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1 | Our Father | Matt 6:9 | Lionstrong | 8912 | ||
Meditations on the Lord's Prayer "Our Father" The first thing I'm reminded of when I come to God is our relationship. I'm a creature, but I don't come to Him as that. I'm a man, a fallen one, but I don't come to him as that. Jesus reminds me that on the basis of his shed blood for me I come to his Father as my own. I come as a son to his own father. Before anything else, the relationship is first. This is how the Lord himself teaches us how to come to our Almighty Creator God in prayer,... as family, as belonging to the household, with the expectancy of being heard, because we belong. The Father is our Father who loves us and as a father is pleased to hear us. Not only am I reminded by this the Lord's instruction on prayer that I come to God the Father as my own father, but that I am received into his presence as his own son. "...but as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God." "No one comes to the Father but through Me." As a son; this truth is the truth, the attitude if you will, that I have in mind as I think and pray about the petitions in this prayer. The only basis or means by which anyone comes to the Father is the person and work of Christ. |
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2 | Our Father | Matt 6:9 | Makarios | 8932 | ||
"The Notion of Divine Control" "How much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?" MATTHEW 7:11 "Jesus is laying down rules of conduct for those who have His Spirit. By the simple argument of these verses He urges us to keep our minds filled with the notion of God's control behind everything, which means that the disciple must maintain an attitude of perfect trust and an eagerness to ask and to seek. Notion your mind with the idea that God is there. If once the mind is notioned along that line, then when you are in difficulties it is as easy as breathing to remember- Why, my Father knows all about it! It is not an effort, it comes naturally when perplexities press. Before, you used to go to this person and that, but now the notion of the Divine control is forming so powerfully in you that you go to God about it. Jesus is laying down the rules of conduct for those who have His Spirit, and it works on this principle- God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, why should I worry? There are times, says Jesus, when God cannot lift the darkness from you, but trust Him. God will appear like an unkind friend, but He is not; He will appear like an unnatural Father, but He is not; He will appear like an unjust judge, but He is not. Keep the notion of the mind of God behind all things strong and growing. Nothing happens in any particular unless God's will is behind it, therefore you can rest in perfect confidence in Him. Prayer is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural. "Ask, and it shall be given you." -Taken from July 16th of the devotional "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers Lionstrong: I thought that this reading was a good supplement to your thoughts! :) Blessings, Nolan |
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