Perhaps prayer isn’t about you finding God but instead realizing He’s already found you.
Prayer can seem like another way to search for God. However, prayer is not about searching for Him; it’s about realizing that God has already made His home in you. This shift in perspective can transform your experience of God.
When you realize God has already found you, you are not searching to discover “where” He is. You “know” where He is. God is in you. He wants you to “be still”—to stop your striving and its distractions—and “know” He is in you (Psalms 46:10). Right before Jesus gave His life so we could have a relationship with the Father, He prayed for us to be made perfect in one (John 17:23). Now we are joined to God through Jesus, and “he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him” (1 Corinthians 6:17). We are joined to the Father. We are one with Him. He has found us and wants us to know Him as He knows us.
When you “know” the new person the Holy Spirit has created in you, you are at peace in God’s goodness. You come confidently before God in your time of need (Hebrews 4:16). His joy is your inner strength. You are not struggling to prove yourself to God. You know Jesus’ perfect work has proved you. God’s spiritual lens is not on you. It is on Jesus and what He has accomplished on your behalf. Not living under the microscope gives you freedom in your relationship with your Father. When you are free in His presence, prayer is spending time with Him, being honest with Him about your failures, and Him being frank with you. When you are “one” with Him, prayer is praising Him, seeking and knowing His wisdom, resting in His strength, and trusting He is good. Prayer is coming to know this God who has found you and made His home in you. Prayer is being at home in Him.
“Train me, God, to walk straight,” David wrote, “then I’ll follow your true path. Put me together, one heart and mind; then, undivided, I’ll worship in joyful fear” (Psalm 86:11).
What a wonderful prayer! The Holy Spirit was given to us to accomplish exactly this: an undivided heart (John 14:26). Our prayer should be for our hearts to become one with the Lord. We are already one with Him in our born-again spirit (John 3:6, 1 Corinthians 6:17), but that oneness is conditional in our soul. When what we believe in our mind and heart agrees with what is true in our born-again spirit, we are “undivided” and complete in Him.
Do you realize God has already found you? He knows your heart, and He wants you to know His. He desires you to know and love Him as He knows and loves you. Knowing the Lord, who has found you, begins when you seek to understand Him and the new life He has given you. Allowing the Word to transform your mind and bring your heart into agreement with the Father (Romans 12:2), completes you.
“Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed” (Psalms 85:10).
God had to punish sin to be just (Romans 3:23, 6:23). Otherwise, He would have been unjust. But mercy triumphs over justice (James 2:13). This problem was solved in Jesus. God the Father laid our punishment on Him (Isaiah 53:6), and now, through Jesus, we can receive God’s mercy (Ephesians 2:4-6). Therefore, mercy and truth have come together. Righteousness and peace have kissed. We are one with the Father through Jesus.
When your spirit and soul are “undivided,” you know the Father. He is in you, and you are in Him. Mercy and truth have met. Righteousness and peace have kissed. Prayer is kissing your Father’s face. It is loving, communing, and conversing with the One who lives in you and has given you His life. Prayer is God loving you, and you loving Him. He is at home in you, and you are at home in Him.
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