Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

19l7 THE PRAYER OF GOD
done and suffered in God, so that the groanings of Creation
constitute the prayer of God.
For what are the
travail-pains of which Paul speaks' but the birth-pangs
which precede the bringing forth of a New Creation?
And who can bring to to the birth but God?
For there is but
ONE LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE,
the Life of God. His heart is in the breast of every
creature, and his blood inthe veins of all Hesh.
The sulferings, therefore, of the whole Creation are
the sufferings of God, because everything comes to pass
within the Divine Mind. So then the groanings of Creation,
are the unutterable groanings with which the
Spirit makes intercession, and when we give up entirely
the idea of separateness, and become consciously ONE
with ALL THAT IS, we begin conjointly to pray the universal
prayer for the whole Creation
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THE PRAYER OF GOD
which is not in word but in power, power which will redeem
the whole creation from the bondage of corruption
into the glorious liberty of the children of God. This
Divine universal prayer which is prayed within us, by
the indwelling Spirit which neither slumbers nor sleeps
is the only kind that can be prayed
WITHOUT CEASING.
By means of this, we ascend into the heavenly places,
yea, into the Holy of Holies, into Heaven itself. We
cease also from our own works, and enter into his Restthe
Sabbatismos (Sabbath-keeping) which remaineth for
the people of God. For this did our Blessed Exemplar;
never speaking from himself or doing any works of his
own.
And from his life, there is a marked and marvelous
absence of what is called prayer in the sense of
asking.
'Romans viii.
For except that