Prayer Being

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 your 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 four 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 as a Lord/icon 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.