The Power of Prayer VII

Okay, at this point, you should understand the basic premise of prayer…relationship with the Father. If you have not done so already, you need to learn balance between your study of the Scripture and your quiet time. God will reveal Himself to you through your diligent pursuit of Him. However, when you dedicate time to Him in prayer, it is there that He will unravel some of the mysteries of the Gospel and give you wisdom to navigate and understand the deep things of His holy nature. There is where the relationship develops. Trust me, it is an awesome experience when you dive into the waters of truth.

So, how do you begin to experience the fullness of prayer? Here are some of the fundamentals. Throughout Scripture, we are reminded to petition the Father with our requests:

"Ask in my name, and I will do it." (John 14:14)
"I will declare the decree…Ask of me, and I shall give thee…"(Psalm 2:7-8)
"Ask me of the things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me." (Isaiah 45:11)
"Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." (Jeremiah 33:3)
"Ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts" (James 4:2-3)

You have to ask to receive. That is not too difficult to remember and perhaps the thing that we often do the most of in our prayer time. However, it goes deeper than this. Remember, God wants to give to us and care for us (Matthew 6:28-33, Luke 11:11-13). It is in His nature as your Father…after all, you are His child. Just don’t forget that it is about relationship not privilege. Your heart is not in the right place if you simply call on the Lord for answer to prayer without desiring to know Him as your Father (Isaiah 29:13).

Here is a thought that may rock your very foundations. In 1915, Albert Einstein first proposed his theory of special relativity. Essentially, this theory proposes the universe we live in includes 4 dimensions, the first three being what we know as space, and the fourth being spacetime, which is a dimension where time and space are inextricably linked. According to Einstein, two people observing the same event in the same way could perceive the singular event occurring at two different times, depending upon their distance from the event in question. These types of differences arise from the time it takes for light to travel through space. Since light does travel at a finite and ever-constant speed, an observer from a more distant point will perceive an event as occurring later in time; however, the event is "actually" occurring at the same instant in time. Thus, "time" is dependent on space (thinkquest).

On September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located underneath the Franco-Swiss border between the Jura Mountains and the Alps near Geneva, Switzerland, circulated its first particle beams. The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) at a cost of nearly 3 billion dollars. It is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons with very high kinetic energy. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the current theoretical picture for particle physics. However, it may also be the means for unlocking the string theory which suggests there are 11 dimensions not just 4 as theorized by Einstein. The very concept predicts that an intelligent force could travel through space and time and be in a million places at once conducting a million conversations without time ever passing.
It is still amazing to me that such a device was even constructed while only miles away, men and women are living in mud huts unsure whether they will eat the next day. What a vast difference. Regardless, there are several things to consider here. First, it is incredible how capable the human mind is. What a design by God Himself. The brain can process and store more than 25,000 books worth of data. That is more than the Library of Congress. Secondly, we know that God will only allow men to learn and accomplish so much. We know this from the story of Babel where men were building great and mighty things including a tower to God himself (Genesis 11). The LHC is really no different. Nothing new under the sun as we often say. However, it has enabled us to ask the questions, contemplate and dwell on the idea that God…like the very concept of eternity…has no bounds. He is not limited to space and time. “A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by or like a watch in the night” Psalm 90:4. “With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day” II Peter 3:8.