Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 74.

 

This, then, is how you should pray

“Our Father who art in Heaven”

“Your Kingdom come”

 

The kingdom of God had come, it was near, it was within, and yet to come fully.

This is not permission granted to God to come. It is not saying, “You may come now.” Neither is it to say, “Will you please stop delaying and come once and for all.” Nor is it agreeing with a Conquering Foreign King or reminding a neglectful father who has left his children in a faraway world while he vacations himself as if he did not have a family.

What is it then?

Only remembering that this is our Lord’s Prayer will shed light on the matter.

Can we say that our Lord had just finished praying when his disciples came and were convicted to ask about prayer when they saw how his prayer life was so important to Jesus, even more important than rest or sleep?

Can we conclude then what Jesus is teaching that which he himself was practicing?

Can we say then that those of Jesus who pray like Jesus, as Jesus to the Father, being one with the Father, also think and talk in the same language of oneness and agreement?

Prayer is then that of God in us talking to God in Jesus’ name with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Prayer is then God the Son, teaching God’s Children how to talk to God the Father with the help of God the Spirit.

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

 

Gerry Gutierrez.