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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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"PRAYER, IT IS POWERFUL AND IT WORKS" BY DAVID MCMILLEN
PRAYER, IT IS POWERFUL AND IT WORKS
DO YOU FIND IT HARD TO PRAY OUT LOUD IN CHURCH OR AT YOUR BIBLE STUDY CLASS? I DO. I WILL PRAY FOR YOU AND WITH YOU FOR YOUR HEALING OR ANY OTHER THING YOU NEED PRAYER FOR BUT I DON'T LIKE TO PRAY OUT LOUD IN A LARGE GROUP. PRAYER, TO ME, IS PERSONAL BETWEEN ME AND GOD. I WENT SO FAR AS WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO BE CALLED ON TO PRAY, I WOULD MEMORIZE A PRAYER TO SAY. THAT WAS NOT PRAYING, THAT WAS SHOWING OFF TO THE PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE THEM THINK I WAS RELIGIOUS. BOY, DID I HAVE TO ASK FORGIVENESS FOR THAT.
I HAVE HEARD PEOPLE IN CHURCH PRAY SOME BEAUTIFUL PRAYERS AND I AM NOT SAYING THEY WERE LIKE ME, JUST SHOWING OFF. I HOPE THEY WERE SINCERE. AND, THERE WERE SOME THAT I THOUGHT WOULD NEVER STOP PRAYING. I HOPE THESE PEOPLE WERE ALSO SINCERE BUT IF THEY WERE NOT, JESUS HAD SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THEM IN MATTHEW 6:7-8 WHEN HE SAYS "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." HE GOES ON TO GIVE US AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO PRAY. WE CALL IT "THE LORD'S PRAYER" BUT IT WAS JUST TO SHOW US HOW TO PRAY. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO READ THE REAL LORD'S PRAY, READ JOHN 17 WHICH I WILL PRINT BELOW. I KNOW I HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE BUT FOR THOSE WHO DID NOT READ IT, YOU SHOULD.
1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. 6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
NOTICE HERE HE STARTS PRAYING FOR YOU AND ME. HE WAS PRAYING FOR HIS DISCIPLES BEFORE BUT NOW HE SAYS HE IS NOT PRAYING FOR THEM ALONE. WE DO BELIEVE ON JESUS BECAUSE OF THEIR WORD IF WE ARE READING THE BIBLE. LET'S CONTINUE WITH JOHN 17.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
I BELIEVE THIS IS THE "REAL" LORD'S PRAYER. I HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED IT.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
