Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 58

 

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

“Our Father who art in Heaven”

 

God, our Father in Heaven, is immutable.

That means He does not change.

Therefore, whatever you may think of prayer, 

you must not seek to change God.

 

Prayer is not to persuade God to love.

Prayer is not to make God generous.

Prayer is not to make God merciful.

Prayer is not to make God back off from doing evil.

 

God is love, generous, merciful, and good.

God is not in need of a conversion.

God’s work of creation and redemption is completed.

God does not need the wisdom of men.

 

Prayer changes things.

Men are in need of change.

There is no one good, not even one.

Prayer changes those things in men that are not good.

 

When the will of God is done in men, 

As it is done in the angels of Heaven,

Men are ready to go home praying,

“Our Father who art in Heaven” and “Thy kingdom come.”

 

God changes not; therefore we are not consumed. # 58.

 

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

 

Gerry Gutierrez.