Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 25

 

Prayer in the Name

 

Prayers are offered to God the Father with the help of God the Holy Spirit in the name of God the Son Jesus.

Prayer is to believe in Jesus as God the Son of God in the flesh or God made man.

Prayer is to believe in the name of God.

The name of God is not a word that one stamps upon the person of God. Who is anyone named “blank, blank, blank” to the absolute, eternal, infinite, omnipotent, omnipresent, totally pure, holy, perfect, incomparable, unique and matchless God?

The Hebrews found it difficult to refer to God by a name, so they invented what is called the Tetragrammaton' an unpronounceable word to say the least, equivalent to YHWH of JHVH or YAHWEH to try to say it was as if by pronouncing it we would be breathing our last. YHWH. From this comes the word “Yahweh” or Jehovah.

But what is the word that even it is considered the name of God? How does it help us to understand and to know God by only the hearing or pronouncing of it? 

With all due respect, we have to admit that it communicates nothing of what we need to understand and to believe so that we might trust and love with all our heart, soul, strength and mind.

Nonetheless, our loving Father in Heaven, full of grace, has revealed his name by saying, “I AM that I AM.” He is the only “I AM” of the universe. There is none beside him. Man, if he is to be named anything, would be “I am not.”

We derive our being and become “I AM.” Existence is unexplainable without “I AM.” Therefore we come from him and are of him and are going back to him. Prayer is that of God, talking to God about the things of God with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.

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

Gerry Gutierrez.