~~WISDOM PRAYER~

--Jesus taught his disciples how to pray in (Matthew 6:9-13/ NASB). We can use that same prayer if we need help getting started, or when we simply do not know what to pray. Our prayers are not answered according to how many words we say, rather meaning what we say. God always looks on the heart.

~"Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.

"Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory
forever and ever. Amen" --
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---"When you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words."
~~(Matthew 6:7-8)

~~~Powerful praying begins with a right relationship with God. In James 5:16, James said the effective prayer of a righteous person can accomplish much. What does it mean to be righteous? Righteous means being in a right relationship with God. Before we are saved, we are guilty before God, deserving hell, but the moment we trust in Jesus for our salvation, in the great courtroom of heaven God declares us not guilty. Our standing before God has changed from sinners deserving hell to believers deserving heaven, and it’s all because of what Christ does for us. That’s judicial righteousness. It is a permanent, irrevocable standing we have before God. When we become a Christian, that judicial righteousness not only changes our standing with God, but it also changes our relationship with God. No longer are we strangers and enemies of God, but we become children of God.

When God declares us not guilty by our faith in Christ, we become a part of God’s forever family, and it changes God’s attitude toward us, especially when it comes to prayer. In Galatians 4:6-7, Paul explained it this way: “Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’” That word “abba” is Aramaic for “daddy.” The moment we become a Christian, God is no longer a distant deity; He’s our daddy, our papa. That gives us confidence in coming to God. Does that mean God is going to answer every prayer request we have? No. But if we are judicially righteous, we have the confidence that when we pray, God hears us and will answer according to His will.
Christians have a personal relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ.
John said it this way in 1 John 5:14: “This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.”
--PTV/RJ~
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