Section 13
our mouths shut. We will have to utter some thing. What we speak will be a real prayer in the spirit. This is the expression of the indwelling Christ speaking as the Spirit with His words.
When the Lord's words abide in us, His communication and expression will abide in us. Therefore, we may "ask whatsoever you will." We shall express by praying what we have received of the Lord, and it shall be done to us. This prayer is not the human, natural prayer; it is the divine prayer, the expression of the divine communi cation. While the Lord is abiding in us, express ing His thoughts, desires, intentions, and will, we then take His word and put it into expression by means of prayer. This kind of prayer is very divine, for it is the utterance and expression of the will, desire, and mind of the One who is abid ing in us and communicating Himself to us.
Verse 8 says, "In this is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit, and you shall become My disciples." The prayer in verse 7 is related to the fruit-bearing and the glorification of the Father mentioned in verse 8. We need to pray for much fruit-bearing that the Father may be glorified, that is, expressed, in the Son. In fruit-bearing the Father's divine life is expressed and so He is glorified. Only when the Father is