9301	Forums / Theology Forum / The Bible Driven Church	on: March 30, 2006, 03:48:42 PM
Were did we get the idea that prayer is a temporary solution.  Were did we get the idea that prayer was only good if it was part of a solution? Where did we get the idea that prayer was the means to change our circumstances. That view has to much fleshly purposing in it. Prayer is the natural outcry of a believer. The desire to Pray is from the Holy Spirit who infuses us with the presence of the divine consciousness an actual fellowship with the Father, an enlightened disposition in the midst of the mundane and painful reality of life. The troubles from within and without that consume us are co existent with our new life in Christ. We are divided in the sense that what we are in ourselves is terribly horrific , and what we posses in grace is extremely supernatural. We live knowing that at any time we could stumble into sin, and fall very hard. There is a war going on inside of us that even tho most of the time is unspoken in the everyday culture of the church nevertheless is common in all christian dispositions. Just because the battle is not explained, described, forced into everyday communication yet the psalmist describes a groaning that is life long and is not easily acknowledged by the best of us. Here in this battle on the inside is where we misapply applications of behavioral therapy in modern human behavioral systems of anthropology. The great deli-ma comes when theology and anthropology are taken out of the context of biblical realm of truth in every day communication. We all share psychosis, troubled relationships, loneliness, rejection, and even those who once loved us as becoming our accusers. These realities are sprung in the heart, the exist in all areas of our souls. These areas are so common in us that there is not a day where we do not experience all of these troubles in one degree or another. Just think about the corruption of the mind, that is a propensity to think about relationships in a way that is slanted to our own benefit, or with some slight intention that is more an imaginative person, whoever we co exist with in our world. We are so susceptible to creating characters of our imagination that we sometimes do not understand who we are in light of our relationships. So we depend on the perceived truth of our peers not realizing that their minds are corrupted also and slanted toward hiding what is corrupted in their minds so they can look like they are wise enough. And yet the bible depicts us all as terribly mistaken in what we think and so dependent on supernatural light of the word that any system that introduces thought patterns that do not expose these inward corruptions in their root is just a spewing of one mans imagination. And yet we all share in emotional desperation that is a disposition of unrest, anxiety, depravity. In this area we are the most corrupted. We run the gambit of emotions every day. Our thoughts are corrupted and our emotions are corrupted, and this is common to all of us. We try to hide how we feel so that we can create an illusion that we in control of ourselves even tho we are either, delusional, numb, full of hate, anxious to the point of bleeding and yet what is going on inside of us is common to every one around us to one extent or another. The truth is we live as corrupted people in a realm that is eternal. We live in the presence of a loving Father who understands all the motives, all the idols, all the peer imaginations, He knows all of the problems, the fortresses we build up to protect our independence from feeling His presence inside of us. He knows that there was a terrible reality that enter our consciousness when sin entered. He must become so real to us that our present consciousness of independence will be so obnoxious to us that no system of man could compare to His revelations of love in us by His word.