Been reading about prayer. The book I read said a good prayer life is one where you are in communion with God. What does this look like? Is it a process? Is it just prayer? A relationship? I'm not looking for a right/wrong answer. just some insight I guess. (The book didn't expand on this just continued it's focus on prayer.)
Hi MariaJoy., The Bible says if we have Jesus we have life. So that is the first and foremost thing we need to have communion with God. In Christ we have all that is required to be accepted and heard. It's a relationship based on Jesus Christ and His payment for our free access to God at all times. We come by faith in this provision knowing He hears us because of Jesus.
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Let us all come forward
and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance
and absolute conviction engendered by faith (by [SUP][
a][/SUP]that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled
and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water.
It is a relationship based on all that Jesus has provided and our faith in that provision. We don't go in our own righteousness., (right standing) we always can go in the righteousness Jesus gave us as a gift at the time we were saved and received Jesus.
As we learn about Jesus we see the Father. Jesus said if you have seen me you have seen the Father.
As we grow in this relationship He will lead us into more truth because He has given us the Holy Spirit to guide., teach and comfort us and convict us of our position as sons and daughters in Christ.
Hebrews 10:14 [SUP]14 [/SUP]For by a single offering He has forever completely cleansed
and perfected those who are consecrated
and made holy.[SUP]
15 [/SUP]And also the Holy Spirit adds His testimony to us [in confirmation of this]. For having said,
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16 [/SUP]This is the agreement (testament, covenant) that I will set up
and conclude with them after those days, says the Lord: I will imprint My laws upon their hearts, and I will inscribe them on their minds (on their inmost thoughts and understanding),
[SUP]17 [/SUP]He then goes on to say, And their sins and their lawbreaking I will remember no more.
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18 [/SUP]Now where there is absolute remission (forgiveness and cancellation of the penalty) of these [sins and lawbreaking], there is no longer any offering made to atone for sin.
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19 [/SUP]Therefore, brethren, since we have full freedom
and confidence to enter into the [Holy of] Holies [by the power and virtue] in the blood of Jesus,
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20 [/SUP]By this fresh (new) and living way which He initiated
and dedicated
and opened for us through the separating curtain (veil of the Holy of Holies), that is, through His flesh,
[SUP]21 [/SUP]And since we have [such] a great
and wonderful
and noble Priest [Who rules] over the house of God,
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22 [/SUP]Let us all come forward
and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance
and absolute conviction engendered by faith (by [SUP][
a][/SUP]that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled
and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water.
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23 [/SUP]So let us seize
and hold fast
and retain without wavering the [SUP][
b][/SUP]hope we cherish
and confess
and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who promised is reliable (sure)
and faithful to His word.