EPISODE 711 – SPEND TIME WITH THE LORD 

Friday, 3rd January, 2025

SPEND TIME WITH THE LORD 

“He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.”

1 John 2:6 (NKJV)

Are you born again?

If your answer is yes, then you are in Christ.

When you received Jesus, you became born again. The born again is also the new creation.

The new creation is the man in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17)

To be in Christ is to be in the Spirit.

Thus, if you are in Christ, you must live as Christ.

When you are thinking of being immersed in the Spirit, don’t adopt human techniques and religious methods. As you are in Christ you follow the example of Christ.

The matter of being immersed in the Spirit is not a matter of methods but a new living way.

To be immersed in the Spirit is an organic experience and not mechanical.

That is why you follow the example of Christ.

Christ brought to light the reality of being soaked and saturated by the Spirit.

During Jesus’ Earth Walk, the Pharisees or the religious leaders were demonstrating spirituality according to their self-gratification, man-made rules, religious traditions and legalism.

Everyone saw them as men who were enriched with divine understanding and had high-level experience in the Spirit.

But Jesus said to them, “Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do” Mark 7:13 (NKJV)

The word of God is organic and cannot find its full expression when mixed with mechanical methods.

To have a real organic experience of the Spirit, you don’t follow religious methods.

Indisputably, one of the crucial items to make one continuously experience the saturation of the Spirit is PRAYER.

However, your understanding and interpretation of prayer really matter.
When prayer is only to prove how spiritual one is, the motives become wrong.

The principle of prayer is the principle of intimate communication. Your understanding of this will help you remain consistent in PRAYER.

The Pharisees and the religious leaders prayed to prove their superiority over others. Prayer was showmanship to them.

However, Jesus showed us that prayer is basically a communion with God.

In most of the recorded prayers of Jesus, you will notice He often referred to God as Father. That was to establish the kind of relationship we are to have with God.

God is your Father and you must commune with Him as such. This is the example of Jesus to us. He showed us to walk consistently in the Spirit by maintaining a consistent relationship and communion with God as our Father.

Until you begin to recognise, understand and become conscious that God is your Father, you will always attempt to use mechanisms to connect to God.

Prayer will become a mechanic method and not an organic expression of your relationship with God.

You will spend more time with your loving Father, and freely share your burdens with Him. The more you spend time with the Father through prayer (intimate communication), the more the Father’s love and presence overwhelm, saturate and soak your heart.

The more you spend time with Him, the more you are immersed into His person and mindset.

Pray to the Father as Jesus did.

Selah.