When we think of answers to prayer, we
often look outside ourselves to what we wish God would do in circumstances or
people around us.
However, before we see those kinds of
answers, praying the way Jesus taught does a work in us. And, it is that work
in us that prepares us for any other ways he works in fellowship with our
prayers.
Our home church is in the early steps of
exploring the Disciples Prayer, commonly called the Lord’s Prayer.[1]
As I have incorporated this model into my praying, it is doing a wonderful work
of directing my thoughts to the most important things in the world, and so
encouraging me to pray even more earnestly in things that are clearly the will
of God.
In this Vlog post I share a few minutes
worth of testimony of how praying as Jesus instructed is life-changing in both
the praying, and the expectation of how God will answer such prayers.
And remember, if you join in, please share
your testimony of what God does with you as you pray according to his will.
After teaching his disciples
to address God as, “Our Father in heaven,”
Jesus directs their attention to the very most important prayer request in the
whole wide world. If they will pray, “hallowed
be your name,” in relation to everything and anyone, they will always have
in mind the best and highest good we could ever seek.[1]
Join our home church
as we consider what it means to ask God to hallow his name in our lives, and as
we explore what it would look like to join him in his answers to our prayer.
Our journey through the Disciples’ prayer
brought us to consider why we should “pray
then like this, our Father in heaven.”[1]
What we learned is how important it is for us to get to know God as the Father
he is rather than compare or contrast him to the best or worst of earthly dads.
Join us as we explore how the personal
nature of this Father/child relationship with God is the foundation for
everything else that we pray.
