'Prayer is Spiritual Pavement'
Author C.L. Mareydt
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One of the most common words within the Christian language to this date
is the word 'prayer'. It rolls off our tongues as smooth as honey. We have
nonchalantly methodized anything pertaining to prayer to the point of
extinction. Jamming prayer into colorful seminar quotes that provide us a
liturgy of prayerful patterns and formulas to follow. We banter about the
effects of prayer and how God answers prayer, till it becomes a Faith Flag
we wave in honor of our own righteousness. How many prayers have we listened
to, yawning deep inside, with a disturbing lack of concentration or
understanding? How many prayers habitually uttered to cover our religious
minds in platitudes of soulish superficial cleansings? We are religiously
and ceremonially unclean altogether!
We have inadvertently become like the people in the days of the Prophet
Isaiah as he declared after receiving a vision of God...'Woe is me! For I am
undone and ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the
midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord
of Hosts!'...Isaiah 6.
Every serious Believer must come to this personal transcendental point
within there own life, where prayer cannot help. From this position of
dyeing to self, we can come into the position of communion in prayer with
our Lord! From the position of 'thy will be done', can our will be undone.
As the Prophet Isaiah experienced after seeing the death of his beloved King
Uzziah. Isaiah then could receive the vision of God and bow his life to the
true King. God Almighty! He was not only cleansed and forgiven, but offered
himself to be sent forth as God's Prophet once again. Isaiah was mightily
used and empowered through his prayers for God's people and his visions
which he openly declared. His prayers, now in communion with God, became the
spiritual pavement that he walked upon and provided for many generations
henceforth.
No, we are not the Prophet Isaiah, however, we are Believers! We believe,
therefore we must have communion with God, thru our Lord Jesus Christ. He
has become our Emmanuel! God with US! We must commune in prayer or we do not
really experience the Life that is available with Jesus. Our communion in
prayer becomes our spiritual pavement to walk upon. Our talk becomes our
walk. For we will walk exactly what we talk and visa versa.
Each and every time a prayer is thought or spoken it puts the spiritual
pavement under our feet to walk in the Spirit with Jesus and with other
Believer. We become partakers of the Light as it is dispersed to us in such
glorious moments of prayerful communion. We can walk in the Light as Jesus
is in the Light. That's spiritual pavement and solid ground.
Like the Prophet Isaiah, our eyes will be opened to the grand scale of God
in our lives! That alone is exciting enough, but our Lord so wonderfully
expands even this scope, for we then become equipped in purpose in the
Kingdom of God. Thru the powerful working of His Holy Spirit we will truly
experience our higher purpose in Being one in Christ. Our prayers will be
alive in anointing and powerful in preparing the spiritual pavement we need
to complete our coarse. We will declare the words of our Lord in the
freshness and creativeness that we receive them in. We will be able to
supply others and furnish solid spiritual pavement for them to walk on also.
What a challenge and what a delight. What an awesome responsibility! We are
more than conquerors thru Jesus Christ! Our prayers turn from the Lord
serving us and to us serving our Lord! This is what we are created for. This
is part of the race our feet are running. This is our coarse and our goal!
Spiritual pavement through our prayers! Now that's powerful. What kind of
pavement have you been walking on lately? Are you satisfied with your
spiritual walk? Is it the solid ground that you desire? As Believers we do
have a choice. That is part of our responsibility between us and God. We can
walk as the Prophet Isaiah walked. Full of purpose, full of anointing, and
full of Holy Spirit power! It has been provided for each one of us! tgy
©2004 C.L. Mareydt d23