Matt.6:9 – Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
This is the first and most important lesson in the school of prayer, God is our Father. It was not possible for God to be our Father without the work of redemption accomplished by the Lord Jesus. We are not His children until our sins were washed away and He sent the Spirit of sonship into our hearts. We were not His children, we have been adopted through the redemptive work of Christ and the Holy Spirit coming to live in our lives so that we could become children of God. It is the Spirit inside of us that cries out, “Abba, Father”. This relationship of intimacy is why we can call Him our Father in heaven. This is where the life of prayer begins, He hears and answers our prayer because we are His children and He is our Father. Here is how Andrew Murray describes this blessing.
“To appreciate this word of adoration correctly, I must remember that none of the saints in Scripture had ever ventured to address God as their Father. The invocation places us at once in the center of the wonderful revelation the Son came to make of His Father as our Father too.…The knowledge of God’s Father-love is the first and simplest but also the last and highest lesson in the school of prayer. The personal relationship to the living God and the personal, conscious fellowship of love with Him is where that prayer begins. It is in the knowledge of God’s fatherliness, revealed by the Holy Spirit, that the power of prayer will be found to root and grow. The life of prayer has its joy in the infinite tenderness, pity, and patience of the infinite Father and in His loving readiness to hear and to help. Oh, let us take time until the Spirit has made these words spirit and truth to us, filling heart and life: Our Father who art in the heavens. Then we are indeed within the veil – in the secret place of power where prayer always prevails.”
Beginning our prayer in this place of intimacy is why our prayer is so effective. We have access to our Father in heaven, whatever we ask Him in the name of Jesus we will certainly receive. Acknowledge God as your Father, worship Him in His beauty and majesty, enter into His presence without shame, He is your Father in heaven and He gladly hears and answers your prayer.
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OUR Father – He did not say MY Father, which means we are a family of believers and in every family each member is at a different level of understanding, of what it means to be family.
We all need Gods love, the fruit of the Holy Spirit and much more to help our family of believers to walk out their journey as a follower of Jesus. Sometimes in families a member will be kicking and screaming like a pig being pulled backwards through a barbed wire fence and will need someone in the family to help encourage them and point the way. Family, gotta love it!!!