Lord, Teach Me to Pray in 28 Days by Kay Arthur

Author:Kay Arthur
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736923606
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Day 11

Our Prayers Connect Heaven and Earth

Have you ever finished your prayer time feeling like it was nothing?

Of course you have, and so have I.

It can be so frustrating! After such times my emotions have varied from a feeling of total impotence, to guilt (because of a wandering mind), to a sense of near despair. I have wondered, Father, will I ever learn to really pray—and cover everything that needs to be covered in prayer?

Surely Jesus sensed this would happen to us, for prayer is probably the most disciplined and difficult exercise in the Christian’s life. Oh, how I love this God of ours who has truly promised to supply all of our needs…even our need in prayer. How I thank Him for opening my eyes to see what Jesus was doing when He said, “Pray, then, in this way” (Matthew 6:9).

It has been so exciting to realize that the Lord’s Prayer is an index prayer, a collection of brief sentences, each suggesting a subject of prayer. Now we know how to pray—how to “cover all the bases.” All we have to do is recite one sentence of this prayer at a time, realize what topic or point it covers, and then simply talk to the Father about anything that falls under that particular part of the index. When we finish the first point, we move on to the second.

To go through the entire collection of index sentences is to cover the whole expanse of prayer. Or as G. Campbell Morgan, the prince of expositors, said,

To pray that prayer intelligently is to have nothing else to pray for. It may be broken up, each petition may be taken separately and expressed in other ways, but in itself, it is exclusive and exhaustive.

My heart brims over with joy and praise as I think of these things. Oh, Father, thank You, thank You, thank You for this instruction from Your Son!

Do you see, Beloved? Memorize the Lord’s Prayer, and no one can take from you God’s way to pray. You will have it for the rest of your life. From the youngest babe in Christ to the most mature saint, here is the way you can pray and know that your prayers are pleasing to God. And it’s a form of prayer that will expand as you deepen in your knowledge of and walk with Him.

When you take time to study the Lord’s Prayer carefully, you will begin to pick up on a change of direction in the pattern of prayer. Read Matthew 6:9-13 to see if you can discover this change for yourself.

Mark the references to God, including “Your,” in one color or way. Highlight the references to “us” and “we” in a different color.

9 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name.

10 ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread.

12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

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