Prostrate In His Presence : 1

Prostrate (adjective)

pros·​trate | \ ˈprä-ˌstrāt  \

1: stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission

also : lying flat

This has to be the most submitted posture of worship that God's creation can make.

Years ago, going through what I believed at the time was the toughest time of my life, I stumbled upon this position of prayer and found out during this dark and hard time, this position of rest. I found so much peace and rest in surrendering my body to not only a position that I felt completely at ease in, but a position where I discovered, I could totally pour myself out to the Lord God in ways that seemed more difficult standing, or even kneeling. 

Moses fasted for 40 days and nights in this position as he poured himself out to God in humble submission for himself and his people. God met him right where he was. Surrendered. Prostrate.

At ninety-nine years old, Abraham was visited by God and "fell on his face", as God talked with him about the covenant He would make with him and his seed for many generations to come.

I truly believe that there is a heart - body connection when we position our hearts to surrender to the rest that is found in Christ Jesus and the secret place. As we go in to His presence with thanksgiving on our lips, soon that thanksgiving begins to soften the heart. I've found that if we just take this softening in surrender to the next step, where the heart is already prostrate, the body soon follows. Once we enter in, we find that there is such sweet peace and healing in the presence of the Holy Spirit. 

God draws us to Him over and over again, and if we will step out into the deep of all that is HIM, we will find what we really wanted all along was to be, as Merriam Webster Dictionary describes it, "completely overcome and lacking" in our own "will, or power to rise", we want and need more than anything for HIM to rise in us.

This is your true place of rest.