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Gerry Gutierrez' Update
The Yes Jesus book # 8 “Our Father who art in Heaven.”
“This, then, is how you should pray”
“Our Father who art in Heaven”
Day one
The cry of an infant is a prayer to his parents. A baby cries when he is hungry, and then is fed. A baby cries when he is sleepy and is put down for a nap. A baby cries when he is wet and the diaper is changed. A baby cries when he has gases and needs to burp. A baby cries when he is scared and parents comfort him. The cry is designed for the parents' ear only. The cry of a baby is not for a stranger. The cry of a baby cannot be ignored by parents. The cry of a baby has power on the parents.
Prayer generates communion with God just as does the crying of a suckling baby with her loving and ever ready mother.
The privilege of a child is to have parents. The responsibility of a parent is to care for a child. When privilege and responsibility meet, Sweet communion is lived to its fullness. Then, this is how you should pray: “Our Father who art in Heaven”
“This, then, is how you should pray”
“Our Father who art in Heaven”
Page two
“Our” is a possessive pronoun that indicates that whatsoever follows that word belongs indisputably to the speaker in no other realm but on his mind.
It is a statement of a consumed fact that the subject and the predicate belong to each other intimately as only a son and a father can be.
Newborn triplets who were inside their mother's womb, once outside; they are still insignificant before their mother but can rightfully claim ownership and possession of “their mother” or as tiny humans claim this planet as “our world”.
In the same way believers claim God the creator of all as “Our Father” For us there is no other father and that “Father in Heaven” is “Ours.”
The only foundation over which we cry and pray is because God is “Our Father.” Jesus said: “This, then, is how you should pray. “Our Father who art in Heaven.”
“This, then, is how you should pray”
“Our Father who art in Heaven”
Page three
We have something that is “Ours.” To believe what we have in God is the foundation of our prayers.
Our father in heaven has a mansion that the heavens of the heavens cannot contain. We are the smallest dust of the universe and the creator of the Universe is “Our father” of “us.” He is in heaven yet he dwells in a small house that he loves and that is our hearts. Our body is a house where the infinite and eternal God has made His temple.
As in the word of David: “One thing Jesus – has spoken, but two things have I heard.”
Jesus is teaching us to address God as our Father at the same time he is revealing to us that “We are his children” and that is what we are to God, thanks to Jesus.
This, then, is how you should pray: “Our Father who art in Heaven”
“This, then is how you should pray”
“Our Father who art in Heaven”
Page four
Jesus taught His disciples to pray not in singular. But in plural “Our Father” not “My Father.” Jesus requires of His disciples to come together in small groups of two or three in agreement according to His will and ask whatever they want and it is given to them.
Certainly, our Lord knows our needs long before we are aware of them ourselves.
Then why should we need to ask as if He does not know?
The answer seems to be that God's aim in prayer is not to give us what we ask, but to promote a small band of brothers who renounces their wills and adopt God's will in a simple childlike manner and share the joy of communion with one another and with God who is in the midst of their prayer time.
Whatever one obtains is a byproduct of that small obedience of two or more walking together in agreement. This, then, is how you should pray” Our Father in Heaven”
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