When We Pray
Teach us to pray…Luke 11:1
Jesus answered this request (prayer) with a prayer; Luke 11:2 thru 4. The way to learn to pray is to pray. The One we pray to is Father. We therefore pray like His child. Someone He loves and wants the best for. Prayer is our real opportunity to come into the real presence of God. Prayer is our invitation to enter into the Garden to experience God as Adam and Eve did before the fall. Prayer is our chance to temporarily leave all the limitations of this earth to enter heaven, Our Father who is in heaven.
The Father and the Son and the Spirit are one. Praying to the Father is praying in the name of Jesus by the power of the Spirit. Prayer is our constant invitation to experience what John experienced. I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day…Revelation 1: 9-10. John was praying. While he prayed, he was lifted from earth into heaven. Heaven, the place where the Father is. Prayer is entering the very presence of God.
When we pray, we are praying to the source of life; the power to create and sustain all there is. We are praying to our Creator; not a god we have created. We are talking to God. We are not talking about God or nor about Jesus nor about the Spirit. We are talking to Them. We are praying for His will to be done because we realize His will is the right way; the only way.
We are not praying to an eternal IT; we are praying to our Father in heaven. We are praying in the name of The Eternal Now, Revelation 1:8. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. We are praying in the Spirit. The One who moved upon the face of the waters in the beginning. Who is and was and will always be with us.
Our prayers are not coins in a vending machine whereby we select what we want God to do for us. Praying is not our chance to tell God what we think He should do about our situation. Too often we pray when we are in trouble. This is not bad. When we are at our end we enter into a heightened sense of reality. We enter the spiritual world; the real world. When we are in our most vulnerable state we become humble before The Father who can bring resolution; give us what we need.
