In our second week of The Beginners Guide to Prayer, Levi Marychurch delves into the many tensions that exist within the Christian walk. The Bible is filled with oxymorons, where God is fire and water, He is all man and all God, He is the beginning and the end. 

Prayer should be approached with the perspective that we are called to be oxymorons of living stones as described in 1 Peter 2:5. Our prayer lives, like living stones, should be natural, honest, persistent and authoritative - where we embody the oxymoron of being strong yet free following.