An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers. He is trying to get into touch with God. But if he is a Christian he knows that what is prompting him to pray is also God: God, so to speak, inside him. But he also knows that all his real knowledge of God comes through Christ, the Man who was God—that Christ is standing beside him, helping him to pray, praying for him.
You see what is happening. God is the thing to which he is praying—the goal he is trying to reach. God is also the thing inside him which is pushing him on—the motive power. God is also the road or bridge along which he is being pushed to that goal. So that the whole threefold life of the three-personal Being is actually going on in that ordinary little bed- room where an ordinary man is saying his prayers.
The man is being caught up into the higher kinds of life—what I called Zoe or spiritual life: he is being pulled into God, by God, while still remaining himself.
There is nothing ordinary about ordinary prayer. It is the miracle of the triune God manifesting itself in every aspect of our being. It is our goal, our God within us and our God beside us.
So, the next time we pray our “ordinary prayers” just remember that we are demonstrating the miracle of God’s existence, his presence in our being and his advocacy for us. Then, open your eyes and recognize the Eden God gave us and inhabits with us.
God is here,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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