grow IN praylife, the complete truth of who you are and whose you are remains out of sight, ot of mind. Well, if you are ready to get real answers about real prayers - then let's rock and roll.

Firstly, prayer is not about doing something right. And while it is Holy, in that it is a part of God in us and whose we are -- as new born again children of God, it is not about being 'better than' anyone else. Nope, nor is prayer just for a chosen few.

Prayer is for all of us, who have been born again by our choice, choosing Jesus - God's Living Word Son, who was from the begining our answer. Prayer is part of who we are in or new life - Prayer is who we are and also what we do and new life believers.

Like a baby needs milk to get through the early stages of life, so we start our Prayer Life by calling out to Abba, our Heavenly Father - and through the Holy Spirit (I call Mommie, Heavenly Mother) are fed the living word (the revealed word, Jesus) as milk.

So have you been born again, as in coming to the end of your self and crying out to God for help, and receiving the gift, free, of your new spiritual life? Have you entered into that 24/7 real realationship with Abba - our creator, Holy Spirit - our comforter/guide and Jesus as your Savior, Lord, Brother?

If the answer is yes, then let's get busy with real prayer - as in Prayer Life!

Just as a baby is washed after physical birth -- so when we are spiritually born again, we are washed - this washing is what I refer to as the baptism of the Holy Spirit - I believe we are washed initially by the Spirit - and then we get to ask for the Holy Spirt to come and anoint us, and lead and guide us into all the truth.

And this is where Prayer Life, (real prayer) begins. We begin as we ask - for the milk of the Word. Interesting isn't it -- especially for us grown folk - we need to go back to the 'baby-hood' and cry out for milk all day long -- you know, like every 4 hours! :-))

I call this the beginning lesson of who we are and whose we are. We need to know that when we ask we receive of God, first milk, then bread and then meat -- as in growing - learning and maturing.

Jesus gives us the basics of asking in Luke 11:9:

So I say to you,
Ask and it wil be given to you;
Seek and you will find;
Knock and it will be opened to you

Ask
Seek
Knock

Confirmation of a simple truth is provided for us -- if we are bein LED by the Holy Spirit -- if not then the words are not alive or anointed and do not reveal the truth for each one of us. We are not all duplicates of one another - so the truth revealed is not going to be the same. God knows each and every one of us in the uniqueness we have been created in -- in God's image - yet individually unique!

Prayer for real is how we live and move and have our being in Christ the anointing!

So go get your notebook or tape recorder and write/speak what you have received from this blog - more to come in part 2!