“OUR”
When we Pray as Jesus teaches His disciple To Pray, what is meant by the “OUR” in Our Father. . . ?
Does Jesus mean that we are a part of His connection to Our Father? Do we participate in His family value? What right do we have to call God “Our Father”? Who gives us that right? Is here an offer to be all Jesus offers us in access to His realm? Does knowing and “BE”liveing Jesus give us the right to “BE” called the Sons-of-God? “I AM” not alone if there are others like me, trusting Him for access to Our Father in His Heavenly realm.
Does addressing “Our Father who art in Heaven” also include others first who are trusting in Christ to bring them to this place of innersession called Prayer? So, the “OUR” of “OUR” Father is Jesus and us. The We who “BE”lieve. No I,me,mine but Our, we, us.
When I Pray “OUR”, is that all inclusive to the names on our prayer lists understood? Our family, friends, neighbors, the town where we live, our State and Nation. “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.” Even those in need from around the world that are known only by Him as He intercedes for us.
To Pray “OUR” Father makes sense!
October 26, 2006 at 2:06 pm |
When Jesus taught us To Pray, to say “OUR” Father, did He mean that we too are included into that same relationship He has with “OUR” Father because of our relationship to Him? Does Jesus make the “OUR” ours? How can we know for certain we are included when He said I AM To Pray to say, “OUR” Father? Is the faith that Jesus gives, to call on Him who has made us to know Him enough alone? Or is it His I AM AGE conformed in us the identity to know I AM His and He is mine? Does His Holy Spirit mark us out as belonging to “OUR” Father?
When Mum was in the hospital having our younger son, I took the three older ones along with their friends on the Bobalo boat to the Island. They all would line up close together to get their tickets for the rides with a hand outstretched, as I pealed off the tickets for each of them. I included our son’s playmates as being one of our own family. I thought how “Our Father” includes us too in His gift of handing us a ticket to His Heaven by “BE”ing close to His Son.
October 26, 2006 at 2:26 pm |
Prayer as evangelism “OUR” “Not willing that any should perish, but all come to repentance.” (II Pet.3:9)
“OUR” What?
Who is the “OUR”?
When is the “OUR” Ours?
Where is the “OUR”?
Why “OUR” anyhow?
How is the “OUR” possible?
THIMK (misspelled to make you stop and think – Selah!)
We do not go unnoticed by the God who made the universe; we are special to Him, made in His Image. In fact, the Word that made the Heavens and “OUR” world also made us. We are significant to Him. To know, to think, to feel His presence in us is not arrogance, it is the truth. His Word says – Christ is “in me” and “I AM in Him.”
I remember as a child I would hear my mother say in describing members of our family as our Donald or our Doris, etc. I picked up on that and when talking about a family member I too would often say our Donald or whatever. Why? Was I conditioned by my mom to say “OUR” that would include me in our family relationship?
Later on a playmate called me on what I was saying and without thinking about it, I was embarrassed and discontinued using the term, “OUR”, when talking about my brothers and sisters. But now, when talking to “OUR” Father God, I always include them all in praying to “OUR” Father, because of His all inclusive inheritance.
Jesus’ prayer includes “US” in praying as He taught us To Pray to say “OUR” Father. The all inclusive term WE that “shall believe” from John 17.
October 27, 2006 at 9:33 pm |
Lord, in “OUR” journey of prayer, To Pray as You as US To Pray on behalf of those listed here in “OUR” daily prayer journal, we first recognize the WE are Yours and that You are “OUR” Father. In our Journal we have a string of names the get longer as the years go by. It is not the names (places or events) that we visualize to bring to Your attention this day and at this hour , but the face of who You are in US.
Listed here in Your Journal is “OUR” spouse, family, friends and neighbors. We cry out to You in naming OUR Authority in our county, State and Nation. As the list lengthens we find it easier to picture them in Your presence, face to face, belonging to You, as we point out individuals in our prayer request to You on their behalf. You already know their need before we ask.
We ask that we would be wholly Holy, in our lives as we worship and adore You. Please rule and reign in us to do Your will, ever present within us. Give us today what is necessary for Your Word in us to “BE” all that You intend it to “BE”, “OUR” Father. For-give us of hardly noticing when we do it wrong. It is You we want right in us. We take notice of our sin and thank you for forgiving us and cleansing us from all from all un-right-in-us. Lead us far from what would separate us from You. May we not have difficulty in living the life of Your Son, our Savior, all over again in these bodies by delivering us from the evil one.
Yours is the Kingdom, the power and the glory forever. Amen!
October 27, 2006 at 9:36 pm |
“OUR”
As we consider those whom You have called; the list in our minds eye: Our family, friends, neighbors; our town, county, State and Nation. The whole wide world.
“I exhort, that first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thinks, be made for all men; for kings, and all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty.” (I Tim.2:1,2)
If I were ambassador to these nations –
Or it’s President –
Or it’s King –
Or it’s Priest –
How faithful would I be in representing them?
Could they count on me to speak in their behalf?
“We are Christ’s ambassadors.” (II Cor.5:20)
O God You have made us to be Kings and Priests. You have given us these Nations as an inheritance. We represent Your Holy Nations to them, and we represent them to You. Today, I AM faithful to that duty of praying in their behalf.
Ambassadors – “OUR” Father, in this day and at this hour; a representative of Your Kingdom.
“Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.” (Ps.2:8)
Christ said: “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the Nations.” (Mk/11:17)
Jesus said: “I must be about my Father’s house.” (Business)
I can say that too!
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