Romans 8:26
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words.
Most simply put, prayer is something that happens to you.
Prayer is connecting with God/Ultimate Reality. It is not an attempt to change God’s mind about us or about events. Such arrogance is what unbelievers make fun of—and often rightly so.
Prayer is primarily about changing our own mind so that things like infinity, mystery, and forgiveness can resound within us.
The small mind cannot see great things because the two are on different frequencies or channels. We must match our resonance to Love’s. Like knows like.
Without contemplation, the best you can do is to know by comparison, calculation, and from the limited viewpoint of “you.” Prayer knows reality in a totally different way. Instead of presenting a guarded self to the moment, prayer stops defending or promoting its ideas and feelings, and waits for, expects, and receives guidance from Another. It offers itself naked to the now, so that our inner and aroused lover can meet the Lover. Such prayer takes major surgery of heart, mind, and inner sight.
Prayer is about changing you, not about changing God.
much more than anything you privately do, It is an allowing of the Big Self more than an assertion of the small self. Eventually you will find yourself preferring to say, “Prayer happened, and I was there” more than “I prayed today.” All you know is that you are being led, guided, loved, used, and prayed through. You are no longer in the driver’s seat.
Following this guidance you will know what is yours to do.
God stops being an object of attention like any other object in the world, and becomes at some level your own “I Am.” You start knowing through, with, and in Somebody Else. And then your little “I Am” becomes “We Are.” Afterward you know instinctively that your life is not about you, but you are about Life.“I live now not I, but Another Life lives in me,” to paraphrase Paul’s poetic words (Galatians 2:20).
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Gal 2:20 "For me to live is Christ & to dies is gain" (Philippians 1:21)
The translators add the "is" but the syntax greek is different than in english. In the original language life & Christ are a compound idea.
Life = Christ.
For me to live Christ and to die is gain
I want to live the mystery of Christ that Paul talks so much about.
This Christ life is the one who allows me to let go of the earthly, let go of dreams, and enjoy the fullness of a Christ life, because this christ life is an internal reality that produces external evidence.
I long to learn how to master the practice of living this mystery.
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