"Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven"
When is the last time you began a prayer by focusing on how "hallowed" God's name is?
Hallowed means holy, sacred, blessed, divine, revered.
Jesus says we should approach our Father with those words in mind.
Next we need to realize that God knows what needs to happen in our situation. And our desire must be to want what He wants.
In other words we acknowledge who He is, and trust Him completely
Sometimes our prayers sound like we are talking to a short order cook. We rattle off our list of demands as we run out the door to start the day. We tell Him what we want as though He works for us... and the only time we remember our prayers is, if we think He didn't answer them.
According to Jesus that is not how we are supposed to pray...no wonder our prayer life is anemic...
We are doing it wrong.
This week let's do it right.
Make prayer a priority. Many times the disciples had to go find Jesus because He had slipped away to pray. Find a time and a place to be alone and still before God.
Begin your prayer with the realization that you have the honor of entering the presence of The Almighty. Acknowledge that you need His wisdom and direction... and then like a child who is speaking to his father, make your request known.
Keep in mind that God loves you beyond your ability to understand. And because of that, the middle of His will, is the safest place you can be.
He has told us to pray, and He has said that prayer changes things. So since Jesus took the time to give us a "prayer pattern"...let's follow it, and be amazed at what He does.
"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."
Martin Luther
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