Saturday, December 3, 2011

How to pray


 It's time to climb your own ladder



Prayer is only the way that we can speak, communicate, and have communion with God that touch his heart.  In the Jewish tradition, the ladder in Jacob’s dream (Genesis 28:9-15) is a symbol of prayer.  God shows Jacob that just as the ladder “reached from the earth up to heaven,” prayer connects the earth with to heaven and man to God.  When Jacob sees “the angels of God going up and down the stairway,” we notice that the angels go up with the prayer request and come down with the Lord’s answer.  They do not come down first, for prayer must be initiated in the earthly realm where man has been given authority to rule. 

Prayer is not optional, but a necessity.  It is a means of giving our freedom back to God and asking Him to take back the authority that He has given to us. 

What is the definition of Prayer?

In Greek, one of the words for “prayer”  is  προσεύχομαι (Proseuchomai: prós, "towards, exchange" and euxomai, "to wish, pray").  Therefore, prayer is an interaction with the Lord and in which we exchange our wishes for His wishes and desires, as He imparts faith to us. 

It is of utmost importance to ask according to two things:

(1)  According to His will: (His wishes, His desires). If we don’t know Him, we will never be able to ask according with His desires. For that is so important to expend time reading with Him, His Word, understanding his ways, looking for His promises and His commands. Like the Bride expends time with her fiancée to know him and learn how to love him better.
Make His thought, your thoughts. Begin to think like Him. How He likes to be worship, how He likes you to approach Him. That knowledge will empower your adoration, because any time that we remember a characteristic of his personality, we also remember what God we serve. He is Eternal, Faithful, Foreknowable, Good, Holy, Immutable, Impartial, Incomprehensible, Infinite, Jealous, Just, Long suffering, Love and Merciful God. Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient, Righteous, Self-existent, Self-sufficient, Sovereign, Transcendent, Truthful,  and  Wise.
He doesn’t need you to remember Him what kind of God He is.
It is you, who needs to tell yourself and remember how your Father and Savior is.
     

1 John 5:14-16
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of Him.”

(2)   According to our faith.  In Hebrew, the word “emunah”, from which we derive the English “faith,” means “what I will do to support God.”  This conveys a totally different understanding than in our western culture, which emphasizes our “faith in God.” So faith now is what I will do the help, to maintain, to bear God regarding what I am asking. Many times it is necessary to stretch your hand and touch the Master’s robe to have your miracle. In all the time you initiated the process. When you decide to go in  and pray to His presence believing that He is God.

Matthew 21:22
If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Mark 6:4-5

“Then Jesus told them, A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his relatives and his own family. And because of their unbelief, He couldn’t do any miracles among them except to place His hands on a few sick people and heal them.”

 Matthew 9:29 (NKJV)
“Then He touched their eyes, saying, ‘According to your faith let it be to you.’” 

Matthew 21:21-22 (NLT)
“Then Jesus told them, ‘I tell you the truth, if you have faith and don’t doubt, you can do things like this and much more. You can even say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen. You can pray for anything, and and if you have faith, you will receive it."


Now is time for you to climb your own ladder. Like a baby, go and reach the first step. God, our Father will reach His hand and help you to go up, close to Him. This is His promise He will be with you at any step of your prayer life.










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