Biblical Prayer Technique

Below is what I believe the churches should be teaching Christians about prayer. They don't because they cannot read. Effectual prayer is what the Bible is about. It is a prayer manual.

Don't believe that malarkey about God saying "I AM THAT I AM" in Exodus 3: 14. The verse is about prayer. Jethro means jutting-over-the-brim excessively abundant increase. Moses had been trying to figure out effectual prayer. Zipporah, a constantly chirping little bird, is a picture of how it bugged him all the time. In his own dry time (horeb means parched, I believe his contemplative prayer or meditation), Moses had an epiphany: our imagination is causal.

In ancient Aramaic, the second I AM, hiyeh, is a third-person personal pronoun/verb: its becoming (so much for "I AM"). That is what is wanted. THAT in the middle is Ashur, creative heat/light, passion, desire or intention. The first I AM, Ahiyeh, is I become, hence: "I become--intense causative desire--its becoming." This is effective prayer, and from this realization the Bible was born and is what the Bible is about.

God does not say that Jehovah (YHWH) is his name. YHWH is the pattern of the sentence above--God's nature: divine life (Adam), intense, causative desire (Adams "rib"), its becoming (Eve). Yes, the story of Adam and Eve is about prayer. We are the people there.

"Hey, Imagination, what is your nature?"

"Its becoming. This is my nature for ever."

Its becoming is how you prove God! “If it works, you have found him”: “All the nation brings its tithes into my stores and there is food in my house, and they test me with this,” said the Almighty Lord, “and I open a window for you in heaven and shower you with blessings until you say, ‘this is more than enough.’ And I shall cry out against the pestilence so as it may not destroy the fruit of the earth, and not one of the earth’s vines shall be ruined,” said the Almighty Lord (Malachi 3:10-11). God’s proof, Jethro, is what speaks to us. It worked for Moses.

The best, most succinct and easily accessed teaching along these lines is Neville Goddard's lecture God's Law and His Promise on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eyqadF9R9Y).

God's Law is himself. His nature is the rule of creation (the name of the book of Genesis isn't Beginnings, as in history; it is Creation, as in effectual prayer).

The law we are under is Seedtime and Harvest (Genesis 8: 22). Law means it works whether we want it to or not--it shall not cease. It isn't rules; it is just the way we are.

Our "seed" is living ideas, things we imagine in a lively sense--ideas we give life to. Real, effectual prayer for us is vivifying what we want in our imaginations, bringing the desired end-state to the state of vision. We can be there in vivid "3-D" so real and living that we can touch the things there--smell and hear and taste them--and converse with the people (the physical present will become distant and two-dimensional). For a moment. Then we let it go. The seed is planted and its harvest can be assumed to be existent destiny--we have what was asked for (Mark 11: 24).

Well, what do we do while waiting for harvest to arrive? This is the Sabbath; we rest with confidence, appreciation, gratitude, faith and the assumption of harvest. I like the way Victor Alexander translates Ephesians 4 from the Aramaic: v. 6. And One is God, Father of everyone and Supreme over all, and Omnipotent in everything and Omniscient in all of us. 7. To each one of us, however, He gave us grace according to their measure in appreciating Christ. 8. Because of that it is said [in Scriptures,] "He ascends to the highest, He furnishes a resting place and He grants rewards to humanity" (see v-a.com). Rewards are nice. Christ is the power and the wisdom of God--life in us.

Rest is Noah's nature. There is nothing we can do about the flood of facts that say that what we want is not--only we can see it by faith. We wait resting confidently in our knowledge that our seed will bear fruit because that is the Law, and the Law is the nature of God himself.

Interestingly, Noah's sons are Shem (nature/light), Ham (to wax hot/to inflame) and Japheth (expansion--its becoming)--the pattern of God's nature: Plant a live seed and wait expectantly for harvest; the desired world will appear.

Planting live seed is dangerous. If what we imagine bears fruit after its own kind, make sure it is a good kind. In Genesis 1, God planted the beautiful end-world he desires to become. We are presently in the Sabbath waiting for it. God saw everything good, wonderful, beautiful, perfect--like what we might envision the last chapters of Revelation to be like in their manifestation.

It is a running end: each seed has its own Sabbath within the eternal Sabbath--so the end manifests momentarily. THIS moment, any and every moment, can be the unveiling of the Paradise--as wonderful and full of glory as the Presence itself. When it comes to entering the rest, enjoying the Sabbath and abandoning ourselves to God, the question is far we will allow God to carry the hour: "How fully can you surrender and not be afraid?" (Dr. Frank C. Laubach, Open Windows, Swinging Doors; p. 23-24). Like the baptism in the Holy Spirit, there is nothing we can do to make it happen except to rid ourselves of self-lordship, enter the rest and simply accept God's outpouring within.

Well, about creating "seed":

First of all, you have to know exactly what you want. In the positive: I am well, not I am sick or I want to get well; I am strong, not I am weak or I want to become strong.

Second, construct a scene or drama that implies that your positive desired end is present truth. Your friend or family member sees you (literally, in your mind) and reports, "My, you look strong and healthy today!" Or you and they are out playing sports or hiking or doing business--whatever you would do if what you wanted was true.

Third, enter the scene as a three-dimensional reality, your dimensional reality. You are there at that time and place, and this present moment is not. Feel the thrill of having what you desired. It is realized. See, feel, hear your created moment which will now proceed into the future to confront you there.

Fourth, if it is possible, sleep with this dream. This is expeditious. If not, let the vision go to its appointed hour and, for yourself, snap out of it. It may be quite a shock to find that you are still here.

Time wise, it may only take seconds to reach the thrill of creating the life of what you desire. How long it takes for its gestation is up to its complexity and God. Give it to him. He can do it in moments or months, but normally what you want comes about "naturally." Just like you hadn't done anything to cause it: "It would have happened anyhow."

Don't bet on it. Plant more seed. And water your friends. Jesus, whose name means YHWH saving, is that pattern of creation speaking to us like it spoke to the prophets. He is life within us: "He that believeth on Me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water" (John 7: 38).

Stop Misreading the Bible: Exodus 3: 14 does NOT say "I AM THAT I AM."

How much of your theology is based upon what God said to Moses in Exodus 3: 14, "I AM THAT I AM"? 

This passage has not a thing in the world to do with God's "name"; it has to do with his nature. The word shem, translated as "name," actually means nature.

Moses was a student of miraculous increase, of creation. The word jethro means "jutting-over, exceedingly abundant increase." Such increase was what Mose thought about "24/7," as we say nowadays, indicated by his "wife" zipporah, a constantly chirping little bird. 

God is saying, "It's my nature."

The word AHYH, translated as "I AM," means "the One Who Comes in His Coming," the absolute sense of  "the One Who Comes."* It is distinctly FIRST person and has to do with the process of transition. The word YHWH means "his becoming." It is distinctly THIRD person and also indicates a process of transition. The two transitions are the patterns of this process: "I come," and "he, she or it becomes." These two are God's eternal nature. (* This definition according to Victor Alexander, as noted in his translation of Exodus 3: 14 from the ancient Aramaic, see v-a.com.)


The link between these two transitions is Ashur: "the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire" or "the Light"--"the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing." Ashur also signifies "Above-the-Flames” (which is the Hebrew designation for God, Elohim).

I believe that Moses was in a meditation (horeb) and God was speaking to him as his own imagination. Where does increase come from? Imagination is "the uncreated creator who creates everything from nothing" by its own spark or heat of desire. By his desire the Ineffable Most High God becomes manifest as the expansion of ourselves, the provision of abundant increase which saves us from need. Need is unlike God, so it is a variance from his nature: it is "sin." Moses gives us a Gospel of salvation from sin.

Here are some other ways we might translate Exodus 3:14 and read a more accurate basis for which the Bible was written:

"I become whatever is desired or needed by the powerful fire of imagination."
"I myself come through the passionate heat of desire as what you need."
"By intense heat of imagination I myself manifest as answer to your need."
"My desire to transcend is the creator of life in your world."

It seems to me that if God is our imagination, then the "I" in "I come (as your need's fulfillment)" is Moses' imagination itself. OUR imagination is the creator of our worlds. See Victor Alexander's translation of Ephesians 4: 7-8, "To each one of us, however, He gave us grace according to their measure in appreciating the Messiah. Because of that it is said [in Scriptures,] 'He ascends to the highest, He furnishes a resting place and He grants rewards to humanity.'"

EVIDENCE

Adam is the portrait of God. Adam's root is adam-tha: portrait. Adam also indicates the divine life, as the word dam means blood and aleph deity. The divine life, Adam, has a focused, intense, passionate desire, "heat" as it were, a "rib." Life's "rib" becomes "mother" of the living manifestation of what was desired. There is no man or woman in the story: life itself desires to become, and is what it becomes. This isn't hidden; this is the story plainly read.

Noah retreats into his ark with all of life (noah, rest; argo, continence). This is meditation. Facts flood the world, but he has desired a new world. His sons are shem, nature; ham, heat; and japheth, expansion. These are not human children, these are the nature of what is desired, the intensity of desiring, and the corresponding increase.

This barely scratches the surface.

Eternity is a long, boring time, unless . . .

Eternity is an incredibly long time. The universe is some 13-16 billion years old, but that is not a second in eternity. Think of billions of billions of years, and groups of those stacked upon each other . . .  and still not a second of eternity. You'd need some kind of TV to watch. A little music. A little . . . some kind of diversion to bide the time.

Seriously, wouldn't you get bored? No one to dance with, no easel. Even if you found yourself to be infinite mind with infinite time to think, what's the point? Unless maybe you have the power to create. "Whoa! What is this? I can make marbles to play with? That should be fun.

"Hmm. I can make the dust on them to live. That should be fun to watch. I'll make them like me when I was little and make them to grow up to be me. I'll come back to myself that way. I'll call it "The God Challenge." Let's see how they like them apples.

"Dang! Every time I make a dust to live it's me. I just blow right out of it. Oh! I know; I'll tone myself down by forgetting that I am me. I'll think that I am just the dust for a while, 'til I get settled. 

Just the dust. Just the dust. Just the dust. What is this? Where am I? What am I? I'm seeing. I'm breathing. What the . . . ? What am I doing that for? What is that I feel? I feel? Oh, wow! I feel. It's going to get dark, cold. I don't think I am going to like the feeling of that. I had better find some place I can use for shelter, find some firewood. And something to eat. I need to eat. What the heck does food look like?"

How long would it take the creator, completely ignorant of what he was and knowing nothing, to figuring out that there is a God, . . . and then find God, . . and then become God again? How long would it take for a civilization to produce a man who could learn enough about God and code to encode God in divine math?

Why is it taking us so long just to understand what already has been given?

I passed the Great White Throne Judgment. So did you.

Everyone has passed the Great White Throne Judgment. It was determined before Genesis chapter 1. See Proverbs chapter 8. In Genesis 1 God created the conclusion of the process we are in. The creation there was a work of IMAGINATION in which God set the accomplishment of his intended END. God will not be deterred nor denied but will fulfill all his will. And not one will be lost!

Quick Healing Seminar: The key to every good thing is knowing that you are God.

The key to healing and every other good thing is knowing that God is you and that you are God. Both of you are life.

Yes, you have a body. It is life that is animating it. It is God's life. God's life permeates the universe. You are God's life. When you say, "I am . . . ," that is life-the real you-speaking. But what do you say?

"[Unless] you believe that I am I, you shall die in your sins" (John 8: 24, Victor Alexander translation).

The life that God "breathed" became you, but in doing so it had to forget that it is divine life. It "ignoranced" itself as your consciousness to be on this level, and now here you are, living badly as if you were not life. You are simply ignorant that you are.

God's life wants to be found. It "is crying out from the earth" (Genesis 4: 10, Alexander). You are the earth it is crying out from. Life is knocking on the door to get you to wake up. Years ago, I heard it say in me, "Come unto Me." I saw and heard it as Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is life.

Christ, life, wants you to come to it within you. It is saying, "My 'I' is your 'I.' I am your awareness of being, your imagination. Come you unto me." Life is the healer.

Life is conscious. It is what facilitates you with mind and speech. Life is simultaneously aware of your conscious mind and the original "subconscious" mind. It knows no distinction but levels of awareness. Life knows that you are life, and that you do not know it (because life itself forgot it was life in order to become you). Become aware of life; replenish the earth-let life bring back memory of the experience of divine life. Therein is multiplying, increase and healing.

You do not need to jump through hoops to get healed by life--no yoga or meditation or reading lists or visualization or jackhammer affirmations are necessary. You do not need to go to sacred waters. The sacred place is within. Just square yourself to the divine life within you and recognize that it is you, and you are it. Say to life, "You can heal me," "Please heal me," or "I need increase," and by it you are healed. It works, because you have found Him, God. God is the life all about us, and its focus is on you.

Let me know how it goes.