…the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him…”
I’m hungry. Not like food hungry, I’m God hungry. I believe that faith in Christ is a supernatural curiousity. It keeps you coming back for more, and no matter how much you’ve experienced, you always want to experience more. This is good and bad. It can be bad if you cling tightly to your past experiences…if your thirst is the experience. If this is the case you’ll start to judge every experience through the limited scope of your past experience. But this thirst for more can be excellent if your thirst is to experience Jesus and not the experience. The prayer for “revelation in the knowledge” of Jesus is a thirsty prayer of more. In the greek it is: apokalupsis (revelation), a revealing, a coming, a manifestation. This is not a light statement, it’s a mysterious dive into the unknown. It’s is a crying out into the unknown, with the scary fact that the unknown can (and will) cry back. This prayer is a cry that if answered, it will not only blow the dust off of stale Christianty, but it will also shake “conventional belief” from its lukewarmness.
“God, I invite You to shake my foundation. Break fallow ground. I pray, draw me to my knees, and let me experience You in the brokenness of my humanity. Redeemer live loudly in me. Let me experience Your love new today. Let me experience Your mercy afresh. Let me know You like never before. Deeper. More intimate, I pray. Amen”