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Our Father
“When you pray, say:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.”
The first line of the Lord's prayer is, ‘Our Father’. I believe this is a very significant and powerful part of the prayer. This is because this part of the prayer informs us of the position we should assume, every time we come before the Father in prayer.
Your position in prayer is not from the stance of an outsider. If you are to address God as Father, it means that He acknowledges you as His child. You are a son/daughter of God.
Even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.
Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.
Ephesians 1:3-5
When you placed your confidence and complete trust in Jesus, you were adopted by God. You have full access to God's resources and identity. There’s nothing you could have done to earn this position—it has been freely given to you by God, through faith in Jesus.
When you approach God the Father with assurance in that truth, that you are His child, it automatically shifts the dynamics of your prayers. There is less fear and more freedom.
About this Plan
Are you struggling to connect with God? Are you new to the concept of relationship with God? This devotional is taken from Susan Deborahs book 'Connecting With God'. It dispels many of the common myths about prayer and breaks down the keys to knowing God. Susan Deborahs provides an accessible set of guidelines that almost anyone can understand and begin to implement straight away.
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