You may have read or heard or said in prayer these passage from Matthew 6
“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil."
If you were to ask me, I have done all. I've read, heard and said The Lord's Prayer or some would title it, The Disciple's Prayer. Being so familiar with this I thought I've already absorbed what Jesus wants me to learn about praying. On this day, my birthday, I realized how I need to be reminded again and again of this guide in prayer on how I should come to my Father in heaven--it's teaching me to focus less of myself and center on the will of God and His glory.
Jesus, before telling how we should pray, rebuked those who prayed in hypocrisy and in senseless way by repetitively babbling words. This words of Jesus warns that by praying such indicates wrong view of God:
"they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him." v.7b-8
I know I shouldn't repeat words of prayer like meaningless repetitions but that shouldn't stop me from coming to God fervently. I sure have a lot of concerns to pray to God at this point in my life: work, wedding, family and ministry. It's so easy to think that I have prayed enough, that I have depended on God enough, but busyness is like a noise that disconnects me to my Source. Prayer in a biblical way tells me, I should give the control to God over matters in life.
What Jesus shared in this passage rebukes me for praying the self-centered way and not praying repeatedly as persistent as that who go to his neighbor for bread at midnight in Luke 11.
May this encourage you too to revisit His word how we should obey Him even in familiar things like The Lord's Prayer.
“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil."
If you were to ask me, I have done all. I've read, heard and said The Lord's Prayer or some would title it, The Disciple's Prayer. Being so familiar with this I thought I've already absorbed what Jesus wants me to learn about praying. On this day, my birthday, I realized how I need to be reminded again and again of this guide in prayer on how I should come to my Father in heaven--it's teaching me to focus less of myself and center on the will of God and His glory.
Jesus, before telling how we should pray, rebuked those who prayed in hypocrisy and in senseless way by repetitively babbling words. This words of Jesus warns that by praying such indicates wrong view of God:
"they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him." v.7b-8
I know I shouldn't repeat words of prayer like meaningless repetitions but that shouldn't stop me from coming to God fervently. I sure have a lot of concerns to pray to God at this point in my life: work, wedding, family and ministry. It's so easy to think that I have prayed enough, that I have depended on God enough, but busyness is like a noise that disconnects me to my Source. Prayer in a biblical way tells me, I should give the control to God over matters in life.
What Jesus shared in this passage rebukes me for praying the self-centered way and not praying repeatedly as persistent as that who go to his neighbor for bread at midnight in Luke 11.
May this encourage you too to revisit His word how we should obey Him even in familiar things like The Lord's Prayer.
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