The Indwelling Christ is Praying to the Christ on the Throne as we Pray in Spirit

We need to offer real prayers to the Lord, that is, we need to pray in spirit so that the indwelling Christ in us is praying to the Christ on the throne as we pray the prayer of the Spirit; by prayer we are joined to the Lord as one spirit to allow Him to pray in us and express Himself through our prayer.

Lord Jesus, teach us how to pray. We open to You. We want to learn to pray the prayer that You would answer, even the prayers that You desire. May we learn to pray in a prayer. May we be one with You in our prayer. Amen, Lord, may our prayer be Your prayer and may Your prayer be our prayer. We open to You and we are one with You. Make our prayer be Christ in us praying to the Christ in the heavens so that the Lord would accomplish what He desires to do! Amen!

We believers in Christ need to be those who continue steadfastly in prayer (Acts 6:4). We not only pray, and we not only continue in prayer; we continue steadfastly in prayer.

Our habit needs to be one of prayer. When we are about to do something, we pray. As we go somewhere or speak to someone, we inwardly pray. We want to be men of prayer.

We depend on the Lord by depending on prayer, for prayer is the real denial of the self. When we pray, we not only bring our needs and desires before the Lord; much more than this, when we pray, we seek God and His will.

We want to pray not only for what concerns us but even more, for what concerns God, for what is on His heart.

What does God want to do today? What is He after? What does He want to gain at the end of this age? When we pray, we join ourselves to the Lord and we sense what is on His heart.

We seek the Lord. We may start by praying for our needs, confessing our sins, and interceding for others.

But as we linger before the Lord in prayer, as we continue to remain open to Him, we touch what God is, we see His will, and we pray for His will.

Actually, to pray is to absorb God; it is to open to Him and absorb Him so that He may pray in us and we would pray one with Him.

Prayer is the contact of the human spirit with the divine Spirit, during which we inhale God. Just as we breathe physically, we also breathe spiritually by inhaling God; we do this in prayer.

May we learn the real significance of prayer and may we learn to pray one with the Lord so that the Christ in us prays to the Christ in the heavens for God to carry out what is in His heart on the earth today.

May we continue to be open to the Lord to learn how to pray.

Pray in Prayer: Praying in the Spirit to Utter the Lord’s Prayer in our Prayer, being Mingled with God

In James 5:17 we see that Elijah was a man of like feeling with us, and he earnestly prayed that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

The Greek expression for “earnestly prayed” can also be translated as “prayed with prayer” or “prayed in prayer.”

In other words, Elijah didn’t just pray fervently to God to such an extent that God heard him and listened to his prayer. Rather, Elijah prayed in prayer, that is, a prayer was given to him by the Spirit, and he prayed that prayer.

He prayed with prayer; he contacted God, and the Spirit gave him a certain kind of prayer, so he prayed that prayer. He prayed with the prayer of the Spirit within him.

This means that we need to pray one with the Lord, even be mingled with the Lord to such an extent that our prayer is His prayer, for we pray yet it is He praying in our prayer.

Real prayers are not those that come out of a genuine seeking heart; we may have a seeking for the Lord, but we may offer prayers that are not prayers.

We may pray things that we think are good and spiritual, but they are not genuine prayers or real prayers. Our prayer must be a joint prayer in which God is mingled with our spirit.

We are mingled with God, God is mingled with us, and we are joined to the Lord as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17). We need to pray in spirit, in the mingled spirit; we need to pray in the mingling of God and man.

On the one hand, Jude 20 says that we need to pray in the Holy Spirit, that is, not pray in ourselves but express the Holy Spirit’s prayer in our prayer.

On the other hand, Ephesians 6:18 says that we should pray at every time in spirit, referring to our human spirit mingled with the Spirit of God as one spirit.

The Christian life is a matter of being in our mingled spirit, doing everything in our mingled spirit, living in our mingled spirit, walking by the Spirit, and even praying in spirit.

The Spirit is in our spirit, joined to our spirit as one spirit; when we pray, we need to pray in spirit so that we pray in prayer or pray with prayer.

He gives us the prayer, He moves in us, and He searches us, and we simply respond; we pray in prayer.

This doesn’t mean that we are subjective to the extent that we analyse all our prayers and make sure we don’t pray anything until we feel it is of the Spirit in our spirit.

Rather, we need to realise that true prayers involve both God and man, and true prayers are the issue of the Spirit of God being mingled with our spirit and our spirit being mingled with the Spirit of God (Jude 20; Rom. 8:4, 26).

This is so amazing, so real, yet so mysterious, for it is us praying, yet it is the Spirit praying in our prayer!

We exercise our spirit, deal with anything that the Lord shines on, have a clear sky between us and Him, and see something of what is in His heart.

Then, we utter the prayer given to us by the Spirit in our spirit; as we pray, we utter the prayer, but it is the Spirit who prays in our prayer.

We need to learn to pray in this way. Even when we’re in the prayer meeting of the church, though we may have a prayer list and there are some prayer burdens on the list, we need to exercise our spirit and pray in spirit. We need to pray in the mingling of God and man.

As we pray, we pray in the Holy Spirit, and we pray at every time in spirit.

We pray the word of God by means of all prayer and petition, and we pray at every time in spirit.

In this prayer, God and man are mingled together; God is the initiator and the motivator, for He prays in man and man prays in God. May we learn to pray in this way to offer real prayers to God by praying in spirit!

Lord Jesus, we want to learn to pray real prayers as we pray in spirit. Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit to come to You and pray. We open to You. We drop our concepts and refuse to let our mind take the lead. We simply want to pray in spirit. May we be those praying in the Holy Spirit and praying at every time in spirit. Hallelujah, the Holy Spirit and our spirit are mingled as one spirit, and we can pray at every time in spirit! Amen, Lord, may we learn to pray in the mingled spirit, in the mingling of God and man. May our prayer be a joint prayer in which God is mingled with our spirit. Save us from praying prayers that are not prayers. Save us from saying a multitude of words, thinking that they are prayer. May we see that genuine prayers are prayers that are mingled with God the Spirit in our spirit! Amen, Lord, mingle Yourself with us a little more today. Mingle us with Yourself as we pray. May our prayer be Your prayer and may Your prayer be our prayer. May the Spirit mingled with our spirit take the lead and may we follow to pray one with the Spirit! Amen!

Real Prayer is the Indwelling Christ Praying to the Christ on the Throne: we Pray Together with God!

Andrew Murray once said that a real prayer is the Christ who indwells us praying to the Christ who is sitting on the throne.

If we read this, we may think this is strange, for Christ is praying to Christ; however, if we prayerfully consider it, we realise that this is what the Bible is speaking about.

It is God who initiates the prayer; we have no right to initiate it. He initiates the prayer; He motivates us to pray, and He helps us and joins us in our prayer as the Spirit, for we do not know what to pray for as is fitting.

May we allow God to be the Initiator of our prayer. May we let Him be the motivator and source.

If we would have genuine prayers, prayers that are initiated by God and that touch God, we must pray in the Holy Spirit. Praying in the Holy Spirit means that the Holy Spirit and we pray together in the fellowship of the two spirits (Jude 20; 2 Cor. 13:14; Phil. 2:1).

In such a prayer we contact God, we inhale God, we absorb God, and we are filled with God, and what we utter is genuine prayer. Only prayers of this kind should be offered to God (Rev. 5:8; 8:3-4).

Real prayer is the Christ who indwells us praying to the Christ sitting on the throne.

It is the same Christ, but He comes in, He mingles Himself with us, He makes Himself one with us, and He causes us to be one with Him to the extent that we pray what He prays and His prayers become our prayers.

In the Old Testament, we can see how Abraham walked with God, and God came to him to initiate the prayer of intercession for Lot. God opened His heart to Abraham, and Abraham prayed, yet his prayers were God’s desire and intention expressed through him.

Similarly, Elijah prayed earnestly; that is, he prayed in a prayer; the Spirit gave him the prayer, and he prayed that prayer, with the result that God listened to his prayer.

We today as believers in Christ are joined to the Lord as one spirit; we have an organic union with the Lord in spirit. Christ lives in us, Christ dwells in us, and Christ and we are mingled as one.

When we pray, it is Christ who initiates the prayer. Even our prayer of repentance and confession is initiated by the Lord; unless the Spirit works within us, we can never go before God to confess our sins.

It is the Spirit who exposes and convicts us of our sins, it is the Spirit who leads us to repentance, and the prayer we pray for repentance and confession is the Lord’s prayer in our prayer.

Real prayer is the indwelling Christ praying to the Christ on the throne. He and us are one, and He in us prays; therefore we pray. This means that we allow God to pass through us and we also pass through God.

We walk in God, we speak one with God, and He speaks in us and one with us.

We can testify that we have touched this kind of prayer at some time, and we sensed God’s presence more strongly than at any other time. This is the kind of prayer that God wants us to have.

The Christ who indwells us wants to pray to the Christ on the throne so that God would carry out what He intends to do. This means that we pray in spirit, we pray in the Holy Spirit, and we pray together with God.

We may think that, when we pray, we pray to God, making a motion toward God to bring our needs and problems to Him. But we need to pray together with God.

We pray with Him; He prays with us, and we pray one with Him as He prays within us. He passes through us, we pass through God, and God and us are mingled as one to pray in oneness.

A good prayer is Christ in us praying to the Christ on the throne. This doesn’t mean that we are eliminated; rather, we are one with the Lord!

We can testify that we were in a meeting with the saints and someone prayed in this way, and we simply touched God in the words of his prayer, for his utterances were God’s coming forth.

We may have said that this particular brother released his spirit, that his spirit came forth; actually, it was God coming forth from him, for it was not only he praying but God and him praying together.

God prays in us, we pray in God, and our prayer is in the mingling of God and man, for the Christ who indwells us prays to the Christ on the throne. What a wonderful, mysterious, and glorious prayer!

This is why the Lord said that, if we abide in Him, we can ask whatever we want and it will be done for us (John 15:7).

Such prayer is heard and answered by God because it is in the abiding, in the mingling, of God and man. God is mingled with us, we are mingled with God.

God is passing through man and man is passing through God so that it is God and man praying together.

Lord Jesus, thank You for being joined to us as one spirit. May our prayers be the Christ indwelling us praying to the Christ on the throne! Amen, Lord, we want to contact God, inhale God, absorb God, and be filled with God as we pray. May we offer God the genuine prayers that He desires. We exercise our spirit to contact You and be one with You. We want to be in spirit as we pray. May we pray in the mingled spirit, in the mingling of God and man. Be the Initiator and Motivator of our prayer so that God may pray in man and man may pray in God! Amen, Lord, may our prayer be the Christ indwelling us praying to the Christ on the throne! May we release our spirit as we pray! May we let God pass through us and may we pass through God as we release our spirit to pray one with God! Oh Lord Jesus, may our spirit come forth in our prayer so that God may come forth from us! We want to pray together with God and one with God so that our prayer would be an echo of His prayer and His prayer would be expressed in our prayer! Teach us to pray in this way!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1959, vol. 4, “Lessons on Prayer,” ch. 2, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Ministry of the Word and God’s Dispensing for God’s Economy (2026 March ITERO), week 1, “Steadfastly in Prayer and in the Ministry of the Word” – day 2.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Pray to fellowship with Jesus, / List’ning earnestly to Him; / Be impressed with His intentions, / Yielding to Him from within. / Pray to fellowship with Jesus, / Bathing in His countenance; / Saturated with His beauty, / Radiate His excellence. (Hymns #784 stanzas 5-6)
  – Praying always in the spirit / Is the secret we are told! / In the spirit, God to contact, / Is the secret we must hold! / Praying always in the spirit, / Never by our human thought! / Fellowship with God the Spirit / Only thus to us is brought. (Hymns #780 stanza 2 and chorus)
  – Oh, may my spirit flow, / Oh, may it flow! / Answer my prayer, dear Lord, / Oh, may it flow! / Not just commune with Thee, / I long to builded be, / Mingle with others free / In spirit, Lord. (Hymns #846 stanza 6)