6452	Forums / Theology Forum / Re: Romans and the Flesh Monster.	on: April 24, 2008, 08:35:37 PM
I understand the tension. Jesus was in an unending perfect fellowship with His Father. And everything that He did was ordered in eternity in the Trinitarian counsel. Being forsaken on the cross was that much more of a painful experience that we cannot fully understand, because He was in a communication that we cannot fully understand. It is why He spent nights in prayer. So that if He as a man needed to have that much prayer, how much more do we a sinners need to pray. Especially when we are faced with trials of many kinds. We need to draw strength from His communication to us of His power over all things. We need to be connected to the eternal purposes of God the Father, by going before Him, and reminding ourselves of His power to create and recreate. So that we are never forgetting our being born again. Once we forget the reality of His gracing us with salvation, then we grow hard to what His life in us is. We must return to Him who will be gracious to us. We must not leave His side until we have fully been illuminated by His revelation and His gracing us with power from on high. Because He has communicated with us of what we need to be assured of our supernatural beginning . When we have been raise up to Him by focusing on His nature and His power then we will receive new power from on high so that we will be so full of confidence that we will have an eternal vision of His working in our lives. Christ received the Spirit at His baptism. He was filled with power. Then He immediately was taken into the desert to be tempted before the start of His public ministry. He needed to be filled with power. And so we also need to have a communication of power, as we live and make decisions that will determine our level of life that we live here. In order for us to receive this kind of power, we must be familiar with the working of the Holy Spirit. As we meditate on the word, we begin to have a communication with the Spirit by that vivification process. As we learn to communicate with the Spirit, having the rite questions, having the rite pleadings, having the rite focus on God. We learn that the determination to have fellowship with the Father is by having a similar language that the Spirit gives us for wisdom. Then we learn that what we say directs us to what we experience in that fellowship. Just as we grow in wisdom in how we conduct ourselves, so we learn to communicate with Him in wisdom. Christ fellowship with His Father as He was God was unfathomable to us , and yet as a man He had to learn it in wisdom. As we learn to pray, we will not leave that place until we have been fully experiencing an assurance and power that is beyond our own ability to produce. But if we do not pray as He would be in the nature of His communicating with us, that availing praise, petition, question, then we will not receive the full benefit of Him teaching us how to be in the spiritual unity of all of the members of His body who live out their lives as a prayer before Him. So that prayer is that reality in which we share in the worship of the saints and the fellowship with them in that communication in prayer. This is Gods way of communicating with us in the Spirit to teach us wisdom , gifting us with supernatural communications from that teaching, by making us spiritually aware in that language in prayer. So that the unity of the body is built up as each one uses his supernatural gifts by that wisdom.