Under The Fathers Wings
The Essence of Prayer
As we read and study the bible we fine the
The word prayer on nearly every page. We
can know by this that prayer is the very
essence of a faith relationship with the
living God. If we are ask if this statement
is true ,I am sure all or at least most
of us would say "of course it's true."
The most universally practiced, yet
the least understood of our human
experiences, prayer Is one of our
greatest mysteries and yet all
prayer is ,is the way we communicate
with God. Prayer is supposed to be a
two way conversation, but how often
are we guilty of doing all the talking
then hanging up without listening
to what God has to say. We act with
God like we do with each other in
many cases, never taking time to
listen to what someone has to say.
If we as humans get frustrated when
We can't get a word in edge wises.
How God must feel, we give
Him a list of needs and wants and
then we don't seem to have time
For Him to talk to us .No wonder
God call us His children, in most
cases we act like little children
but praise God !He loves us warts
and all. There is no set way or place,
to pray, we can kneel, stand, walk.
shout, whisper and ect. The important
thing is that we pray and give God
a chance to speak to us. We have
come to God in child like faith
believing that He hears ,cares, and
is able to act in our behalf. In this
lesson , we are going to learn just
what the Word says prayer is, and
is not.
2nd.Chronicles 7:14
Then if my people who are called by
my name will humble themselves and
and seek my face and turn from their
wicked ways. I will hear from heaven
and heal their lands.
We see here that prayer is nothing more
than an act of humble worship in
which we seek God with all of our hearts.
The key words here is to humble and to
Seek God with our whole heart, nothing
less than this will reach the heart of God.
We may fool our fellow Christians brothers
And sisters, but we can't fool God, but
because he loves us so, he is very
patient with us. Praise God!
Psalm 38: 15-18
For I am waiting for you, O Lord .You
must answer for me, O Lord my God.
I prayed, "Don't let my enemies gloat
over me or rejoice at my downfall."
I am on the verge of collapse, facing
constant pain. But I confess my sins,
I am deeply sorry for what I have
done.
1st.John 1:9
But if we confess our sin, to him, he
Is faithful and just to forgive us
and to cleanse us from every wrong.
When we come to the Lord in prayer
it is important that we begin with
a confession of sin. We can say well I
haven't sinned, but the word says that
we all sin and fall short of the glory
of God, that means you and me. There
are sins of omission & commissions.
When we confess ,it cleanse us . It
allow us to be able to enter the
Holy of Holies.
2st.Samuel 5:17-19
When the Philistines heard that David
had been anointed king of Israel,
they mobilized all their forces to
capture him. But David was told
they were coming and went into
the stronghold. The Philistines
arrived and spread out across the
valley of Raphaim. So David asked
the Lord, "Should I go out to fight
the Philistines? Will you hand them
over to me?" The Lord replied, "Yes
go ahead, I will certainly give
the victory."
As we see prayer is asking God for
guidance and then waiting for
His direction and leading. The
essences of prayer is just talking,
and seeking answers for our lives .
Mark 1:35
The next morning Jesus awoke long
before daybreak and went out alone
into the wilderness to pray.
Prayer is an expression of an intimate
relationship with our heavenly Father,
who makes his own love and resources
available to us. It is though prayer
that we give praises ,love and
adoration to our Father God. Prayer
is not the difficult exercise, that
we have a tendency to make it out
to be . pray is just sharing our needs,
cares , and desires with a loved one
knowing that He has our best interest at
heart.
Nehemiah 1:7
When I heard this, I sat down and wept.
In fact, for days I mourned, fasted, and
prayed to the God of heaven. Then I said
"O Lord, God of heaven, the great and
awesome God who keeps his covenant of
unfailing love with those who love him
and obey his commands. Listen to my
prayer! Look down and see me praying
night and day for your people Israel.
I confess that we have sinned against
You. Yes even my own family and I
Have sinned! we have sinned
terribly by not obeying the commands,
laws, and regulations that you gave
us though your servant Moses.
Matthew 6:5-8
And now about prayer. When you pray,
don't be like the hypocrites who love to
pray publicly on street corners and in the
synagogues where everyone can se them.
I assure you that is all the reward they
will ever get. But when you pray go away
by yourself, shut the door behind you,
and pray to your Father secretly. Then
your Father, who knows all you secrets
will reward you. When you Pray don't
babble on and on as people of other
religions do. They think their prayers
are answered by repeating their words
again and again. Don't be like them,
because your Father knows exactly
what you need even before you ask
him.
Every where in the Bible we see that in
order to have effective prayer it includes
elements of adoration , confession,
and commitment, as well as request.
Our prayer life in some ways can be
compared to marriage , it is only
as good as you make it. You can't
ignore either your marriage or your
prayer life and expect to have an
intimate relationship with your mate
or with God. Jesus taught his disciples
this. He taught it is a daily dependency
for our daily needs, commitment to
obedience, and forgiveness of sin. We
can not, and we must not, take obedience
and forgiveness of ours sins lightly, it is
a very serious aspect to our prayer life.
Luke 18:1-8
One day Jesus told his disciples a story
to illustrate their need for constant
prayer and to show them that they
must never give up. "There was a judge
in a certain city," he said, "who was a
godless man with great contempt for
everyone. A widow of that city came to
him repeatedly, appealing for justice
against someone who had harmed her.
The judge ignored her for a while, but
eventually she wore him out. I fear
neither God nor man, he said to
himself but this woman is driving
me crazy. I'm going to see that she
get justice, because she is wearing
me out her constant request!" Then
the Lord said, "Lean a lesson from
this evil judge. Even he rendered a
just decision in the end, so don't
you think God will surely give
justice, to his chosen people who
plead with him day and night? Will
he keep putting them off? But I when
I the Son of Man, return, how many
will I find who have faith?"
Nehemiah 2-4
The king ask, "Well how can I help you?"
With a prayer to the God of heaven, I
replied, "If it please Your Majesty and
if you are pleased with me, your servant,
send me to Judah to rebuild the city
where my ancestors are buried."
As we see in the above scriptures prayer
Is not a one time thing it is to be
constant and persistent. We can't just
pray once and then take to attitude that
well I prayed and God know, so why should
I ask him again, granted there are time
that we pray once and then trust God
for the answer, but in most cases it takes
consistence and persistence. Prayer can
also be spontaneous, By that it means that
all of a sudden you feel moved on by the
Holy Spirit to pray where ever you are
for something or someone.
Isaiah 1:16-20
"Come now, let us argue this out," says
the Lord. "No matter how deep the stain
of your sins, I can remove it. I can make
you as clean as freshly fallen snow. Even
if you are stained as red as crimson. I can
make you as white as wool. If you will only
obey me and let me help you, then you will
have plenty to eat. But if you keep turning
away and refusing to listen, you will be
destroyed by your enemies. I. The Lord,
have spoken!"
Philippians 4:6-7
Don't worry about anything, instead, pray
about everything. Tell God what you need,
and think him for all he has done. If you
do this, you will experience God's peace,
which is far more wonderful than the
human mind can understand. His peace
will guard your hearts and minds as you
live in Christ Jesus.
As we see here prayer is just talking
to, God our Father in heaven. The
Bible states over and over that we
must begin our prayers with
confession, that any sin has to be put
under the blood of Jesus, He invites
us to bring all our needs ,not just some
but ALL to Him in prayer. There is
nothing that we can't bring to God
and talk to Him about. If we say I don't
know how to pray, If that is so then we
don't know how to talk ,because as
we have just learned all pray is ,is
talking to God.
1st.John 5:14-15
And we can be confident that he will
listen to us when ever we ask him for
anything in line with his will. And if
we know he is listening when we make
our request, we can be sure that he will
give us what we ask for.
There is one thing we can count on if
we have submitted to God's will ,and
that is we can be confident of His
response to our earnest prayers.
If we leave the throne of grace
to soon ,we can miss out on God's
response to our prayer request.
That is why it is so important to
wait upon the Lord and not be
In to big of a hurry to leave His
presence.
2ndCorinthian 12:8-10
Three difference times I begged the Lord
eo take it away. Each time he said. "My
gracious favor is all you need. "My power
works best in your weakness." So now
I am glad to boast about my weakness."
So that the power of Christ may work
through me. Since I know it is all for
Christ's good, I am quite content with
Insults, hardships, persecutions, and
Calamities. For when I am weak, then
I am strong.
Somehow in this day and time we have
come to believe that if we pray and
believe hard enough that God owes it
to us to give us what we want, but
sometimes like Paul we find out that
God answers prayer by not giving us
what we ask for but something better.
You see we have to realize that God
knows the beginning and the end,
and because he loves us so he gives
us what he know will cause His power
to work through us, for our good and
for good of the kingdom of God.
Exodus 14-15
The Lord said to Moses "Why are you
crying out to me? Tell the people to
get moving!"
We see here that God is telling Moses
to tell the people to get a move on it .
When we pray, our prayers must be
accompanied by our willingness
to obey with our actions. We can't
ask God for something and not be
willing to do our part and expect
God to move . IF Moses hadn't
quit crying out for God to do
It, instead of obeying God and
stretched out his staff to part the
water, they would all have perished.
In some cases God say's to us I will
if you will, it's like if we pray
for a job, we can't pray and expect
God to bring the job to us, we have
to put feet to our prayers and go
find the job God has for us.
Lord thank you for teaching us that we
can come to you at anytime, anywhere.
Thank you Lord that you are never to
busy to listen to us, that you never
ignore us. help us Lord to be still
and listen to what you have to impart
to us. Thank you Lord for your love
and your promises. Let us not forget that
the essence of pray is being in your
presence's, that it bring joy, peace, hope
wisdom and cause our faith to rise
to new heights and renews our strength
to face each day with our head lifted
high knowing that in you and though
you "ALL thing are possible." As we come to
you in prayer let it be with a humble heart
in praise and adoration. In Jesus name
Amen & Amen
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