Learn the Secret of Prayer to Allow God to Express Himself from Within us in Prayer

Real prayer is the Christ indwelling us praying to the Christ on the throne, for we are mingled with God and one with God to the extent that He as the Spirit joins in our weakness and prays in our prayer, and He knows what God’s mind is and what to pray for. Amen!

We need an upgrade in our prayer life and an update in our way of praying, for prayer is not merely our bringing our supplications before God but much more than that.

To pray is to open to God and contact God and let God contact you, and it is to absorb God to the extent that what you pray is actually God praying in you.

As praying persons, we are learning to cooperate with God and work together with God in prayer, and we allow God to express Himself and His desire through us in our prayer.

The goal of prayer is not merely that we accomplish something and a particular thing gets done; it is to absorb God and be mingled with God.

Prayer is in the mutual contact of God and man; when we contact God and God contacts us, that is prayer, and in this mutual contact, we are infused with God and He expresses Himself through us.

May we learn to open to the Lord, make a contact with God, receive God, and absorb God, that is, absorb God’s element, so that His heart, His feeling, His mind, and His desire would be infused into us.

When we are filled and saturated with what God is, when His mind becomes our mind and our desire is a reflection of His desire, our prayer will express Him and will be efficient, for He will carry out what He desires to do.

There’s no higher labor that a Christian or a church can do on earth than to work together with God and cooperate with God by means of prayer.

When we pray in the mingling of God and man, we actually allow God to express Himself on earth.

When we pray in the mutual contact of God and man, what we pray for is not primarily our need but God’s need, and He has a way to meet His need and further His move with our cooperation in prayer.

Real prayer is not us expressing something of what we need or desire; real prayer is touching God, receiving something of God into us, and then uttering something of what He has put into us in prayer.

Real prayer is the expression of God’s desire through our prayer, for real prayer is according to God, for God’s need, and in God’s dispensing. May we learn to pray real prayers and not merely pray for our needs.

May we realize that we are made for God, and when He mingles Himself with us, we are satisfied. May we pray in the mingling of God and man and allow God to express Himself through us in our prayer!

Spending More Time in Prayer to be Filled with God, Surrender to God, Gain God, and Pray one with God

The more we pray, the more we will be filled with God and the more we will surrender to God and be gained by Him.

One of the results of praying real prayers is that we are filled with God.

When we only pray for our needs, we may feel good inside, but we may not gain more of God; when we are mingled with God and are filled with God through our prayer, we are satisfied and God is satisfied.

When we pray in this way, by contacting God and allowing Him to pray in us, we find ourselves becoming more obedient to Him, for we surrender ourselves to Him.

We become more possessed by Him and gained by Him.

We all have experienced this to a certain extent.

However, for us to experience being filled with God in prayer, for us to gain God and pray one with God to such an extent that we simply surrender to God, we need to spend more time in prayer.

We cannot simply spend two or three minutes with the Lord in prayer and we’re filled with God; rather, we need to take more time to spend with God in prayer.

The more we pray in spirit, in the traffic between God and man, the more we are mingled with God, and the more we want to pray.

May we learn to spend more time in prayer, even to pray more minutes during the day, so that we can absorb God and fully discharge something of God before Him in our times of prayer with Him.

The Bible tells us that we should pray unceasingly; this means that we need to spend more time in prayer with the Lord, and in this prayer, we gain God and are gained by Him.

We can say that real prayer is like breathing – we have to breathe all the time, and on one hand, we exhale and on the other, we inhale.

On one hand, we exhale ourselves and on the other hand, we breathe in God.

As we breathe in God through prayer, we obtain God, we gain God, and we are filled with God.

The more we pray, the more we will be filled with God and the more we surrender ourselves to God to be gained by God.

But if we don’t pray for a week or even worse, for a month, we will end up being quite far away from God, which means that we can’t obtain God nor can we be gained by Him.

May we be those who set times of prayer with the Lord throughout the day to breathe in God, open to God, and gain God, so that we may be filled with God and express what He has put in us back in prayer to Him.

As we pray, we realize that we are nothing and that we can do nothing (Mark 9:28-29); we open to God and we ask Him to do in us what He wants to do.

In Mark 9 the Lord told the disciples that a particular kind of demon cannot come out except by means of prayer.

Prayer means that we are nothing and can do nothing, so we need God, we come to God, and we exercise our spirit to be one with God and be filled with God.

We have an utter sense of lack of helplessness, and of neediness, for we can’t make it, we can’t face it, and we can’t do it, so we come to the Lord in prayer.

We kneel down, we open to the Lord, and we confess our need for Him, trusting in Him and looking to Him.

When we have such an attitude, He infuses Himself into us to meet our needs inwardly, and He expresses Himself through our prayer in our oneness with Him.

The governing principle of our prayer should be that prayer brings us into God; the issue of proper prayer is that we find ourselves in God (Luke 11:1-13).

We need God, we open to God, we come before Him in prayer, and we are brought into God; through prayer, we are filled with God, and we find ourselves in God.

This takes time; we need to spend more time praying ourselves into God. Being in God and living one with God takes time and is a process; we need to pray ourselves into Him, exercise to be one with Him and allow Him to fill us with what He is.

May we be brought out of ourselves and into God to be fully one with God, be filled with God, and have Him as our everything in our daily living day by day.

Lord Jesus, we need You! We cannot do this in ourselves; we can’t live the Christian life and we can’t work for You in and by ourselves. We open to You, dear Lord, and we desperately need You. Come in and fill us with Yourself. We simply surrender ourselves to You to be gained by You and to gain You. We realize that we are nothing and we can do nothing. Keep us before You, emptying ourselves before You and allowing You to fill us day by day. May our prayer bring us into God. May we be brought out of ourselves and into God to be filled with God and be fully one with God. Amen, Lord, we look to You and we trust in You; we want to learn to pray ourselves into God! Increase the mingling between God and us. Fill us more with Yourself. Make us fully one with You!

Learning the Secret of Prayer to Cooperate with God and Allow God to Express Himself from Within us in Prayer

We need to learn the secret of prayer so that we would cooperate with God, work together with God, and allow God to express Himself through us in our prayer.

A person who really learned the secret of prayer spontaneously works together with God and allows God to express His desire and heart from within him and through him, ultimately accomplishing God’s purpose.

We all have to admit that we don’t know what we should pray as is fitting, but the Holy Spirit intercedes for us according to God’s purpose (Rom. 8:26-27).

We don’t really know how to pray and what to pray for; we may know to ask things from God and praise Him, but we don’t know much concerning the prayer as revealed in the Scriptures.

We need to learn to pray the kind of prayers that touch God’s desire and are up to His standard.

Real prayers are not just man praying to God and God listening in the heavens; real prayers involve God and man, man and God.

It is not merely man praying to God but the Spirit is mingling Himself with man, puts on man, and joins with man in prayer.

Hallelujah, though we do not know what to pray as is fitting, the Spirit joins in our weakness, and He knows what is in God’s heart, so He prays in us and through us according to God.

Outwardly, we are the ones praying, but inwardly it is the Spirit who is praying; two parties express the same prayer at the same time.

This is what we see in James 5:17, where it says that Elijah earnestly prayed; in Greek, this means, prayed with prayer, or prayed in prayer.

Elijah didn’t pray desperately that God would send the rain; he was given a prayer and he prayed in that prayer and with that prayer that was given to him.

We can say that Elijah’s prayer was God praying His prayer to Himself in Elijah. Andrew Murray once said that real prayer is the Christ who indwells us praying to the Christ who is sitting on the throne.

It may sound strange that Christ prays to Christ Himself, but this is the case in our experience.

We do not know what to pray for as is fitting, and we don’t even know how to pray; however, the Spirit groans in us, prays in us, and prays with us and through us, for the Holy Spirit prays in us according to God.

In this way, we are mingled with God, God is mingled with us, and we work together with God by uttering the prayers that He puts in us.

When we pray, we touch God, we are mingled with God, and He prays in our prayer.

When we pray, it is He who is praying, and when He prays, we also are praying. He prays within us, and we express His prayer outwardly, for He and we are altogether one and we pray at the same time.

As we remain in this mingling of God and man, we and God cannot be separated; we are one, we speak as one, we work together as one, and He expresses His desire through us in our prayer.

In this way, our prayer becomes His prayer, and His desire is expressed through our prayer; therefore, He can accomplish His purpose through us.

This is the kind of prayer that He needs, and this is the kind of person that He desires to gain.

May we learn to pray real prayers before God so that we may work together with God and cooperate with Him, allowing God to express Himself through us and accomplish His purpose.

Real prayer always touches God’s purpose; it always is for the fulfilment of God’s need and His purpose.

The standard prayer is the prayer that allows God to express Himself through us.

Lord Jesus, thank You for being the Spirit in our spirit who joins us in our weakness, for we do not know what to pray and how to pray. Amen, Lord, we open to You. Mingle Yourself more with us today. Mingle Your intention with our intention and infuse the desire of Your heart into our hearts. May we be those who pray in a prayer, praying the prayer that You are praying today. Make us so one with You, dear Lord, that our prayer expresses Your prayer and accomplishes Your purpose. May it be You who prays in our prayer, and may we express Your prayer. Oh Lord, we yearn to be fully one with You to the extent that You express Yourself through us and we cooperate with You for the fulfilment of Your purpose. Amen, Lord, grant us to pray real prayers before God, prayers that meet His need and accomplish His purpose!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1959, vol. 4, “Lessons on Prayer,” ch. 2, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, God’s Economy in Faith (2022 spring ITERO), week 3, entitled, Praying with God as our Faith.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Praying to express the Lord, / We must not ourselves express, / But let Christ reveal Himself, / His desire in us impress. / Praying to express the Lord, / We must utter His intent, / Quieting our human thoughts / That with His our mind be blent. (Hymns #785)
  – Pray to labor with the Lord, / Pray to pave the way for Him; / Pray to move Him and be moved / From the center to the rim. / Pray to labor with the Lord, / Be identified with Him / In His purpose and His aim / Till His blessing floodeth in. (Hymns #786)
  – Praying always in the spirit, / Thus expressing God’s desire; / Staying with the Lord in spirit, / We’ll be wholly set afire. / Praying always in the spirit, / Even groaning from within, / Thus we utter God’s intention / By the Spirit’s discipline. (Hymns #780)