“Prayer’s requisite …co-crucifixion”

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“It is when we realize our oneness with Christ in death and in resurrection, that prayer becomes the marvelous force that we find it was in the life of the Saviour; the invincible dynamic that reveals itself to be in the book of Acts; and the ineffable experience of the great saints of the ages.  It is then that our spirits, liberated by the power of the Cross from the fleshly and the soulish entanglements, ‘mount up on wings as eagles’.  It is then that communion with the infinitely adorable One Who inhabiteth Eternity, comes spontaneously and naturally to its fullest expression.  It is then that the injunction: ‘Pray without ceasing’, ceases to be an unintelligible command; for the spirit released from the thralldom of the ‘flesh-life’, and freed from all Satanic oppression by an appropriation of the full benefits of the Calvary victory, rises to take its place with Christ in the Heavenlies where prayer is the coninuous in-breathing of the life of God, which it cannot be until it is freed from all selfish ingredients, becomes at times a groaning which is unutterable, and which does not fail to move mountains, and achieve the impossible.  It is then that prayer becomes a wordking out of the will of God and therefore, must prevail be the cifficulties what they may be, however staggering the problem, however great the need.  It is then that the great desparity between what the Master said that prayer would accomplish, and the miserable caricature that it is in the actual practices of millions, is removed, and prayer blossoms out in all the glory of its true nature.”   F.J. Huegel

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