Practices and experiences of Resonating Prayer in new and deepening ways.
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Are some gift abilities more critical in shaping the future than others?
Yes! According to Apostle Paul, prophecy is the most important spiritual ability available to everyone. What Paul calls "speaking in tongues" is what we call "prayer languages" and he considers it the least important. What does that mean?
Read MoreThe Three Waves of Modern Charismatic Christianity
Most Christians are either aware of or have been a part of the Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity of the twentieth century. These theologically conservative groups are reminiscent of the mystical phenomena seen in the book of Acts and identified by what they call the baptism of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, spiritual gifts, healing, prophecy, and exuberant worship.
According to former Fuller Seminary Professor of Church Growth Peter Wagner, there were three waves of charismatic renewal in the twentieth century.
Read MoreSpiritual Transmission in Integral Prayer
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You’re Never Alone — Meeting Your Spirit Guides
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You’re Never Alone — Meeting Your Spirit Guides
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Loving with All of Our Everything
Read MoreMy Experience with Centering Prayer and Whole-Body Mystical Awakening
Read MoreIntegral Prayer Part 7: WeSpace Prayer
The second movement of Integral prayer is the shift from praying to God to praying with God. This is moving into the relationship of prayer, not just talking to someone, but enjoying the silence of one another’s presence, and also speaking with one another.
Learning to pray with God-Beside-Us is the process of engagement with the personal face of God. This looks like learning to listen and interact with those in the invisible realm, like The Living Jesus, God’s motherly/fatherly presence, Mary, or other spiritual guides.
And it can also look like praying with the face of God-Beside-Us in all of us.
Prayer is a movement of connection between God and us. But when we realize that God is not just “out there” and discover the divine face within, we also begin to recognize that this inner face of God is not just in us, but is in other people as well. Of course it is! And not just as a nice thought or way of looking at others, but even a consciousness from which we can share and pray with together—the personal face of God-Beside-Us in and among one another!
When we can intentionally share in this awakened consciousness together with others, we are joining in the awakened field of mystical communion. This is prayer as a communal participation, not as a performance or modeling, but as an inter-subjective participation in our divine interbeing.
We call this WeSpace Prayer. And here are some dynamics of how we pray in this way.
Read MoreIntegral Prayer – Part 6: Embodied Awakened Consciousness
In traditional prayer, we are generally trying to “reach out” to God from our ordinary self. In Integral Prayer from our 1st person inner divinity, we are instead coming from our awakened consciousness within in order to reach out to others.
This flips the script of prayer, empowering us to own our divine self, our part in the body of God, our participation in divine nature. In this movement, God is not a separate being that we have to seek out, but rather we become God’s movement to others in love.
We do this best by moving into a state of consciousness that opens us up to embodied awareness in an energetic way, moving into our Christ consciousness (the divine and material incarnation—“in whom we live, move and have our being”). We call this state awakened consciousness.
It’s usually helpful at first to access this consciousness through a meditation that moves us into this energetic, embodied state, such as our Whole-Body Mystical Awakening. With more practice, we can move into this awakened state at any time throughout our day—or even all the time! We can then not only pray from but live out of this inner divinity as well.
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