Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 77.

 

Repeat after Jesus

This, then, is how you should pray.

 

How? “This…”

When Jesus prayed, things happened.

Even though it seems that whatever I pray for turned into gold; in my heart of hearts; I knew there was more power in prayer than I knew by experience.

From Abraham to John Stott, the friends of God were impressive to me more for what they were in their private life of prayer than for their service to God, or material or visible works.

It became obvious to me that men taught more by what they were than by what they did.

In the same way men learn more by what they see than by what they heard.

I once heard a U.S. senator say to the group I was in, “I’d rather see a sermon than hear one.” The fact that there was one in the group who questioned and commented that words and deeds are not one and the same thing meant that we all, in our heart of hearts, agreed in the fact that there was a distance between what we said to believe and what we really believed. Only in Jesus that gap was non-existent.

I could not stand for myself or any of the rest of the five ‘praying preachers’ to lay hands on one another. Why? Because Jesus said that we would do greater things than him and that is not the case today. The power of Jesus is not as available to us as it was to him. There is a weak use of the power of God due to the lack of childlike faith which is taking Jesus as his word.

 

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

 

Gerry Gutierrez.