Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 78.

 

Repeat after Jesus

“This, then is how”

“Our Father in Heaven.”

 

The grand finale of the 4^th of July fireworks display in Washington D.C. is very impressive, not for the colors of single firecrackers, but the great number of white, natural color explosions that lit the sky. Somehow it seemed prettier than the single, colorful explosions.

On the way home you can see children lighting their own fireworks to celebrate, and some of them are strong enough to make you wonder.

In the same way the life of prayer and ministry of Jesus was a ‘grand finale’ of God’s fireworks display, one which followed the colorful prayer life of Abraham, Isaac, Moses, Daniel, Elias, Jeremiah and others.

But the words of Jesus who said: “Greater things” being available to us to do, is only equivalent to the firecracker of the children in our neighborhood on our way home.

The work of the Kingdom is not a matter of words but of power. And for what we know, power resides in prayer and not in the amount of words, eloquence, vain repetition or amount of time expended in it, but in the “how and what” you should pray. 

The ever present 

“Grand Finale of Prayer” is in the “Lord’s Prayer.” “This, then is how” we should pray.

Preaching and praying for us is boasting in the Holy Name of God for he is and there is no other.

All that is worthy in us is the breath of God that dwells in our bodies as in a jar of clay.

 

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

 

Gerry Gutierrez.