Possessing vs being Possessed

Have you ever heard someone say this : "Prayer is a wonderful tool". I saw that the other day on someone's facebook status. I cannot wrap my head around that thinking at all - though at one time I could have. I think I know why. I think that this thinking ie that "prayer is a wonderful tool" is part of the whole broader thinking, that of having all the correct formulas, of possessing information, of having disciplines, of having doctrines, VS POSSESSING AND BEING TOTALLY INDWELT BY CHRIST.

Therefore, to come to this place, we can be free because it's not so much about us possessing something as it's instead about being POSSESSED.

It's truly seeing Christ in everything and as everything, the fullness of Christ, that the Father was pleased to dwell in, all His fullness is in Christ.

This fullness as consuming us

This fullness as being so woven into our entire being,

Being called into this wonderful fellowship of fullness,

Being immersed in Him.

He is the fabric of our existence, of our consciousness, totally involved in our circumstances. In Him all the fullness dwells, and when we are joined to Him, we are in this state of fullness. Yes prayer helps us to put together our lives and to see things the way we need to see them.

Little by little, as the Word dwells in us through Christ, as we dwell in Him richly, we become taken up in Christ. It's not that we through the discipline of prayer have changed anything, but that Christ has come in His power to abide and live in us, and that through His Spirit working in us, living deeply in us, we are transformed into this deeper reality of Christ.