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Living in the Supernatural
By Bill Money

Lord there is no one besides You to help in the battle between the powerful and those who have no strength; so help us our God, for we trust in You and in Your name  2 Chronicles 14:11
Prayer only works when we pray. Our time of prayer in the morning is the center point for all we do, whether we recognize it or not.

If we neglect our time of prayer and reading scripture, we rob our activities of God's power working through them. Our prayer reconfigures things.

One theologian wrote: "intercessory prayer is spiritual defiance of what is, in the way of what God has promised."

I am convinced that if Christ is both raised and Lord, then an active dependence on prayer should characterize my life.

"We are called to live with the love of Christ as a motivating force of our inner being," Jerram Barrs writes, "and actively depend on the power of God as we seek to serve and obey Him.

Prayer, moment by moment prayer, is to characterize the people of God, for we are living in a supernatural universe, one open at all times to God's intervention in our lives in this world."

(Francis Schaeffer: A Mind and Heart for God, (2010) p. 81)

As the 21st century unfolds, may we, as God's people called to ministry in the marketplace, live, whether anyone notices or not, as if we really, actually believe that we live in a supernatural universe run by a Father who loves us and has redeemed us.

May our prayer life reflect that belief, and made that life of prayer transform us, the business entrusted to us, and the lives and marketplace and world around us.