Magnificent Prayer #257
Magnificent Prayer #257
If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.
Philippians 2:1–2
It is when we realize our oneness with Christ in death, and in resurrection, that prayer becomes the marvelous force that we find it was in the life of the Savior; the invincible dynamic that it reveals itself to be in the book of Acts; and the ineffable experience of the great saints of the ages.
F. J. HUEGEL
Pray About It: We don’t pray alone. We are one with Christ and it’s through Him and by Him that we pray. Watchman Nee once declared that the secret of victory was never to see oneself outside of Christ. This is particularly true as we pray. We are empowered by the One who lives in us. We are one with Christ, bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh.
In prayer today, see yourself united with Christ and then pray from that place of security.
Wilt thou say, “Yes!” to all His longing for union with thee, and with a glad and eager abandonment, hand thyself and all that concerns thee over into His hands? If though wilt, then shall thy soul begin to know something of the joy of union with Christ.
HANNAH WHITALL SMITH
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