Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 80

 

Repeat after Jesus

“Our Father who art in Heaven”

“Your will be done on earth as in Heaven.”

 

The will of Satan is that one joins him who is not a child of God in Heaven.

The will of Satan is to make one doubt the fatherhood of God.

The will of Satan is to produce doubt in the word of God and in his name, so that one commits suicide by obeying Satan’s will and so jumps to death.

The will of Satan is to get us to believe that Jesus can save without the Cross.

But the will of Jesus is to love God and obey him as his son with whom he is well pleased and do his will and his alone.

 

If God did not spare his own son, pouring out his wrath upon him for our sakes, then he will do that which is necessary for our salvation and purification.

If it is the will of God that we suffer and experience pain then we too must say along with Jesus, “Not my will, but your will be done.”

It is to do the will of God that we exist. So, let us pray saying, “Your will be done on earth as it is done in Heaven.”

The perfect, pure, holy and altogether desirable will of God must be our greatest aim. It must be above any and everything for the Glory of God and the benefit of our own soul.

 

“This, then, is how you should pray:

“Our Father 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.”

 

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

 

Gerry Gutierrez.