A Prayer Paradox

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"The workings of God in you are absorbing the workings of your self." Guyon

"Pray without ceasing" 1 Thessalonians 5:17

"Be still and know that I am God" Psalm 46:10

Both scriptures teach about prayer yet seem to be at odds. A prayer paradox.

God Himself is a paradox: Lion and Lamb, Saviour and Sacrifice, Father and Friend.

The Bible too is ripe with paradox, seeming to contradict itself from page to page.

Scholars can explain all that. It's not in my viewfinder. I just want to know God and be known by Him.

Guyon instructs her readers to offer themselves to Jesus so He may take full possession.

The preliminary work:

• Believe the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in you.

• Believe Jesus meant it when He said, It is finished. Your effort cannot add to His work

• Receive the love of God

• Receive the freedom bought for you: from guilt, shame, and sin

• Believe you are a new creation created in Christ Jesus for good works

• Believe God wants to reveal Himself to you personally

• Receive the grace to see and hear in the Spirit

The three steps:

1. Come before Him

2. Pray a simple prayer of surrender, abandoning yourself to Him.

3. Wait.

This is praying without ceasing and being still at the same time.

We've solved the prayer paradox.