A Prayer Room
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
Jesus, Matthew 6:5-6
We have a prayer room. Its a grand experiment in carving out space for students who would like to carve out space in their lives to enter into the communion of God. If you don’t have experience stepping into a prayer room or in carving out space in your own home in order to persistently pursue communion with God, let me encourage you to designate a chair, a corner, and even a room for conversation with God. Entering into the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the prayer room is not meant to be a communion that you leave. Rather you are to live as a walking prayer room, for in Christ, you are the temple of the Holy Spirit. The prayer room is an admission that we require daily realignment with Jesus and the Father’s heart in order to be fully occupied with Him.
Prayer rooms are places of direct encounter with God. So much of our faith, if we are not very careful, can merely amount to a succession of second-hand spiritual experiences. We listen to talks that tell us what to think. We outsource our prayer requests to others. We even read books like this one that inspire us with other people’s encounters and adventures. But alone in a prayer room we may sometimes encounter God face-to-face without a middleman. Often the Holy Spirit speaks directly to us in ways that no ministry session ever could.
Pete Greig/Dave Roberts , Red Moon Rising: Rediscover the Power of Prayer, p. 166
Those who live loved are learning to listen to Jesus Christ our Lord.