Prayer is open, honest communication with and heart-to-heart connection with the living God. It’s being fully surrendered to Him. True prayer is supernatural accountability to God.
To ask, “What would Jesus do?” is merely academic? To ask, “Lord Jesus, what are You telling me to do?” (and to obey what He tells you), that is prayer as accountability to Christ! If you are unwilling to be daily accountable to the risen Jesus living inside of you, are you even a Christian? “As many as are led by the Spirit are the children of God.” (Romans 8:14)
Accountability requires humility and the willingness to be open and honest about your life. People who resist and reject being held accountable are hiding things that they don’t want to become known — but Jesus already knows those things.
Without accountability, with no one to monitor and help remind them of their responsibility to comply with the rules, people tend to ignore them. Without a super strong conscience to hold them accountable, self-righteousness grows in people until they feel justified in breaking certain rules and laws.
Christians have been given a supernatural accountability — the accountability that matters most. When people truly begin to deny themselves, to daily die to their own desires, and to follow and obey the risen Jesus, He begins to personally lead, guide, and empower them from within to hear and obey Him. He seeks to hold them accountable to the glorious presence of His Spirit living inside of them. (Colossians 1:27)
When we Christians resist or reject our accountability to Christ living in us, we quench the working of God the Holy Spirit in us, and we become carnal Christians who follow the desires of our human nature rather than the desires of Christ. That darkens God the Father’s light within us and makes us like salt that has no taste until we blend in with the world and live and act no differently than the society that surrounds us. Then we try to justify ourselves by using God’s grace as an excuse to do what we want instead of what Jesus wants us to do.
Here is a reminder: To ask “What would Jesus do?” is merely academic? To ask, “Lord Jesus, what are You telling me to do?” (and to obey what He tells you), that is accountability! If you are unwilling to be daily accountable to the risen Jesus living inside of you, are you even a Christian? “As many as are led by the Spirit are the children of God.”
Bible information is one thing. The risen Jesus causing the Bible to burn in your heart day and night, is another!
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