Prayer Of Fellowship
By Tom Smith Have you ever felt that your service to God was ineffective? Without direction? I know I have.
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What’s worse, we may sadly find out one day that all our work for God was presumptuous and displeasing to Him because He was not its Source or Initiator. In order to avoid this, we’ll consider in this post how to enter into a more effective Christian service by learning to pray inquiring prayers that honor Him. What do we mean by inquiring prayers? As a preface, it is important to realize that the prayer to fellowship with God is the foundation of prayer. I covered this first aspect of prayer in my previous post,. Based on our prayer for fellowship, we can progress to the second aspect of prayer—the prayer for inquiring.
Inquiring prayers are prayers in which we open to God and allow Him to initiate His burden in us. We need to learn this type of prayer for both the Lord’s work, as well as for our personal needs. Initiated by God By first praying to fellowship with the Lord, we enter into God. Then, while we’re in fellowship with Him, the prayers that we pray will be something initiated by Him. He will give us His burden to pray and reveal His intention to us. Consider the example of the five who were ministering to the Lord in.
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It was while they were praying that the Holy Spirit gave them the burden for the spread of the gospel through the sending of Barnabas and Saul. More inquiring than petitioning In this aspect of prayer there is more inquiring than petitioning. Petitioning is to tell God what we want Him to do for us. However, inquiring is to ask the Lord what is on His heart—what He wants us to pray for. Inquiring prayers are very good prayers because they honor God.
It is by such prayers that God’s desire is made known to us. It is as we are calmly inquiring of the Lord, step by step, point by point, that we can sense God’s leading and then work according to His leading. For example, we may ask the Lord if He wants us to pray today for the spread of the gospel.
If we sense His leading for the gospel, we may inquire further if it His desire that we pray for the salvation of our family members or our coworkers. While inquiring, we may feel deeply burdened for a family member that is far from the Lord. Our heart may be touched even to tears. Sensing the Lord’s burden for this one’s salvation, we may further ask Him how He would have us to pray for him or her. We may specifically ask the Lord if this is the right time for us to visit this one.
Feeling peaceful about visiting, we may go on to inquire of the Lord concerning what He would have us to say. We may feel that the Lord simply wants us to go and take time to listen to what interests them. Being thorough From the example above, we can see that our inquiring should be thorough and detailed.
On our own we might just tell the Lord to save that person. But that is not thorough enough. We need to inquire of the Lord for each detail. We may ask the Lord if it would be better to meet this person at their home or at a coffee shop, by ourselves or with a companion. Don’t think that this is too trivial.
Fulfilling the Principles of Prayer We need to realize that many of our prayers in the past were not answered because we did not pray according to the principles of prayer. Just telling the Lord to do something does not follow the principles of prayer. We should first use our spirit to contact God and allow Him to anoint His burden into us and give us His feeling. Then we can inquire according to this feeling for every item of our work–in this case, our visiting of people.
Needing time to pray for the work From this illustration, it is clear that we need to spend more time to pray. The effectiveness of our work really depends on how much time we’re willing to spend before God. We should not be anxious or overwhelmed, but realize that this lesson requires our whole life to learn. As those who love the Lord Jesus and want to give Him the first place in our Christian life and work, we can’t afford to neglect these crucial lessons in prayer. May we honor the Lord by first learning the prayer of fellowship and then going on to the prayer for inquiring.
Needing companions for the work of prayer As a final note–praying for the Lord’s work is not just the work of some individuals. We really need spiritual companions for this kind of detailed prayer–like the two or three praying in harmony in.
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Otherwise, our “praying hands” will become weary like those of Moses in. We need companions like “Aaron and Hur” to preserve us in this kind of prayer for God’s work for the long run.
Lord, recover the finer work of prayer among Your people. Teach us how to have fellowship with You in prayer so that we may enter deeply into Your heart. Then lead us further to inquire of You so that we may take You as the Source and Initiator of all our Christian living and work. Grant us proper companions that will share in this work of prayer to carry out Your will in this age. If you’ve had some experience in learning to pray the prayer of fellowship and the prayer for inquiring, please share your confirming experiences so that we can mutually learn and be encouraged. These points were mainly drawn from, by, pp.
Thank you for the encouraging comment. I also feel that such a life of prayer is far beyond my day to day experience, but knowing that there is a Man of prayer inside of my spirit gives me hope that such a life can actually be lived. He did everything in oneness with the Father. Now He calls us to do the same–to live because of Him.
May so many younger brothers and sisters aspire to such a finer ministry of prayer to really live in this divine and mystical realm. Thanks for the post consideration regarding prayer for spiritual warfare. I’ll definitely bring this before the Lord. Thank you for your reply and the questions in your email. The following are your questions followed by brief answers. With your permission, I’m posting them on the blog for others to read as well In Christ, Tom Q # 1 – First, where is man’s spirit supposed to dwell?
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A – The spirit of man is hidden within man’s soul, like marrow is concealed with bones or joints Q # 2 – Is it possible for a persons spirit to be born again and the soul is not? A – Man’s spirit is born again at the time He believes into Jesus Christ.
John 3:6 says that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. It is our human spirit that is born of the Holy Spirit. Our soul is still natural and needs to be renewed by the spreading of the Spirit from our spirit into our soul. We call this process transformation. Romans 12:2 says “be transformed by the renewing of the mind.” No, the spirit remains within a person until their death, When the spirit departs the person dies. Q # 3 – What is the role of the spirit in the place of prayer? A – The spirit of man is the organ for prayer.
Since the Lord is the Spirit with our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22), it is from our spirit that He moves us to pray. In Ephesians 6:18, Paul charged us to “pray at every time in spirit.” So we need to exercise to pray from our deepest part, not just from what our mind remembers. Q # 4 – What is the role of his soul in the place of prayer? A – What ever the Lord as the Spirit anoints us with as a burden for prayer needs to be interpreted and carried out by the faculties of the soul. Our mind must understand the moving of the Spirit.
Our emotion must be open to share the Lord’s feeling and our will must choose to utter in prayer the burden of the Spirit in our spirit. For more on these points, I would encourage you to read Lessons on Prayer by Witness Lee.
Chapter 5 is on the Spirit of Prayer and Chapters 6-8 are on the Mind, Emotion and Will related to Prayer.(To read further, click “Read from the full text of this book” at the bottom of the page.). Dear Pastor Tom: I was simply crying out to God for a deeper, more directed, walk, and a significan way to serve. My entire self longs for a deeper sense of His life in me and my fruitfulness in Him. Childish gambino because the internet vinyl screenplay. I have recently gotten a job that keeps me alone for hours doing almost nothing and I have truly wondered what this is all about. The posts I have read today are both informative and review of what I already know, but feeling it isn’t yet bearing fruit in my life.
My desire is that I will know Christ in such a way that His voice and His will are crystal clear to me. I feel I was lead to this site and I look forward to using these techniques to draw closer to the Master that I may truly know Him in the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings. Please pray for me in this, Thank you for all of the wisdom you have shared. Oteikwu, Thanks for sharing your interest in the matter of praying inquiring prayers.
First, we need to realize that we have the most wonderful Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, dwelling in our spirit to be our life. As the indwelling Spirit of life, living within us, He is full of feeling and interceding for us. He is waiting for us to inquire of Him. To pray the inquiring prayers He desires, we need to calm our inner being, put aside our prayer “agenda” and simply open to Him and be mingled with Him. In this prayer of fellowship we can begin to inquire as to what is on the Lord’s heart.
We should endeavor to follow the anointing of His Spirit and pray out His desire through our prayer. This kind of prayer will bring us much more mingling with God and provide prayers that God delights to answerbecause they originate with Him. You can read more on this topic in chapter 5 of How to Enjoy God and How to Practice the Enjoyment of God by Witness Lee. You can find it in the alphabetical listing of titles on. Also this hymn, with by the same author conveys this sentiment as well.