Short articles of the "Yes Jesus" book on prayer. # 11

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“This, then is how you should pray

“Our Father who art in Heaven” # 11

 

Our Bible begins with the words, “In the beginning God created the heavens and earth.” God and heaven are first. Earth and men are last. 

 

In the same way in the gospel of John: “In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and word was God. He was with God in the beginning.” 

 

First things first: God and his word are first. Man and his word are last.

 

Men’s best words presented to God in prayer must and should rightfully and imperatively be the words of Jesus. They are guaranteed to be heard by God when in obedience we repeat after him: “Our Father who art in Heaven.” 

 

Remember God as our father in Heaven. We are not overstating this fact at all. If man is capable of something, it is that of forgetting God as Father and Creator. 

 

Our ever-romantic Jesus has left to his bride the church a little flower named “Forget-me-not” in the Lord’s Supper when this is said: “Do this in remembrance of me.” It is by his body broken for us and his blood poured out for us that we can go to heaven where our God and Father dwells.

 

The origin of all forms of idolatry is when we forget God as “Our father who art in heaven.”

 

#11 GGS