A NEW PLACE
  IN INTERCESSION

  Dr. Cindye Coates

  cindyecoates@juno.com

  www.SolomonsPorch-Atlanta.com

When Jesus was living on earth, He was as one of us, while being in the form of a servant and this was before being resurrected; bringing the birth of the new creation. All has changed now. The old has passed away.

Prayer is primarily communication -communion. Now that we are one spirit being joined to the Lord, and He dwells within us, our communication is even more direct! Our thoughts are joined with Him and His, and likewise His with ours; this is how we "hear His voice" and receive His Logos (thoughts, ideas, words, communications).

Christ is not somewhere in the distance. We are joined to Him as a body is joined to it's head. So our "prayer" is different now than it would have been before redemption. Few Christians are aware of this. We should no longer see ourselves as being separated from Him in our thinking, our communion, our discourses with Him -and our prayers.

He's "in my head and in my heart (the core of my being)." When I look at something, He is seeing it too. When I feel something, He feels it too. It's no longer I that lives in me, but Christ. When I breathe, I breathe Him in. I'm like a fish in the ocean of God, and within the midst of and in union with Him, I live and am moved, and abide.

All forms and modes of religion are of the past. The need for a "middle man" is obsolete. God lives in our tent with us (Rev. 21:3), and we are continuously in His presence, and in His Being. We just need to be consciously aware of this, and live correspondingly.

So my "prayer" is simply sharing my thoughts, my feelings, and all that I can't put into words with Him - day and night, awake or asleep. He is my very life flowing through my veins. My prayer is listening to Him, receiving His impulses, as the lightning flashing within my being. Abiding in the Glorified Christ!

Few believers know anything about the change in the Lord's relationship with us since His death, burial, resurrection, ascension, exaltation, enthronement and glorification. We have learned of our union with Him in death and resurrection, but so little is understood of our union with Him in His glorification!

Jesus taught us two things about New Covenant living: He appeared at "the great feast" to proclaim, " he that believes in Me, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water." This was referring to the Holy Spirit that those who believed in Him would receive. Then John concluded, " but the Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified." The Apostle Paul knew that the indwelling of the Spirit was to be understood as Christ in us as our life. It is obvious that Christ was dispensed ( the dispensation of God) to us,not as He was when he walked the streets of Jerusalem, but as the ascended, exalted, enthroned, and glorified Christ.

Paul explained this consummation of the Christ as a walk in newness of life constituted by the very glory of God which raised Jesus from the dead; the same glory that He in His humanity was given when He ascended to the throne. " ... as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life." This is present tense glory- constituted newness! This explains why Jesus told Mary Magdalene not to cling to Him when she recognized Him in the garden after His resurrection. She was not to hold on to Him and cling to Him in the natural - familiar way she had previously known Him because He was not yet ascended to the Father. She was to know Him as her life within and not someone externally. This would only happen when He was gloried. This would involve a complete change in how she related to Christ within and how she related to God and others. As we acknowledge Christ's glorified life within, prayer enters a new dimension. Because we have been made to sit with Christ in the heavenlies, we should not think in the limited way of merely approaching the throne of God for God's provision for ourselves and others.

The spiritual dynamic is not from earth to heaven to get something from haven, but as those who by our very presence bring heaven to earth; we should be proceeding FROM the throne, from heaven, where we are seated within Christ, to the earth, administering Christ to others as the Spirit leads. Much has been said about coming to know our true identity in Christ, but we've stopped short of the full truth of that identity. We must identify with Him in His glory. I have found it quite amazing that everyone I've fellowshipped with in any depth, who have received light on the true administration of God in Christ, they have had their "prayer life" disturbed. They can no longer pray as they once did. They have been very aware of being in transition to a better place, though they may not have been aware of the weightiness of what was involved.

No more earthly prayer as usual from the backside of the cross ( before redemption). No more clinging, like Mary Magdalene, to the Christ who has yet ascended to the throne. The new place in prayer and in intercession is not outside of Christ, but in Him on the throne and glorified! I am sure there will be a need for new prayer meetings to be formed to train God's people to effectually pray in this vein- His vein. This is the new place.

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