Monday, January 11, 2016

TEACHINGS on PRAYER (6)

FIRST PRINCIPLES OF PRAYER




TO WHOM PRAYER IS ADDRESSED-OUR FATHER
(Matthew 6:6, 9; Luke 11:2)
Jesus teaches that the God to whom we pray is present in this realm of the spirit.  “God is spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24; see also Acts 17:28).  All that it means to call God “Father, as He is in the Lord’s Prayer, can only be realized
in deliberate and worshipful meditation. The word   father” has one important significance that must not be overlooked: in prayer, as in all other activity, we relate as children with a benevolent parent.  

Prayer, as taught by Jesus, is the means by which every human want is supplied, but this provision is incidental to personal communion with the Father.  His gifts are the precious tokens of a Fatherly regard that is filled with love for His children.





Playwright Janet Irene Thomas
Founder/Chairman/CEO
Bible Stories Theatre of
Fine & Performing Arts


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