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1 | Purpose of Prayer? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 121165 | ||
What does the Bible say about the purpose of prayer? --Hank | ||||||
2 | Purpose of Prayer? | Bible general Archive 2 | tgc | 121441 | ||
HI Hank, I belivethe answere to your question can be found in Matthew 6:9-13. As you most likely know this is what is referred to as the Lord's Prayer. I belive there are all the principles and purposes of prayer revealed here. Fist of all we acknowledge who we are praying to andthe fact we only want His will not nessacarily our own. Next we look foward to His coming while asking to make difference for Him in our world today. So first we worship. Next we bring our request and acknowlege our dependency on Him. Then we ask for forgiveness and the strengh to forgive. Next divine protection Then we acknowledge from where our Hope comes and the Majasty of God and HIs kingdom. Also we see in the Psalms that David basically carried on conversations with God so should we rememebering that prayer is a two way conversation not just us bombarding God. But the bottom line to all of this is that it is the way we build our relationship with God. If we do not have communication with someone how can there be any relationship. For example if I neber carry on a conversation with my son how will I know him and he know me. Prayers main purposes are to build a relationship between us and God and to teach us to trust Him. Your Friend in Christ tgc |
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3 | Purpose of Prayer? | Bible general Archive 2 | MissJW | 121451 | ||
Hi tgc, I believe you answered well. Remember the apostle Paul encourages Christians to keep up their fight of faith ‘while with every form of prayer they carry on prayer on every occasion in spirit.’ (Eph. 6:18) Every prayer, given either audibly or silently, has a point or purpose. Thus ther are various forms of prayer, for example, “intercessions,” in which the Christian prays in behalf of others, “offerings of thanks,” of asking blessings, prayers of “supplication” with regard to certain needs or problems. You mention the Lord's prayer. First we notice this is a model prayer to follow but not one to say repeatedly. We also notice that Jesus prays to the Father. That sounds reasonable to me that we would pray to our God who is Jesus' Father. Then what does Jesus pray for first of anything he could have prayed for? That his "name be sanctified, or made holy. Certainly then Jesus recognized the importance of God's name and was thus telling us the same. Do you believe that? Of course, God's name is Jehovah and our older Bible translations showed us in Ps 83:18. Just before his death Jesus prayed: “I have made your name manifest to the men you gave me out of the world . . . watch over them on account of your own name which you have given me . . . And I have made your name known to them and will make it known.”—John 17:6, 11, 26. We are not to believe that when Jesus said, “I have made your name known” or “manifest,” he referred to only the pronunciation of the divine name. His listeners were Jews who, reportedly with the exception of the high priest, did not know the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton, the four Hebrew letters making up the name. Then, how did Jesus, by more than pronouncing the name correctly, ‘make God’s name known’ to the apostles? Note the answer given by one noted Bible commentator: “The word name [in John 17] includes the attributes, or character of God. Jesus had made known his character, his law, his will, his plan of mercy. Or in other words, he had revealed God to them. The word name is often used to designate the person.”—Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Gospels by Albert Barnes (1846). So, as Jesus ‘explained the Father’ by his own entire perfect life course on earth, he was really ‘making God’s name known.’ He demonstrated that he spoke with God’s full backing and authority. Jesus could therefore say: “He that has seen me has seen the Father also.” Certainly Jesus wasn't the Father but he was the Son of God so God’s “name” thus took on greater meaning to his early followers. Accordingly, an appreciation of it and the Personality that it stood for should be reflected in every aspect of our lives as Christians. MissJW |
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4 | Miss JW, Who Is Jesus? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 121455 | ||
MissJW [Jehovah's Witness]: What do you consider the proper translation of John 1:1? Who is Jesus -- is He God or a god? Do you confess to the full deity of Christ? Is He fully a member of the Trinity -- or do you deny the biblical doctrine of the Trinity? --Hank | ||||||
5 | Miss JW, Who Is Jesus? | Bible general Archive 2 | MissJW | 122189 | ||
Hello Hank, I noticed you had several questions for me and are marked as unanswered. I notice too that probably very few will read this post since it has now become "restricted". I notice that this happens when Biblical "truths" are presented here on this forum but disliked. Other Bible study forums don't do that you know. Anyway, you already know the answers to the questions you ask of me, thus elucidating would be of no avail. So I wonder why you ask? Do you really desire a scholarly exegesis of John 1:1 or just the run of the mill eisegesis? Hank, I believe the Bible. I know what the Bible says. I know what history and tradition of man tells us. And I know that poor hermeneutical practice is one thing but rejection of simple blatant logic is another. I know too that Jesus taught me to love my enemies. I totally admire people that can do that don't you? They are special people, I asure you, not only to me but especially to our omniscient and omnipotent Creator and to his Son our beloved Lord and Savior. Miss JW |
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