PRAYER:Fellowship

The second form or dimension of prayer after a child of God has started growing his prayer life beginning with petition is fellowship. This is what was referred to as prayers in our opening text. What happens here is that as you begin to develop that act of supplication, after a while, if you sustain it, your prayer life graduates to becoming a fellowship. Where praying becomes something, you desire to do, it becomes a communion time between you and the spirit of God especially when it begins to inspire certain giftings of the spirit. These spiritual giftings are necessary for us to identify spiritual things.

The bible in Romans 8:26 identifies a problem we have as humans. It is either we do not know what to pray for or we do not know how to pray for what we should pray for. So, whenever we begin to engage in prayers especially praying in the language of the spirit, the spirit of God begins to lead us in the direction of praying rightly and suddenly we move from petitions to having fellowship with the spirit of God.

This can serve for both supplications in the utterance and leading of the spirit and the building of the believer. Jude 1:20 says But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. So, in this second form, the child of God begins to experience spiritual growth from the inside out and additionally, he can still make petitions in the spirit though his mind may not comprehend.