Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 98

 

Repeat after Jesus:

“Our Father who art in Heaven.”

 

“Our” The very first word the Lord’s Prayer teaches us that the Lord’s Prayer is not a private prayer. We must pray for other believers at least as much as we pray for ourselves because we are of the same body, a body in which each member is as important as the other members.

 

Jesus, the head of the body, is leading us in prayer. Just as much as He is praying for Himself, with Himself, and to Himself, to the glory of his own name, so we also pray being mystically related to God through him in the power of the Holy Spirit.

 

We do not only get to pray but we must pray for the sake of the body of which we are one and the same entity.

If we are the left hand of the body and develop a grave infection in our little finger, if we do not take care of it, we may have to amputate the finger for the sake of the hand, but more so for the health of the whole body.

It is “our” body, the body that belongs to the head, which is our main concern.

It is truly for Jesus’ sake and God’s sake that we must pray. Prayer is the great equalizer, signed and sealed in the oneness Jesus prayed for in John 17 and which he purchased with his own blood.

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

Gerry Gutierrez.