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).