The Holy Spirit is without measure nor can the Spirit of God be confined by rules. There are patterns of the Holy Spirit but we a greatly mistaken if we think we can pray some formula which operates more like magic to give us the desired results we want rather than a radical abandonment of self and total surrender to the Spirit of the Living God.
The first practice of prayer is to wait humbly in God's presence. Prayer can not be done on the run or in a hurry. Love propels prayer forward so love God in His own way and not in your way. Our longing is in God alone and not what God gives us or can do for us. God is the Master and we are simply humble beggars asking for bread from heaven that we neither deserve nor earn.
When in comes to praying God's Word and prayer in general, there needs to be massive shifts from the mind to the heart. Shifts from our reasoning ability to the abilities of God's Spirit. Seismic shifts and earthquakes in our soul from literal perception to spiritual intuitions.
The second practice of prayer is you will never experience the depths of God with an exalted view of yourself. As long as we continue to place confidence in our abilities, our intelligence, our flesh, our walk with the Lord will be very slow and little will change. When we no longer fear our illusions and capacity for deception but embrace them and face them head on, then God does His greatest work in us.
In my own spiritual journey, I have discovered that my illness is my greatest blessing. Without it, I wonder if I would have ever moved forward or made any progress at all in my faith in Christ? God has shown me tremendous mercy and is sanctifying me in the process. The only way we can rise courageously is by riding on the wings of the Holy Spirit.
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