Pray Ourselves into God to Receive His Riches and Dispense Life Supply into Others

When we pray ourselves into God, we receive His riches into our being for our supply, and we can also dispense these riches into others; to pray is actually to declare that it is no longer I but Christ, for prayer is the real denial of the self and trusting in God in all things.

Lord Jesus, we want to learn to pray ourselves into God! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit to touch You and receive You as our life and life supply. Father, we need more of the Spirit! Supply us bountifully with the Spirit today so that we may partake of all the riches of Christ in spirit! Amen!

We believers in Christ are learning to pray; we know how to pray, we practice praying, we are building up a habit of prayer, and we are continually learning to pray.

The Lord Jesus told us that we need to “pray in this way,” which doesn’t mean that we should repeat the prayers He uttered, but keep that principle of prayer.

However, even if we take the Lord’s prayer and make it our prayer, we are inwardly supplied. In our daily life, as we do this and that, we can simply tell the Lord, Father, Your name be sanctified! Lord Jesus, Your kingdom come! Amen, Lord, Your will be done!

As we pray in this way, even repeating this prayer to touch the Lord from deep within, we pray ourselves into God.

We need to take the Lord’s prayer and make it our prayer not in a repetitive or routine way; rather, we need to exercise our spirit to touch the Lord.

The word of God in the Bible is living and operative, and when we exercise our spirit, new light and new supply comes to us from God’s word.

It is the same word, but it dawns with new light and dispenses the fresh supply of life into us.

We all can testify, for example, that we may have lunch together with the family or just by ourselves, and we tell the Lord, Oh Lord, give us our daily bread and forgive us, for we also forgive our debtors.

As we say this from deep within, even exercising to touch the Lord in spirit and turn our heart to Him, we touch something of God, and we pray ourselves into God.

Prayer is the way for us to get out of ourselves and enter into God; through prayer we partake of the riches of Christ, our self is denied, and we are inwardly supplied to live a life for the fulfilment of God’s purpose on the earth.

In this article, we want to see how, when we pray ourselves into God, we receive His riches for our supply and for us to supply others also, and how we deny ourselves through prayer, allowing Christ to live in us.

When we Pray Ourselves into God, we Receive His Riches into our Being for our Supply and for us to Supply Others

In Luke 11 the Lord Jesus taught His disciples to pray, and he continued by saying, But what father among you whose son shall ask for a fish will instead of a fish hand him a snake? Or if he shall also ask for an egg, will hand him a scorpion?

If you, then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father who from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him (Luke 11:11-13)!

This shows us that, when we learn from the Lord to pray, even pray ourselves into God, we receive His riches into our being for our supply.

The Lord was precise and not accidental in mentioning the life supply that we would request from Him.

Loaves represent the riches of the land, and fish represent the riches of the sea. Eggs represent the riches of something both in the air and on the earth.

The totality of all these riches, the reality of all these riches, as the Lord Jesus said in Luke 11, is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will give to us if we ask Him. Amen!

When we pray ourselves into God, we can ask Him for the Spirit as the reality of all the riches of Christ, and He will give us the Spirit.

We need to learn to pray ourselves into God; when we touch Him as our Father, when we pray for what is on His heart, ask for His supply, and praise and extol Him, we are richly supplied, and we receive His riches into our being.

When we have prayed ourselves into God and remain in Him, we receive the Holy Spirit as our life supply (signified by the loaves, the fish, and the egg) so that we can feed ourselves and all those under our care (1 John 5:16a; 2 Cor. 3:6; Acts 6:4). Amen!

Just as we as parents do not give evil things to our children when they ask us for food but rather, we feed them, cherish them, nourish them, and give them the best we have, so our heavenly Father will not give us evil or bad things when we ask Him for the life-supply.

Rather, the Father will bountifully supply us with the Spirit, giving us the best He has, the best that He knows that we need, that is, the bountiful supply of the Spirit for our rich enjoyment.

A snake signifies Satan and his angels, and a scorpion signifies Satan’s demons. When we ask the Lord for food, He will give us the Spirit in a bountiful way, even to the overflowing; He will never give us evil things from Satan.

Our life supply is the Spirit; when we pray ourselves into God, we should remain in Him to receive the Holy Spirit as our life supply.

Wow, how about this, when we pray ourselves into God, we remain in Him continually, and we receive the Holy Spirit as our life supply!

This is why it is important that, when we pray and sense that we are not brought into God by our prayer, we stop our prayer and not pray in that way anymore.

Our prayer should bring us into God. The governing principle of our prayer should be that prayer always brings us into God.

We pray many kinds of prayers, but we need to keep the principle of being brought into God by our prayer.

When we pray ourselves into God and receive His rich supply, which is the bountiful supply of the all-inclusive Spirit (Phil. 1:19) as the reality of the unsearchable riches of Christ (Eph. 3:8), we are filled and occupied with this supply, and there’s no room in us for demons, evil spirits, or darkness. Amen!

Because we are filled with the riches of the divine supply, we become persons whose hearts are full of light, not having any dark part, and we can illumine others (Luke 11:33-36; Matt. 5:8).

This is why we need to keep coming to the Lord by praying ourselves into God; when we do this, we are emptied of ourselves and are filled with God to the extent that there’s no more room for anything evil, and the Lord fills us!

He fills us to such an extent that we overflow to others, and we have a few under our care that partake of the riches of Christ through us, for we flow these riches to them.

If our way of prayer, however, distracts us from the Lord and doesn’t bring us into Him, we should change our way of prayer.

We cannot pray in the same way, in a routine way, but pray to be brought into God. We can testify that, so many times, we have truly touched the Lord and were brought into God by praying ourselves into God.

We need to seek to be brought into God by our prayer so that we may enjoy the riches of Christ in the Spirit, and we will have a rich supply to flow out to others also.

If we feel that we can’t get through, we need to be insistent and persistent in our prayer.

In Luke 11:5-10 the Lord gives us many examples of someone who is in desperate need of life supply, and he insists, he persists, and he continues to ask until he receives what he needs.

May we shamelessly persist in our prayer until we pray ourselves into God and are filled with the Spirit as the rich supply so that we may have sustenance for ourselves and a bountiful supply for those under our care!

Lord Jesus, we want to pray ourselves into God to receive His riches into our being for our supply! Amen, Father, give us the Spirit as our life and life supply! We need spiritual food, Lord, and we come to You to be supplied. Hallelujah, the Holy Spirit is the reality of the life supply for us to be filled with nourishment and also to have something to feed those under our care! Oh Lord, we exercise our spirit. We come to You. We want to pray ourselves into You. Save us from praying prayers that distract us from God. Save us from praying in a routine way, even in a mechanical or habitual way. Oh Lord, we want to touch You afresh! We want to pray ourselves into God and remain in God to receive His rich supply! Oh, how good it is to enjoy the bountiful supply of the all-inclusive Spirit! Amen, Lord, fill us to overflowing until we’re so filled and occupied with this supply that there’s no room in us for any demons, evil spirits, or darkness! Fill us until we are persons whose heart is full of light, not having any dark part, and we can also illuminate others!

To Pray is to Realise we are Nothing and Can Do Nothing: No longer I but Christ!

To pray means that we realise that we are nothing and that we can do nothing; we depend on the Lord, and we depend on prayer, for through prayer we deny ourselves and take Christ as our everything.

We believers in Christ are not becoming stronger in ourselves as we go on with the Lord, nor are we becoming spiritual giants or giant warriors of faith; rather, the more we grow in life, the more we depend on the Lord through prayer.

Prayer is the real denial of the self (Mark 8:34; 9:29; Col. 4:2; Gal. 2:20; Phil. 3:3; 4:6-7, 11-13).

The Lord Jesus told us that, if we want to follow after Him, we need to deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow Him. How do we do this? It is by prayer.

If we still try and struggle to follow the Lord, if we still strive to be pleasing to Him, and if we still do our best to fulfil what He tells us to do, yet we do not pray, we need to stop and just pray.

We need to pray. Even the evil things in us, some sins that so easily entangle us, and some bad habits that we may have, these can be removed not by trying harder but by prayer (Mark 9:29).

Through prayer we deny ourselves. We declare that it is no longer I but Christ. We need to persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving.

When we pray, we don’t tell the Lord what to do and we don’t bring to Him our list of needs and desires.

Through prayer, according to the governing principle of prayer, we pray ourselves into God. We seek Him first, we sanctify His name, bring in His kingdom and do His will.

We ask for our daily supply, and we depend on Him on everything. We acknowledge that we are weak, and we ask Him to deliver us from the evil one.

We praise Him, extol Him, and revere Him. As we pray in this way, we pray ourselves into God, and He becomes our rich supply; by this supply, we can live the Christian life and church life.

When we pray, we have no confidence in ourselves; we trust only in the Lord and in the fresh supply that constantly comes from Him.

To pray is actually to declare, “Not I, but Christ”; our prayer testifies that we do not exercise any self-effort to deal with the situation at hand.

Humanly speaking, we are learning how to solve this situation, untangle that problem, and take care of that need.

But we need to learn the secret of experiencing, Not I but Christ. This secret is prayer.

We should not belittle the matter of prayer. In our living, in our work, in our home life, in the church life, in our serving the Lord, and in all things, may prayer increase in us.

May we learn to pray more, even more than before. If we don’t pray more, this means that we still rely on ourselves.

Even in the church life and in serving the Lord, it is so easy and quite natural to rely on ourselves and not on prayer.

May we live our Christian life in prayer, even by persevering in prayer.

May we do our job at the office or wherever we work by prayer, turning our heart to the Lord and praying ourselves into God all the time.

In nothing we should be anxious but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, we should let our requests be made known to God, and the peace of God will guard our heart and our thoughts in Christ Jesus.

We can be content in all things, learning the secret of contentment when we are filled and when we hunger, when we abound and when we lack, by praying.

Even such a short prayer as calling on the name of the Lord, Oh Lord Jesus! – indicates that “no longer I, but Christ” (Rom. 10:12-13) and brings us into the enjoyment of His riches.

May we practice this and may this be our daily living, our living way to touch the Lord.

Lord Jesus, we are nothing and we can do nothing; we depend on You and we depend on prayer. We come to You concerning all things and we come to You in all things. We do not want to try to please You; we simply pray. Oh Lord, You asked us to deny the self if we want to follow You; we come to You, Lord, and we pray. May it be no longer I but Christ today. May it be Christ living in us. We put aside our self-effort to deal with any situation, and we turn to You! Keep us in a spirit and atmosphere of prayer. May we persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving. Oh Lord, above all and before all things, may we pray! May we learn to boast in You, for we depend on You. We bring all our requests before You. We make our requests known to You, and we give You all our anxious thoughts. May the peace of God guard our hearts and our thoughts in Christ Jesus. Amen, Lord, we open to You in prayer in all things. May we learn the secret of doing all things in Christ by prayer. May we call on Your name all the time so that we may pray ourselves into God! Amen!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Luke, msg. 27, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crucial Aspects of Matthew 5 through 7 (2025 September ITERO), week 3, The Prayer That Is Critical to the Kingdom Life, and of Those Who Are the Peacemakers, Called the Sons of God – day 5.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Now Thy flowing life, Lord, / Doth enlighten me, / Bringing in the spirit / Fellowship with Thee; / All my need supplying, / Making Thy demand, / Leading me to cleansing / And in Thee to stand. / Thy anointing Spirit / Me shall permeate, / All my soul and spirit / Thou wouldst saturate; / Every part transforming / Till conformed to Thee, / Till Thy life shall bring me / To maturity. (Hymns #841 stanzas 2-3)
  – Fill me with Thy gracious Spirit, / Fill my longing spirit now; / Fill me with Thy hallowed presence, / Come, dear Lord, and fill me now! / Fill me now! Fill me now! / Fill me with Thy Spirit now! / Strip me wholly, empty throughly, / Fill me with Thy Spirit now! (Hymns #267 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – I am crucified with Jesus, / And He lives and dwells with me; / I have ceased from all my struggling, / ’Tis no longer I, but He. / All my will is yielding to Him, / And His Spirit reigns within; / And His precious blood each moment / Keeps me cleansed and free from sin. / I’m abiding in the Lord / And confiding in His word; / I am hiding in the bosom of His love. / Yes, abiding in the Lord / And confiding in His word, / I am hiding in the bosom of His love. (Hymns #564 stanza 2 and chorus)