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August 6, 2008
THE CROSS IN PRAYER
At that day ye shall ask in My name.
John 16:26
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=joh+16:26&sr=1
We are too much given to thinking of the Cross as something we have
to get through; we get through it only in order to get into it. The
Cross stands for one thing only for us - a complete and entire and
absolute identification with the Lord Jesus Christ, and there is
nothing in which this identification is realized more than in prayer.
"Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him."
Then why ask? The idea of prayer is not in order to get answers from
God; prayer is perfect and complete oneness with God. If we pray
because we want answers, we will get huffed with God. The answers
come every time, but not always in the way we expect, and our
spiritual huff shows a refusal to identify ourselves with Our Lord in
prayer. We are not here to prove God answers prayer; we are here to
be living monuments of God's grace.
"I say not that I will pray the Father for you: for the Father
Himself loveth you." Have you reached such an intimacy with God that
the Lord Jesus Christ's life of prayer is the only explanation of
your life of prayer? Has Our Lord's vicarious life become your vital
life? "At that day" you will be so identified with Jesus that there
will be no distinction.
When prayer seems to be unanswered, beware of trying to fix the blame
on someone else. That is always a snare of Satan. You will find there
is a reason which is a deep instruction to you, not to anyone else.
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