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Just a few quick comments here... I began putting thismini book together when I kept seeing the question“How do I pray?” in a forum on Reddit. Honestly, I was abit flabbergasted. How does one not know how to pray?Ever since I was little, I talked to God but, then again, Ihad gone to church; not everyone got to have thatexperience. The funny thing was, once I decided towrite this, it took me awhile to figure out where to begin.I, eventually, found it best to begin in my beginning andwork my way out.Please don’t take my words as gospel. They’re onlymeant as a guide and one person’s perspective. Utilizethe ideas found within these pages, or don’t. Just seekGod for He is always there for you to find and know.Sometimes, I only repeat a verse from the Bible tospeak that which lies in my heart. Keep reaching beyondthe fear to develop even more faith. Just as loveremains ever expansive, faith also requires more roomto grow.MelanieNotes:Love,

The first words speak of time in the present while thesecond refers to something past. In the first few chaptersof Genesis, the text builds upon itself revealing that God’screation continually grows, expands, and creates.Everything remains in a forward motion. By His will, thereis no stagnation. There is a pause and this pause allowsthe Lord's inheritance-will to flourish. What do I mean byinheritance-will? It’s kinda like when a seed germinates. Ithas finally emerged from the soil but the gardener,besides watering, has only to wait until the plant growsenough leaves upon its stem before she begins pruning soit may produce at its best. At this time too, she may addsoil or nutrients, watch for invasive bugs, and check forsigns of overwatering, dehydration, browning, spots, orany other damage to the leaves orPresence InvitationSomeone who has spent their life ignoring the presenceof God, when a moment of absolute fear assails them,they finally turn to Him with pleading or anger. It’s a fairlyinevitable turn of events as if God is only here in timesof trouble. But, God’s presence means so much moreand must be viewed from a fuller understanding of Hisultimate power.One thing He tells me about His “speciality” can beconveyed by the words Now Remembrance. This simplebut somewhat elusive phrasing needs to be understoodas a complex-based relationship.

stalk. The seed is the promised will that emerges intothe world.So, imagine prayer being akin to that promised will ofGod. What then does that entail? A seed impliessomething will grow. Each seed has been geneticallyconfigured to produce a type of plant. If given the rightcircumstances, growth will happen.Mark 4, a passage conveniently referred to as TheParable of the Sower, relates how growth not onlyhappens with the right conditions but requires thoseright conditions to produce a tree that bears good fruit. Ifwe speak prayer over someone who is sick, would theright condition mean we retain the image of theirsickness in our minds, nurturing that image whilespeaking words that are contrary? No. Right conditionsrequire right thoughts and right words that lead us to theright path-direction of continued, healthy production.Now Remembrance then means the memory of God’spromised will. His will always entails an alignment withHim. And, where does he stand? He stands in theperfection of all that is. His perfection lies in health, love,joy, communion, and His covenant. Death has no placein that perfection, which may be why Jesus states inLuke 9:60, “Let the dead bury their dead: but go thouand preach the kingdom of God.”God has a plan for each and every one of us that neitherrivals others nor duplicates. Each of us has been

Faith knows. It knows what will be for it has alreadyseen. It remembers the presence of God and theperfection of His will. Through Him, all things arepossible.But, take note. Though all things are possible throughHim that does not mean the desires of our envy orjealousy will come to be. The thoughts we have of gain,designed specifically for various purposes and withdiffering skills, ideas, abilities, histories, and paths meantto be individualistic and purposeful for God’s plan. Prayingfor a specific person, thing, or career may not fall underGod’s plan for us. Aligning to that Now Remembrance ofGod’s Promised Will requires us to will testify. Will testifying admits the perfection of God. It’s the Iremembering it is of the Lord. To clarify: not the Lord, butof the Lord. When we’re not residing in the Lord, we live infear, sadness, anger, hate, manipulation, imbalance,injustice, unfairness, and general negativity. To reside inthe Lord requires faith and faith is NOT mere hope. Hopeimplies wishing for. Faith knows that God’s will hasalready come to pass. It lives in the Now Remembrance..“for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as agrain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto thismountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and itshall remove; and nothing shall be impossibleunto you.” [Matthew 17:20]

The Informal Prayer remains one I’ve personallyemployed since I was but a child. It offers the mostability to cultivate a relationship with God as not just therecognized leader but as a team member working withme. To whom do I speak? I could say He is the ‘friend inmy head.’ Not quite the same as my internal thoughts,though sometimes they run parallel. These “thoughts”correct me gently instead of harshly, speak lovinglyinstead of with the former belittlement, and steer mydirection in a manner that may confuse me at times butalways inspires me. To this friend in the head, Irecognize His voice and continue to foster thisrelationship into one of faith and trust. I speak withhumor, kindness, love, and familiarity. At times, I havebeen less than kind when I was angry and confused, yetHe has always maintained kindness and a purity ofaccording to society, do not necessarily line up with thedesire of the heart, much less the path of the Lord’s forus. Alignment to God demands the mind, body, andheart come into agreement:“That if two of you shall agree on earth astouching any thing that they shall ask, it shall bedone for them of my Father which is in heaven.For where two or three are gathered together inmy name, there am I in the midst of them.” -[Matthew 18:19-20]Informal Prayer

expression. In a sense, He acts as the one actor in a TVshow who anchors the storyline – usually older butalways the solid, down-to-earth, parental figure.Sometimes they are visibly the central figure of the storybut, oftentimes, just their presence stabilizes and offersa central axis point to which the external unfoldingdrama revolves.As a relationship between the self and God, this is oneof reflection and projection that finds commonality andcommunion. This means as we search to develop arelationship with God, we are in turn cultivating a lovingrelationship with the self. The more we trust in God, themore we realize trust in ourselves. As an expression ofselfhood, our relationship with God tells us exactlywhere we stand within, whether it’s one of union ordisunion. If we cannot trust God, we fail to trustourselves. When we rejoice in His presence, we feelthat loving presence emanating right back at us andexperience peace within our being. In thisrelationship-building, we begin stretching our formallyperceived limitations. God takes our limitations anddemands access to more. At times, we may feeloverwhelmed by the pushing of our boundaries but thenwe’re always given time to rest and realize it wasn’t sobad… until He finds us ready for more stretching. Thequiet question He asks in every moment is “How muchcan you love?” Not just Him, but us. How much can welove us?

In the Bible, there are two different words pertaining tothis topic of petition, depending upon which division ofthe Bible we happen to be reading. In the Hebrewlanguage of the Old Testament, we find taḥ ănûnmeaning supplication. In the New Testament, we havedeēsis meaning petition in the Greek language. Both,See, it’s easier to view God as a separate being.Intellectually, we know He’s not just outside of us butinside too as we are all facets of His Light. Emotionally,we struggle with understanding that our relationship withGod speaks volumes of how we judge our actual worth.Do we have absolute faith or do we think God requiresour assistance to manifest prayers? Do we question Hisauthority because we question our own authorship ofour lives?Over three hundred times the Bible mentions having fearof the Lord. Perhaps it was meant more as having awe ofthe Lord, but, I think of it as placing my fear in theLord.To give Him our fear expands faith. Placingourselves completely in God’s hands and submitting toHim, oddly enough, brings us more freedom than anysociety of this world has ever allotted to an individual.Giving up our fears and worries takes practice andbecause it takes practice, developing a familialrelationship with the Lord helps to ease the transitionand develop trust.Petition:

essentially, mean the same thing, yet I wish to point outthis difference for one reason only. In Hebrew, this nounis masculine while in Greek it happens to be feminine.Perhaps this may appear a moot point but look at it inthis manner: The Old Testament establishes thefoundation. Throughout its verses, it keeps pointing theway to the coming Messiah. That’s what the masculinedoes. It directs and commands energy. In this context, apetition or supplication claims authorship by speakingforth desire. The New Testament proclaims theMessiah’s arrival. It no longer has to direct but only toreceive. The feminine energy does just this. It receives.A petition is only as good as we can receive it. Anotherway to view this may be that the Old Testamentestablishes the Law for those who are in a state ofbecoming. They are in a state of transition between theworld and God. Most people remain stuck there theirentire lives. They require the Bible’s direction forjudgment over themselves and others. The NewTestament, on the other hand, reveals through Christthat those who receive him, in truth, become the Law.In our beginning journey with God, we petitionextensively. On our end that may sound self-serving,perhaps even a bit egotistical. But, instead, try looking atit as directing our energy to learn how to receive. It maybe self-serving but we are establishing our path withGod through the petition for the healing of our belief inour separateness. We’re laying the foundation anddirection for the coming Messiah within.

To the dead, the” battle sacrifice” atones for guilt,cleansing them of disobedience. Our obedience holdsour light. No matter the situation, there’s always amoment of choice in each of our lives in deciding on apath of sin or the path of God. Some paths begin withjust the “little” sins that eventually become bigger onesuntil law (God’s law) no longer matters. Other paths mayalso begin with sin so abominable as to cause adismantling of rightness in which we end up “sacrificing”the self as a redemption of sin (think, narcissists). Noone here makes it to death without sinning - whetherconsciously or unconsciously is another thing. Thesacrifice of battle that followers of Christ must face canbe found in the things that moved us away from God inthe first place - the obsessions, desires, ideas, negativethoughts and emotions, and the making of idols likemoney, fame, and title. Each item that leans us awayfrom God exemplifies sin.Covenantal HedgeThe hedge that’s constructed in forging a covenant withthe Lord takes those sins, both big and small, and releasesthem for the express potentiality of forgiveness. ThroughChrist, He is imbuing us with the capability of forwardmovement that was not there before. Though, on thesurface, we can appear to be moving forward in life,emotionally and mentally we tend to get stuck in oldthinking and bogged down in our shame and guilt.Consciously seeking and authoring this promise

between us and the Lord revolutionizes thought andemotion into one that’s protected in a manner that is notonly encased in love and acceptance but rewrites thefuture by releasing the burden placed upon the soul. Itreformulates the pathway and revises laid-outschematics.A human’s naturally rebellious temperament scoffs atbiblical passages that ask us to obey and fear the Lord.But, obeying the Lord places us in the position toreceive life’s flow. And, fearing the Lord, reminds us thatwhen we move away from Him, life becomes irreparablydifficult, frustrating, disappointing, and depressing.Having Him reside within (through Christ), frees us intoreceiving the glory of all this life has to offer, all that Hehas to offer. When we submit to Him and follow Hiscommand, He gifts us not only with His presence butwith His blessings.By accepting Christ within, we enter into a sacred unionthat has been fortified according to this covenantal hedge.Under the promise of the new covenant the law becomeswritten on our hearts thereby making Paul’s argument inGalatians truth (Galatians 2:11-3:25). The Lord states inJeremiah 31:33-34, “But this shall be the covenant that Iwill make with the house of Israel; After those days, saiththe Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and writeit in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall bemy people. […] for they shall all know me, from the leastof them unto the greatest of

them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and Iwill remember their sin no more.”Through Christ, a relationship with God becomessacrificial. Not as in the OT idea of sacrifice. This,instead, implies that we are sacrificing the entirety of ourbeing in truth, not just ideologically. In the OT, man wasremoved from a symbiotic, coexisting, relationship ofdependence. With the sacrifice of Christ, God made Histabernacle in the recesses of our entire being to winnowout sin in our hearts, minds, bodies, and souls. Thisallows Him to more fully navigate us onto the Christ pathand keep maneuvering us into maintaining it. Theconscious, awakened lifestyle thus born truly makes usbecome our deeds. If our thoughts and emotions arealigned to this christed path, our bodies will carry out thevery acts that God wills us to deliver. And, if we aren’taligning as promised, our deeds committed reflect uponthe law written on our hearts making us not only awareof sins committed but of the consequences in aconscious and deliberate manner. It makes it harder tomove away from God. That is His protection. The morewe integrate with God, the more freedom we, ironically,obtain.How does that work in a society with different laws andideologies? Through that covenantal integration, wemaneuver into a position of being the law and beingdirected by Spirit in situations that may have frictionalconsequences. The enemy, however, will always befound in the Lord. Enemy, here, refers to anything or

anyone who attempts to block the Lord’s will. We,humans, when confronted by someone blocking our will,tend to become belligerent and go into fighting mode.But, God, goes in the opposite direction. (A point of factto be made there - God usually goes in the oppositedirection from that perceived by society as right).Instead, the Lord wills agreement. In Matthew 17:24-27,when Peter comes to Yeshua about the temple tax, whatdoes he say? “From whom do the kings of the earthcollect tolls or a tax? From their own sons or fromothers?” And, “Peter said to him, ‘From others,’ leavingYeshua to reply with “Then the sons are exempt. But, sothat we do not offend them, go to the sea…” and hook afish with coin in its belly. Though he is indeed exempt,he will allow Peter to give a coin to not offend and causefriction. When confronted by people looking to persecutehim in Luke 6:6-11, he nullified their perception of thewritten law of the OT by plying their morality: “Is it lawfulon the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? To savelife, or to destroy it?”The only verse, perhaps, that appears to contradict thisagreement clause of God’s can be found in Mark11:12-19 when Christ kicks out the money changers andmerchants. This lone verse seems out of character forYeshua but nurtures the purification of God’s covenantthat was promised in Isaiah 56:7. God has promised tokeep His covenant with us just as we must keep ourcovenant with Him.

To command the covenant brings us into a christedstate. What does that mean? Well, it’s a three-partconscious and active choice. In giving ourselves to God(aka recognizing Christ Yeshua as the Lord and Saviorwho died for our sins) we first recognize ourselves asdivinely transfigured (read Matthew 17 for context). Therecognition and sacrificial sanctification we coalescewith when we take in the body of Christ transforms theentirety of our being - from our biological cells tomotivation for our path moving forward. It’s rather asupernatural transference from one world to another.That’s something that’s quite misunderstood. We do notremain as we are if we move ourselves into a state ofpure faith and acceptance of Christ’s presence within us.By allowing the presence of God and the ability of theHoly Spirit to work through and direct us, weautomatically move into a new state of being. (Noteveryone, however, places themselves fully into theLord’s hands but keeps one foot present in the world’sdoings, laws, and understandings).Covenant CommandThe christed state is an active flow of receiving anddoing. This, then, embodies the second part. When weread Matthew 17 we find that the chapter has beendivided into three parts, the first being thetransfiguration. In the second, we find Christ healing ademon-possed boy. Here, he actively receives the HolySpirit to cause healing in another. In the final section,called The Temple Tax, Jesus “reroutes man's will for

God's will” (Transmutation Mythology). He does this bynullifying disagreement or tension by agreeing to it. Muchof his ministry can be seen as a nullification byagreement. The only time this does not occur is whenJesus storms the temple and kicks the money changersand sellers out (Matthew 21:12-13). Technically, thisscene would rival the Old Testament’s purificationtechnique.Whenever a people had been led so far astray from God inthe OT, God would have them wiped out through war,pestilence, or flooding if they continued to turn their backson Him. But, let’s think of this in terms of how Pauldescribes the temple. He states in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20,“What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of theHoly Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and yeare not your own? For ye are bought with a price: thereforeglorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which areGod's.” The body is the temple. If the body is the temple,then Jesus ridding the money changers and merchantsfrom the temple could be seen as expressing a purging ofsin from oneself… just as with the purging God did of Hisown creation in the OT. To get to a christed state, we mustask for forgiveness for the sins we have inflicted uponothers as well as to ourselves. To maintain that christedstate, we must continue to purge God’s sacred temple (ie.our body, mind, and heart) of any transgressions that maybe in progress or showing signs of beginning.

[Matthew 6:9-13]First, he addresses the Father and praises Him. Next,he confirms that all requests made are bound on Earthas they are loosed in Heaven. In this, he givescommand as one who has command. Third, heThe covenantal command requires God’s temple to bepurified. We can’t allow that statement to scare us offfrom prayer, however. Christ, when asked how to pray,recites a simple yet impactful prayer that has a way ofcleansing us, the forgiveness of sins being the mostinfluential in this regard. The following explains:With formal prayer, we utilize the Living Word which hasbeen empowered through not only the Lord but communalrepetition. In short, it adds oomph to our prayer requests.When Jesus was asked how to pray he recited what wenow call “The Lord’s Prayer” or the “Our Father”:Formal Prayer:Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,for ever. Amen.

establishes his request for his inheritance in Heaven to bemade manifest in the physical. Fourth, he receivesforgiveness just as he gives forgiveness. This releases himto accept and command those inheritance offerings.Lastly, he confirms his covenant by asking his path besecured and gives gratitude to the Lord in all this. Thedesign simplicity of the prayer impacts the fullness of thesovereign's power and command. Most churchgoersprobably have never thought about why this prayer packs apowerful punch. Historically, it is one of the mostrecognized prayers in the world which, in itself, imbues itwith a powerful frequency. The rhythm too carries acertain vibration that the body’s energetic systemrecognizes and responds to, helping the body-temple torealign its energy signature.Formality can have other uses, particularly for thosewho are in the beginning stages of establishing arelationship with God. Using a biblical verse in prayer,just as with the Lord’s Prayer, aids in re-tuning the bodyfrequency onto the christed path (aka The Way).Incorporating verse with individualized entreaties buildsupon the Lord’s foundation of value-expression. Itnegates authorship by false “gods,” meaning it guidesindividual sovereignty and command. The Lord desiresour freedom as sovereign beings and to get there, wehave to slough off all the things and people who haveplaced ownership upon us in one form or another.Using biblical text, in general, acts as a most impactfulprayer as it is the Living Word in that the commands,

verses, and scripture hold spiritual, mental, and emotionalweight and deliverance. We may not always understandthe stories or words throughout the Bible but they operatelike symbolic coding for the House of Israel (covenantal-declared people) being written directly onto the heart.Expressing adoration creates a linking or joining up ofthe mind/body/soul temple with the Lord, automaticallyraising our vibration to one that’s conducive to the divinefrequency. This union establishes heart placement andspace resonance while opening us up to being inclusive,welcoming, accepting, and receptive to God’s presence,as well as our own. Welcoming Him formally with thanksand praise for His directorial work in our lives blesses usin return. It’s as if we’re being prepared and steeped inthe Lord’s presence to become stronger in sustaining amore divine frequency than we’ve previously been ableto.Knowing what God does for us doesn’t quite encompassthe breadth of this type of prayer. Adoration is about whoGod is not what He can do for us. The entire Bible has Godshowing us over and over who He is. In the first twoparagraphs of Genesis, He lets us know the fundamentalstructure of His being. As the creator, he exemplifies thefather, designer, foundation, and creative mind. As Spirit,He lives as an act of becoming: creating,Adoration:

Dedicating oneself to the Lord recognizes thatsynergetic, confluent, and interdependent relationshipand offers the self for the Lord’s testimony. While notnecessarily just the self that may be dedicated, so toodesigning, birthing, and founding. And, as the Christ, Hecomes into manifested Light or physical form. Being theTrinity, He exists as completion cycles:birth ➝ death ➝ rebirth,become ➝ becoming ➝ shall-be,creator ➝ preserver ➞ destroyer,foundation ➝ movement ➝ realization,and father ➝ mother ➝ son.Every single story within those pages tells of His evolution,His Becoming into His Shall-Be. He begins already formedand He ends by being reborn. The world myth soeloquently written about within those pages of the Bibleexpresses His story. As one of His creations, we, too,reveal Light refractions of His character. Adoration prayersthen become revelations of our own character. What dowe admire in ourselves? What do we need more of in ourlives? Who do we wish to become? We cannot separateGod from our own individual beings except by thelimitation of thought and emotion. If we feel separate fromGod, it’s only because our perception remains off. To feelthe love of the Lord reveals the internal knowing of thesynergetic, confluent interdependent relationship.Dedication:

do some offer up possessions to be in use for the Lordor their offspring as a parental testimony to being raisedaccording to God’s will. Through dedication, wecommand the Lord’s “gates.” In this, we line up with thewill of God and speak forth the Word. We help compelGod’s storyline by way of our concerted, activerelationship. As a type of prayer, it establishesfoundation by the awareness and commitment to therenewal of our covenant with the Lord.Dedicating ourselves to the Lord sets the ego aside. Nottheoretically does it accomplish this but He will carve outand supplant the self’s belief in its infallibility. As Heuproots the I of the world, demanding more of His divinityto shine forth, our barriers, fears, insecurities, and beliefswill be brought forth, exposed, and annihilated one by one.He demands the cleansing of His temples. Like the onetime Jesus raged, “And Jesus went into the temple of God,and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple,and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and theseats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It iswritten, My house shall be called the house of prayer; butye have made it a den of thieves” (Matthew 21:12-13).Dedication requires purification and commands ourawareness of God’s Word moving forward. Whenparents fail to understand this in the baptism of theirchildren, they violate God’s temples. And, when wededicate ourselves to God, this cannot be done lightly orfacetiously for God will demand all. When we dedicate

whatever or whomever to God, we are recognizing theChrist within. This is God’s divinity being recognizedand, in a way, being unleashed. To open the gate deniesits closing. However, God’s hand will only unleash asneeded or as recognized. So, this act of dedication asks“How much of us are we willing to give to Him?”Whereas adoration expresses praise for the Lord’scharacter, gratitude communicates praise for His acts,usually on a more personal level. So, adorationrecognizes His selfhood, gratitude is our selfhoodrecognizing His works. To express gratitude invites avibrational response on a cellular level. It changesfundamental structural systems such as cell biology.Another way of stating this is that it changes themundane to the divine. Giving gratitude “wills the throne”of those becoming sovereigns of the Lord. As the mostbasic of commands through ritual formation, it aids inincreasing the God frequency. This gathering orcommanding clusters divine frequency, weavingtogether more strongly with each repetition.His command responds to our conscious will. To speakautomatically requests a universal response. To speakforth gratitude when it’s aligned in both mind and heartcommands divine response. Aligning these twocomponents of the heart and mind particularly clearsand adjusts pathways for response ease. When not inGratitude:

alignment, it sullies direction and maintains fear,confusion, and doubt. The nonalignment thencommands the two to face and reflect upon each other.Both act as tools for the temple’s direction - the heartinforms of innate drive and desire whereas the mindformulates the understanding and acting upon it. Wheneither acts as commander, it can be assured that theego alone is in charge.“Verily I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on the earthshall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose onthe earth shall be loosed in heaven.” [Matthew 18:18]Binding forbids while loosing receives or allows. Eachbinding or loosing depends upon its existence already inHeaven and is thus reliant on the Lord’s Word only. It’sone of the differences between false prophecy andGod’s prophecy. We could be operating by the law andassume that what we do according to that law must beGod’s Word. But, that’s not quite how God operates. IfGod, through Christ’s resurrection, inscribed the lawonto our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33-34), why would we onlybe using our thought processes to lead us? God doesnot create by societal rules and society certainly doesnot operate according to God’s rules, except by theslimmest of margins. Our interpretative understanding ofGod’s Word, when under the law, comes to us fromBinding & Loosing:

external sources - the Bible and other people. If the lawhas been written on our hearts through our absolute faithin God’s guidance, our only source then comes from Goddirectly.None of the false prophets were written as having heardthe Word of the Lord. The prophets of the OT, on theother hand, externally received the Word to relay it toothers as guided. Where the NT differs can be seen inthe fact that God no longer speaks externally (after themessiah’s birth) but through Yeshua (and the apostlesfollowing his resurrection) who does not relay commandas an intercessor but instead only speaks the Father’struth that’s already written upon his very DNA.Binding and loosing are important in being a sovereign,christed being because, in the declaring and the clearingaway of the things we do not want, we can accept intoour lives the things that are right and good and thatwhich God desires for us, on an individual level. Withoutdoing so, we make allowance for things that areunacceptable acts, thoughts, or emotions of our owndestruction. And, the Lord not only wills us to sacrificethose destructive things but desires our freedom fromany diminution of our self-worth. We cannot be light if wecontinue holding onto darkness. Binding and loosingoperate in tandem; we cannot have one without theother. If we do not make this choice to bind and loose,the Lord cannot hold authority. This is why that scenewhere Yeshua throws out the money changers remainsexponentially important.

Intercession is the request for divine intervention foranother. It calls for the Lord’s presence and commandscircumcision. By circumcision, I do not refer to thestandard understanding that we have had handed down tous over the years. I refer to circumcision as cuttingourselves off from being against the divine self and God. So,in this case, it acts as a request for the willingness of theother person’s heart-thoughts to align with the Lord’s.Without this relationship agreement, healing cannothappen. Even if it’s not a conscious, recognized thought,their divine spirit can accept and move in alignment withGod as an active acceptance. Whoever intercedes acts asa will-decreed representative before the Lord.At times, our body/mind/heart temple doesn’t act inaccordance with our divine self. Sometimes, even, itmay act completely in opposition to it. In thesemoments, it would behoove us to have that intercessoryfor, in a way, it subsists as a reminder for thesafekeeping of divine rule. In a manner of speaking, thisis how the church, in general, has operated. The priest,bishops, ministers, preachers, and pope act asintercessors between the people and God as remindersof the covenant forged in Christ’s blood. It should nevertake the place of the relationship between the self andGod which many have allowed throughout the centuries.We are indeed meant to be fully conscious beings whooperate under a symbiotic relationship with Him and inIntercession:

accordance with Him, not through the consistentintervention of another. That would entail giving away ourwill to act and having a lack of conscious accountability.The christed path requires our conscious observance andintention. He requires us to set our tent up in His camp,not to be a mere camp follower who claimsrighteousness.“Again I say to you, that if two of you shall consent uponearth, concerning anything whatsoever they shall ask, itshall be done to them by my Father who is in heaven. Forwhere there are two or three gathered together in my name,there am I in the midst of them.” [Matthew 18:19-20]An agreement prayer equates to a community pact forthe command of divine will. This prevails as a communalunification and amplification or, simply put, a bullhorn.Similar to gratitude which gathers God-frequency cellstructure over time, this communal agreement quickensthe time progression amplification. It directs all within thegroup to come into alignment, first with each other andthen with Spirit.Revivals are excellent examples of the power ofcommunal prayer. These sometimes Spirit-invited,sometimes Spirit-led revivals call down God’s hand.They have two main purposes: 1. To reinvigorateAgreement:

Christ-led followers and 2. To guide potential Christfollowers to God. The primary component of revivals, onthe other hand, reconnects the covenantal relationshipwith God and man. Revivals not only hold space butallow for the receiving of soul blueprint pathways ofconsciousness. This calls Spirit to come in throughareas of accepted self-fulfilled patterns and create anincrease in divine movement. It’s as if God is taking ourset algorithmic patterns and exploiting them for afoundational rebirth. Agreement prayers help inreturning us to that foundational covenant.“Restore us to yourself, Lord, that we may return”(Lamentations 5:21).Simply put, this is the asking of forgiveness for our sins(movement away from God). Though we do sin when weviolate another’s will or otherwise hurt them in some way,I would like to focus more on the sin we commit againstourselves. The acts we commit to the world around us(usually) fail to come close to the acts we commit toourselves. By reshaping our relationship with our divineselves (or, specifically, the “God-in-the-I”), we transformour presence to the world around us. Without submittingourselves before God for forgiveness, we end up in self-castigation, condemning ourselves to “live” without God.This act leaves us in lack, limitation, failure, judgment,negativity, and misalignment toRepentance:

anything meant for the fulfillment of our soul path. Itleaves us in pursuit of the fulfillment of ourseparateness, instead of in the acceptance of ourwholeness.The first commandment of the Bible is the most importantand yet not quite understood. You shall have no other godsbefore Me (Exodus 20:3). Throughout the Bible, we aregiven names periodically of gods that other tribes serve,and even throughout our mythology, we hear about thegods of Mount Olympus, the Nordic gods, the Roman gods,and so forth. But, what if “gods” refers to anything weserve? With the gods mentioned in our mythologies, theywere representatives of an idea or phenomenon in ourworld. For example, Aphrodite (Greek) or Venus (Roman)personified the idea of love. Through her interactions withother gods, that idea of love became sullied or enriched.With Ares/Mars, the gods of war (or division), she mightbecome vindictive, vengeful, jealous, or, alternatively,protective. With Hera/Juno, she may reveal herself asspiteful and jealous or as a loving and devoted wife.Think of when we pray, we are not only recognizing ourCreator but, accordingly, recognizing and honoring Himwithin us (as our Divine Spirit). By way of operatingthrough this Divine Spirit, we utilize the core of ourperfection. When we move away from God (or ourdivinity), we disgrace that relationship, inevitably“worshiping” false gods. With the example of the Greekand Roman “gods” above, when each elemental idea

(ie. god/goddess) came into unity with another, itoperated favorably. When not seeking unity, it becameone of discord and antagonism. The movement awayfrom the Lord does serve a purpose though in thedevelopment and implementation of consciousawareness. By accepting Christ into our lives, we becomeconsciously aware of the friction that is created in ourmovement away from God; it serves to realign us to thecorrect path. When we’re called up by God to repent,we’re being required to move into that space ofawareness.Oddly enough, the definition of salvation is differentdepending on religious or secular usage. Religiously, ittends to mean being saved from sin, which then makesthis section go hand in hand with Repentance. Secularly,it refers to being protected from danger (thus, placingthis heading under the idea of Warfare). Thoughsounding similar in context, saved means to rescue,preserve, safeguard, and be delivered from damnationwhereas protected refers to being shielded, guarded,protected, or covered. The first ensures the deliverancefrom a place of danger. The second places a covenantalhedge, of sorts, as a barrier from harm no matter thelocation or circumstances. It can be surmised then fromthe slight variation in definition that salvation entails botha removal from harm and a continued wall of protectionmoving forward.Salvation:

When we consciously choose to give ourselves to the Lord,we confess our sins, receive forgiveness, recognize Christwithin us, and are given the opportunity for the kingdom ofHeaven. What does that mean? It means that not only willGod be realigning our life path to His prophesied vision forus but He has lit us from within. This light is the Light ofChrist “And the light shineth in darkness; and the darknesscomprehended it not” (John 1:5). The Light of Christ works as an outward emanation ofcommand presence. While we may be desirous ofsalvation, doing so requires us to command it.Commanding it leaves darkness in confusion and runningin fear. This is power prayer at its best.Earlier, I mentioned that under the definition ofprotection, this heading could then fall under Warfare.But, if we submit to the Light through Christ, why wouldthere be a need to go to war? We are victorious already.It’s like rebelling against authority. How can we gainauthority within if we see and honor it as establishedoutside of us? Sovereignty would always remain elusivethen. This kind of prayer demands, perhaps more sothan any other form of prayer, the conscious knowingand presence within the prophesied position ofGod-authored power. It may begin with petition butthrough the spoken breath, we become the Living Word.

means to surrender, to inclose, and to deliver up. InNoah's faith, he became hedged by God, or deliveredback up into God. While the world drowns, all within theark (God's hedge) remains protected. Noah had absolutefaith. He didn't question God's command to build the ark.He did forget to ask the Lord if the water had receded,however, and kept sending out birds to scout for land. Hetoo had impatience at this time. But, he did not try toleave the ark until the time was right. Sometimes, thedrudgery of time weighs us down and makes us think Godforgot us. But, Noah was on that ark for 10 1/2 months. Itonly rained for 40 days. God never gives up on us but Hedoes will us to not give up on him. By waiting on Him, wecan also find that faith in ourselves.The Listening StateThe story of Noah leaves us with a powerful message indeveloping patience for our faith. "Then the Lord shuthim in" (Genesis 7:16). Seems a simple line but theword, sāḡ ar (רַַגַַג ָָס ָָס ), translated here as to shut in, alsoWe have faith by holding on and pushing through the fear,and only then. When we wait for that moment ofconfrontation, we may just find that there's nothing thereto fear. The more we wait and hold, the more we come toknow that God really is there and we learn how to have afaith that's not worthless.

This story of Noah uses an interesting play on words.Ark (with a “k”) etymologically holds the meaning ofcoffer, box, or the breast or chest (as in the seat ofemotions). These words refer to something that holds orcontains, with coffer specifically referring to treasure. So,the ark, we could say, refers to the heart of God or Histreasures (aka Noah). In verse 9:13 of Genesis, the Lordestablishes a symbol of His covenant with Noah throughthe sign of a rainbow. The rainbow is a light-refractedarc following an outpouring or misting of rain. From theLatin arcus, this originally referred to the sun’s apparentmotion across the sky. Later on in Exodus, the Ark of theCovenant will be introduced, creating a bridge ofreconnection between the Ark of Noah and thecovenantal promise seen in the rainbow. In a sense,these symbolic references of the ark/arc motif refer tothe arcus of the entire biblical story. This is Godcontinually asking us to have faith in His promise. Eachstory of the OT reflects this arcus, sometimes withblatant visions revealed of the coming of the Messiahand other times merely through the story of thebloodline’s protection and provision.Each book tells the story of God perfecting His creation.Though Adam was created in a state of perfection, hewas simple and not complete in and of himself. Herequired something that would motivate creation within.Without Eve, he may have been content merely takingcare of God’s garden into eternity but, luckily for Adam,God is only about future-forward momentum. Creationrequires challenge. No learning can be had without

failure. The entire OT reflects that learning process offailure being turned into a state of perfection. God soloved David because even though David had a lot ofproblems, he kept striving and trying to perfect himselffor God. God loved Noah, Abraham, and Moses too butthey lived in an almost pure state of faith and showed noreal growth. It’s one reason the Book of Job holdssignificance. Job was seen as the most righteous man,absolutely faithful to God that even God didn’t think he’dcave to fear. He had no way to grow spiritually withoutthat friction created by Satan. Perhaps it was because ofJob that God became more active in the lives of Hiscreations (as Job and Genesis are the oldest books) inthe realization that without those external challengesthat test our faith, our worship of God should beconsidered flimsy. Can our faith stand the test of pain,grief, anger, and fear? To have absolute faith means tosacrifice our fear.The difficulty lies in the magnitude and intensity of ouremotions and thoughts. During the most horrific ofsituations, it’s easy to forget that the pain will lessen witheach day that passes. Our emotions skyrocket and ourthoughts turn recriminatory or antagonistic. Fear emulatesa contracting, inward separation from God. That feeling ofseparation causes sin to exist, for sin is separation.Estrangement from God, whether conscious or not,reflects an inner-seeking and, perhaps, covetous natureunder biblical law. How can one prevent grief though andthe accompanying emotions of fear, anger, denial, andloss? Well, we can’t but our faith must stand

through the pain and that feeling of separation. Faithdepends on our suffering because without it we wouldn’tknow our strength nor could we evolve into a morespiritual, light being. In a way, He is Lord because ofdeath, if only to bring us life. He shines in the mostfertile of fields for us and to get there we have to rise. Ineach moment of our fear, anger, or grief, we are askedto rise. In each moment, God beckons us to reach forHim.We are taught the authority of fear, sometimes from thefirst few minutes of our lives. Fear, though, exists not tobe lived in but only to cause us to desire God more and toreach for him with every fiber of our being, as well as tochange our circumstances from a life not worth living toone steeped in love and freedom.The Lord made a promise not just to protect and providefor us but to guide and instruct us. The stories imply thatHe swore that man would reflect an amended I. This canbe seen in the Christ as the restored Adam. “And so it iswritten, The first man Adam was made a living soul; thelast Adam was made a quickening [life-giving] spirit” (1Corinthians 15:45). The Bible takes us on a journey ofprogression, leading from the first sin (or movementaway from God) through the seeking and on to the finalrealization of true affinity with God. As Christ Yeshua, itbecomes a synergetic, cohesive oneness - an ancientact of the spoken law.

There are perhaps three points to consider that ChristYeshua delivered to us throughout the narratives in theNT.1. Visualization of the end goal:Christ knew the outcome of his story andcontinually made mention of it and prepared hisdisciples for it.2. Create and maintain an inner state of thedesired, resulting emotion from a visualizedendpoint:Generally speaking, Christ maintained hisequilibrium, barring a few notable episodes (suchas the money changers in the temple). But, allemotions exhibited were in the determinationand realization of that end goal.3. Trusted cooperation (a state of oneness with theend goal): All actions of Christ stayed in linewith the end goal. Everything he did, said or feltwas about that union with God, the resurrectionof life.Neville Goddard explicates “Therefore, the one whoprays is the spring of action - the directing mind - andthe one who grants the prayer.” Does that mean we’reGod? No, but he is within us. In Luke 18:17, Christstates “Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall notreceive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in nowise enter therein.” For us to be given the “kingdom ofGod” (aka our end goal), we must receive it, therebygranting it to ourselves. God doesn’t withhold, Heallows. Only we do the withholding, by not receiving.

Goddard went on to say, “Prayer succeeds by avoidingconflict.” Therefore effort, repetition, constant thought,and worry are all enemies of its fulfillment. “Thesovereign rule is to make no effort” but to allow. Whateffort did we see Yeshua put forth? Though assumed,we neither see him baptizing nor actually paying the taxcollector. At no point did he receive a coin for hisservices nor did he till the land or make any food.Always someone else did the work. The only possiblepoint when he exerted physical effort would be in John’sversion of him carrying his own cross (John 19:17).However, he did receive the Holy Spirit in order to healthe sick and spoke the Word to guide others to theultimate end goal.The last thing I wish to relay that Goddard explained sowell was, “Prayer is the elevation of the mind to thatwhich we seek.” Think about that. If prayer is theelevation to which we seek, that demands prayer not bejust a singular or trite event. Prayer, under this definition,then becomes a fluid, living, active direction of thought,emotion, and action. It essentially becomes a life-livedand a breathing movement of devotion to that resultinggoal.The listening state is a receiving state. How do wereceive? We assume the result and live the result. Itcannot be lived from a state of worry or fear but must beaccepted as a done deal. “When Jesus therefore hadreceived the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and hebowed his head, and gave up the ghost” (John 19:30).

He gave up the last of the things that held him back fromreceiving the resurrection of true life. Symbolically, wetoo must examine our lives if we still have any ghoststhat are holding us back from receiving answeredprayers.When we give ourselves to Christ fully, the Holy Spiritwill turn us inside out to winnow out the darkness withinso that only the light shines forth. Praying leads to oursalvation and our salvation leads to our resurrection.