Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 65

 

REPEAT AFTER JESUS,

“OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN,

LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION.”

 

It should be safe to advise a fellow believer to “Stand in the gap for the sake of the elect, but stay away from the gap when you feed and fellowship with God in prayer.”

 

Jesus looked for solitary places to spend time alone with His Father in prayer and communion. In the night and early mornings when others slept, Jesus rested in His Father. 

 

Prayer is as gold in the morning, as silver in the afternoon, and bronze at night. It is more useful as you face your Genesis of the day than your Revelation at the end of the day before you sleep your small death as you close your eyes to rest. 

 

A car needs gas in the morning just as a man needs prayer at the break of dawn. While electric cars and smartphones recharge overnight to work all day, people of God need the “Son powered” life to live a day successfully, never forgetting that Jesus never forgot even for a moment, to pray, “Our Father who art in Heaven.”

 

Take to the gap that which you have trusted and loved in your time alone with God. Should He lead to temptation, He will open a door out of temptation. But believe and pray. 

 

“This, then, is how you should pray:

“Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Your name,

Your kingdom come, Your will be done,

On earth as it is in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread, 

And forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” # 65.

 

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

 

Gerry Gutierrez.