Prayer: The Lifeline Of Who We Are and What We Reflect

  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. - Philippians 4:6

The Scripture from Philippians is an invitation to partake in something greater than one self.  To invite The Holy Trinity to partake in every aspect of ones life is a call to intimacy. To be honest with myself this makes me feel uneasy, because here is the thing there are parts of my life I don't want Him in. It's messy inside my heart and head.  Because in doing so I may need to change a behavior or an outlook on something that I want or have grown comfortable with. Simply put, that scares me.

If you ask anyone what's the key to a strong relationship the most likely answer is communication. A transparency with a spouse or friend that tends to lead to an intimate relationship emotionally, spiritually, and sometimes physically if a spouse is involved. 

One way I can truly comprehend God's heart for intimacy is through the Covenant of Marriage. That God desires to know us. To know our inner most being, a cry to be intimate with us in every aspect of our life. Prayer is the lifeline for this to happen with our Creator. If this is the way we are designed for marriage and relationships. Than this is the way God designed us for relationship with him. 

Isaiah 54:5 For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer,  the God of the whole earth he is called.

I wonder why then I compartmentalize what is and isn't important to Him? I am told to bring every thought before Him. To bring my supplications before Him and bare my soul. Yet I do not bring certain aspects of my life before Him that I don't deem spiritual. The only answer I have to why I don't is I know in my heart of hearts it probably doesn't align with His will or WHO I am in Him.

To know where one stands with his or her creator deems how one handles the world. To know that you are Beloved, Child, Cherish, Beautiful gives you a different world view on the life around you. To know this and to believe this will set one free.

When one is centered in intimacy with God it reflects in words and actions in the world around them. I challenge us then to bare our soul before the King of Kings and examine our hearts in intimacy with Him.

I will leave you with one of my favorite passages:

¹¹ Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; ¹² but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, ¹³ waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet. ¹⁴ For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. ¹⁵ And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,

¹⁶ 

“This is the covenant that I will make with them
After those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws upon their heart,
And on their mind I will write them,”

He then says,

¹⁷ “And their sins and their lawless deeds
I will remember no more.”

¹⁸ Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin. ¹⁹ Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, ²¹ and since we have a great priest over the house of God, ²² let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. ²³ Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; ²⁴ and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, ²⁵ not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

Hebrews 10:11-25