FELLOWSHIP OF PRAYER:

"The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen"
(II Corinthians 13:14)

Anyone who wants to have a good standard for praying ought to emulate Jesus Christ. Studying His prayer Life, I observed what He did that the religious people of His time didn't do, for which reason He had such outstanding results in prayer: He separated the labor of prayer from the fellowship of prayer. There is such a thing as "prayer labor" or "prayer work"; you can literally count the number of times Jesus prayed this way. However, His prayer fellowship is what we really need to emulate, that is the only different about His prayer life.

His prayer labor wasn't different from that of the great prophets who came before Him. Moses, Joshua, Elijah, Elisha, David etc., all prayed and their prayers are all chronicled for us in Scripture. But there was something that they didn't have, which the Lord Jesus Christ brought in: living in the Father's presence in continual fellowship. This was different, it was new, because Christ lived in His Father's presence in consistent fellowship.

The early prophets didn't have this, because they couldn't, assume they could, they would have because of their love for God. Nevertheless, the reason they could not was that they didn't have the agreement of the Holy Spirit. No one can walk in such extraordinary fellowship with the Father except by the Holy Spirit. It is His ministry and delight to bring us into that place of constant and continual fellowship with the Father.

That was why Apostle Paul, by the Spirit prayed thus in our opening verse. That wasn't given to us just to recite as closing benediction during our church services and meetings. It was a revelation. The father is in heaven, the Lord Jesus is in heaven, but the Holy Spirit is here with us on earth. He is in us and with us, in Him we have the presence of Christ and the Father. He does not come and go, we have been qualified to be in His dwelling place, he lives in us and has become part of our daily existence. he talks to us all the time, as we listen to Him we are guided, instructed, led in the path of excellence, glory, dominion and power. Amen

For Further Study:
1 Corinthians 1:9
1 John 1:3

Andy Agim
Christ Realities