Communion in the River of God's Presence by John Belt

By John Belt
There are many types of prayer that we can engage in, whether it be intercession, petitions or just praying in the Holy Spirit. (1 Thess. 1:2, 1 Tim. 2:1) The most primary and necessary form of prayer is our devotional prayer life. This type of prayer has no agenda except to spend time with God, interacting in His Presence. The last verse in 2 Corinthians reveals a key in the life of Paul as it states, "Let the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all." 2 Corinthians 13:14 "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen."
 
 
 
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There are many types of prayer that we can engage in, whether it be intercession, petitions or just praying in the Holy Spirit. (1 Thess. 1:2, 1 Tim. 2:1) The most primary and necessary form of prayer is our devotional prayer life. This type of prayer has no agenda except to spend time with God, interacting in His Presence. The last verse in 2 Corinthians reveals a key in the life of Paul as it states, "Let the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all."
 
2 Corinthians 13:14 "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen."
 
The most powerful thing we can learn to do as believers is to simply live in a communion with the Holy Spirit. In this place we worship God, pray in the spirit and hearing Him speak back to us words of affirmation and encouragement of our identity in Christ. This is the place where the Father's love is poured into us in the deepest part of our heart. It is really a "comm-union" or a "common union" where we discover and more fully realize the oneness that we have with Him.
 
John 14:17-18 "...the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you."
 
Adopted into His Family
 
He does not leave us as orphans but has adopted us into His family through the Spirit of Adoption, the Holy Spirit. Communal prayer is where depth is created in our relationship with God verses a life of superficiality or living by a list. This is where God writes His commandments in our hearts, where we begin to live from the inside out.
 
Hebrews 8:10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."
 
God has created us to live with a "flow of life" that is like a river, rather than being mechanical like robots. Living in communion with the Spirit enables us to live in the reality of these eternal rivers of water that Jesus said would burst out from within us.
 
John 7:37-39 "On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, 'If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.' But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified."
 
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