Teach Us to Pray: Prayer That Accesses Heaven and Changes Earth

by Corey Russell

Something told me then that it wouldn’t come cheaply—that there was a place where voices were formed. Yes, it’s the wilderness. In the same way John went to the desert praying, fasting, and eating the Word for decades, I grew to understand that God was calling me to an intense life of preparation and consecration. It would require a deep devouring of the Word of God so that, in a coming day, I would manifest the nature of Christ through my life and words. This kind of authority in preaching would be fleshed out in my life as the Word becomes flesh in us. In the same way that an electrician runs the electrical wiring through small holes to wire a house, I knew God wanted to take me on a guided tour from Genesis to Revelation, revealing His Son in Me and through Me, so that I would be entrusted with the deep mysteries of Christ. I knew that my part was to prepare for the wiring, but I also knew that there would be a day of manifestation when the light switch was turned on and that which had been prepared was ready to be a conduit of the power, glory, and conviction of the Holy Spirit. Also, during this time, the words of Leonard Ravenhill resounded in my being: “A sermon born in the head reaches the head; a sermon born in the heart reaches the heart.”

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