The Prayer of Ascension

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

Colossians 3:1–2 (NKJV)

Jesus Christ dwells in the realm of the Spirit, and He governs the whole of it. This is the realm in which all things consist, the source realm, and there, as the Living Word, He rules. The responsibility of the Christian is to learn to fellowship with Him in that realm. The Spirit of God admonishes us to seek those things which are above, in the heavenly places; this should be the pursuit of every child of God, to attain to the place where Christ has been enthroned. Prayer gives us that opportunity to live in the heavenly places, and it would seem that the more we engage in prayer, the more deeply our sense of abiding there takes root.

Prayer roots our consciousness in the reality of Christ's enthronement. We must teach ourselves to pray the prayer of ascension, in which we rise in consciousness to the heights where Christ is, for there our fellowship with the Father deepens. We ought to seek an awareness of God's right hand in our spirits and souls. To seek carries the idea that we cannot find this place unless we make the effort to pray into it, because it is prayer that gives us wings to ascend into this realm of God. We could well say that this kind of praying is the transportation system into the realm of God.

First of all, our minds must be conditioned for the heavenly through aggressive deposits of the Word. Until our minds are saturated with the light of heaven, it will be difficult to ascend in prayer, because our spirits will be weighed down by the heaviness of earthly and carnal thoughts. Waiting on the Lord in meditation brings about a shift of consciousness in the soul, from earthly thinking to heavenly desire. Meditation creates a hunger for the supernatural. The spirit that is full of the Word refuses to make its home in the earth; it yearns for heavenly communion with the Father. The Word of God will draw our consciousness into the realm of the Spirit, and this is a certainty.

I can see that the Spirit wants us to fellowship in the higher realms, and that is why He leads us constantly to the Word. The prayer of ascension begins with soaking in the Word of God. The Word then searches out and cleanses every thought and intent of the heart and mind. Let us give more attention to the Word, that we may ascend to where Christ is.