All the time???

 

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

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1 Thes. 5:17 pray without ceasing….

 

Matthew 6:9-13 

9 Our Father in heaven,
    may your name be kept holy.

10 

May your Kingdom come soon.
May your will be done on earth,
    as it is in heaven.

11 

Give us today the food we need,[a]

12 

and forgive us our sins,
    as we have forgiven those who sin against us.

13 

And don’t let us yield to temptation,[b]
    but rescue us from the evil one.[c]

 

‘why is the lords prayer so short? Because prayer and communion are two different ideas in scripture. Walk in the spirit, pray in the spirit and Pray are all equally important and to be used… but walking in the spirit is the filling - it is the always and again… the constant in our discipleship journey…

 

Its kind of like this… you have a manual that has all the directions and insights and diagrams. You have a problem that the manual can solve. You think over the manual and you declare to your team we will do this. Then in the middle of working on the solution you say out loud to your team “We have to do A to get to B to handle C”. 

So we know scripture, We know what scripture says about the problem, we state what scripture says about the problem. In applying scripture it seems tough so we cry out to God in response to what his word says.

 

I know this is quirky - but the point is, we don’t have to quote the whole manual or bible to the problem to get to the solution. We must simply know it enough to know exactly what scripture says about that specific problem. We apply it and pray over it. All separate steps. 

 

Let me say it one more way… just to confuse you even more LOL. Don’t think of prayer as your main course of action to get to know God. Communion with God goes way beyond prayer and actually happens when we walk in the spirit… not pray in the spirit - though that is important, but rather we are aware of who God is in our day to day routine. 

 

If you are the kind of person who prays to get to know God… well that is commendable, but what about the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day? If you read scripture to know God, again that is great- but it could just end up being an encyclopedia of theology if you don’t actually commune with God. 

 

What’s most interesting to me about the Lords prayer is that the disciples had to ask Jesus how to pray… you would think that would be one of the first things Jesus would bring up to his disciples… right? 

ok, guys you are all in on this, so lets work on how to pray - do it like this STEP 1… But he didn’t.

Maybe it was because they were in communion with him daily, all day all the time everywhere… Maybe that was the point. Sure you can pray, but why not first work on just being here with me while I am actually here with you. 

AND NOW THAT HE WENT TO HEAVEN HE IN TURN SENT HIS SPIRIT TO ABIDE IN US… So maybe the point is to learn to abide with the Holy Spirit all the time while he is here with us all the time.

Don’t get me wrong and misquote me-=- prayers is important, but abiding is the key.