How do we pray in the grace dispensation?
One cannot deny that the change in dispensation from Prophecy to Mystery altered the entire lifestyle of the believer. When Paul started revealing the mystery doctrine, his teachings were quite literally the flip-side of a coin from the Kingdom message. God's new economy was grace, through the finished cross work of Jesus Christ. Because of the new life and relationship we have through Christ, the rules for living had to be rewritten. It was God who revealed to Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles (Rom.11:13), a whole new way of life (Eph.3:1-7), which radically changed the pattern of living (1 Tim.1:16) from the former dispensation of law. Out of the many lifestyle changes, such as observances, forgiveness, works, baptism, and purpose, to name but a few, prayer was one of these where its practice and characteristics changed dramatically. Let's focus on prayer to provide some insight into the differences, as opposed to prayer in the previous dispensation. The risen Christ revea...