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A genuine man of prayer is one whose desires are fully blended into God's desires and whose thoughts are fully one with God's thoughts; he is a man in whom God's desires are imprinted, a man of revelation whose heart is a duplication of God's heart—1 Sam. 2:35; 3:21; 12:23.
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When we come to the Lord in prayer, we need to allow the Spirit to mingle our desires with His desires, lead our thoughts into His thoughts, and imprint His desires and thoughts into us; then the prayers that we utter to God with His inward desires will be precious, weighty, and valuable to Him and will cause Satan to suffer loss—Rom. 8:26-27; Phil. 4:6; Col. 4:2, 12; Mark 9:28-29; Eph. 6:10-20.
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Effective prayers for God's will to be done on earth are the expression of God's desire and intention and are the issue of our abiding in the Lord and of His words abiding in us— John 15:4-5, 7:
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Prayer is God's heart's desire passing through us and returning to God:
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The desire in our prayers does not originate with us; it originates with God and is an expression of what God desires—Eph. 1:5, 11.
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God's desire and intention are anointed into us through the Spirit and thus become our desire and intention, which we express to God in prayer—1 John 2:20, 27; 5:14-15.
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Our prayer, therefore, is God's desire and intention coming out from God, passing through us, and going back to Him—vv. 14-15.
Morning Nourishment
1 John 2:20 And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know.27 …The anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone teach you; but as His anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, abide in Him.
A genuine man of prayer is not only one who comes before God continually but also one whose desires are fully blended into God’s desires…. His thoughts are fully one with God’s thoughts.
Some prayers originate from our needs. Sometimes God answers these prayers, but He does not gain anything through these prayers. There is another kind of prayer—one that originates from God’s needs. It comes from God and is initiated by God. This kind of prayer is valuable. Those who have this kind of prayer must be in God’s presence continually, and their desires and thoughts must be mingled with God’s desires and thoughts. Because these ones live in God’s presence continually, He shows them and touches them with His desires and thoughts. These desires and thoughts become the praying ones’ desires, which in turn become their prayer.
We must learn to pray this kind of prayer. Although we are childish and weak, we must still come into His presence and allow His Spirit to mingle our desires with His desires and to lead our thoughts into His thoughts…. Eventually, His desire will become our prayer. These prayers are precious. (CWWN, vol. 38, pp. 453-454)
Today’s Reading
Daniel joined himself to God’s thoughts; he touched God’s desire and will, and they became the desires of Daniel’s heart…. When Daniel prayed according to these desires, crying out or groaning because of these desires, they became God’s desires. We must have this kind of prayer, a prayer that touches God’s heart….We should allow God’s Spirit to lead us into His heart. We should spend time to learn this lesson. When we first begin to pray in this way, there is no need to say or consider much. Our heart should be calm and undisturbed. We can bring the things we have encountered into God’s presence and consider them, or we can forget about these things and simply meditate on God’s Word. We can remain in His presence, touching God in our spirit and allowing God to touch us in the spirit. Actually, we do not have to go to God to touch Him; we can simply wait on Him. While we wait on Him in this way, something will come to our attention, and we will gain something. Then we will touch God’s desire…. In this way our desires are mingled with God’s desires, and our thoughts are one with God’s thoughts. Based on this, we can pray to God.When we bring our desires and thoughts to God, He will imprint His desires and thoughts into us to the extent that they become our desires and thoughts. These prayers are the most precious of all prayers; they are the most weighty prayers….We have to remember the Lord’s Word, which tells us to pray this way: “Our Father who is in the heavens, Your name be sanctified; Your kingdom come; Your will be done, as in heaven, so also on earth” (Matt. 6:9-10). We should not just memorize these three sentences. They should afford God’s Spirit the opportunity to bring our thoughts to God so that His desires and thoughts can be imprinted in us and become our desires and thoughts. When that happens, the prayers that we utter will be valuable. (CWWN, vol. 38, pp. 454-455)
Prayer is for God to notify us of His will, and for us to pray His will back to Him. God’s will is the starting point. He makes His will known, and we will that will in prayer. This is the cycle. (CWWN, vol. 46, p. 1174)
Further Reading: CWWN, vol. 38, ch. 59; CWWN, vol. 46, ch. 171