Indagatio Veri

Prayer is much more than asking God to intervene in our lives. Prayer does not make God turn towards us, neither does it change Him or cause His involvement.  Prayer is much more personal and much more relational than that! If we keep prayer mainly as a religious practice to cause God to 'come down' and help us out in our situation, then we are relating with God from an old-covenant perspective.  The new dispensation under Jesus is that God is now with us! There is no separation, God does not need to 'come down from heaven', He has made His home in our very being.  The Old Covenant practice of twisting God's arm to get Him to do something is over; prayer now is our glorious exploration of the union that we already have. The word pray in the Greek is   proseú x omai  (from  4314   /prós , "towards, exchange" and 2172 /eu x omai , "to wish, pray") – properly, to exchange wishes;  pray  – literally, to  interact with  the Lord by swi...

It says in Acts 16:31, 'believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your entire household.' Viewing salvation as if it is a transaction has caused thousands of people to think they are saved by their vocal 'allegiance' to God or Jesus. As if attending church or saying 'Jesus is Lord' makes God change his perspective of you (Matthew 7:22). This perspective separates truth from experience, and makes faith out to be a cognitive response to a truth principle. Believing in Jesus doesn't mean you assent to a truth principle, it means you trust Him, have seen Him to be who He actually is. You have known Him through experience (see the Greek word Epignosko). This is the knowing talked about in scripture, it is a kind of knowing that implies transformation. There is a crowd of people who claim to be Christians based on right knowledge who's lives don't carry the flavor of knowing their freedom, forgiveness, and salvation that Jesus paid for....