Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 56

 

Jesus said, “This, then, is how you should pray:

“Our Father who art in Heaven”

 

If our prayers proclaim that, “Our Father is in Heaven,” we are then also of Heavenly origin and destiny. We are citizens of another world, therefore supernatural beings destined to live supernatural lives under the umbrella-like words, “Our Father who art in Heaven”.

 

Father and children are of another Kingdom and are expected to behave differently in this natural kingdom. If you are the child of the King, you must have the “modus” of Royalty. We are to live daily in a supernatural fashion.

 

The rule of the Kingdom of God is His will, so we had better behave as royalty or not call God Our Father in Heaven at all. It is not our godly behavior that makes us children of God, but because we are children of God, we must behave in a godly manner. 

 

We are not to be confused with those hard-faced reprobates who shake their fists at God in defiance. We are among those whose countenances have changed and whose hearts of stone have been replaced with hearts of flesh, which join their hands in prayer on their knees with their faces to the ground. 

 

Nature and behavior must not be opposite from one another to the end of their destiny.

 

A prince must resemble the King in appearance as well as in conduct. # 56. 

 

This is the teaching elder on duty in matters of Prayer.

 

Gerry Gutierrez.