Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 64

 

REPEAT AFTER JESUS,

“OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN”

 

Either “Our Father in Heaven” fills our minds or my father on earth whose name is not holy. The unholy Father’s kingdom is from below, his will is not that of God, and he will set a table for my boredom with the bread of his worries.

 

If God is not our Father in Heaven, then my father on earth and I will seek forgiveness in our own strength by attempting to build a never-ending bridge from this side of eternity to the other side over the deepest abyss.

 

If by any of our imaginations we could succeed in this, we would still have to deal with a mighty angel who does not sleep and who guards the entrance to “Paradise Lost” with a flaming sword hotter than an oven, seven times hotter.  

 

My father on earth and I, without forgiveness from God, will remain alienated from God and one another in this valley of tears called Earth. 

 

It will be useless to ask for protection from temptation and deliverance from the evil one because that is the inheritance only of those for whom God is “Our Father in Heaven”.

 

A son of a father on earth is in a fallen state and therefore under the curse with the evil one in the kingdom of darkness. Not so with those who have God as “Our Father who art in Heaven.”

 

The saved go from strength to strength, from glory to glory in the ever-increasing knowledge of God Our Father who art in Heaven. # 64.

 

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

 

Gerry Gutierrez.