15/02/2020
Good morning everyone today we are going to talk about prayer.
What is Prayer?
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, prayer is an address to God in word or thought. Prayer means talking to God in the form of giving Him praise, thanks, expressing one’s needs or desires. However, I define prayer as the “Consciousness tune-up of the inner self”, toward the throne of the presence of the Almighty God.
What I mean is that, when we pray, we tend to elevate our consciousness towards a more lofty existence than the one we are already in. When we pray, we are actually bringing ourselves closer to a communion with the divine; and when we have a communion with our creator, when we in a meeting with our maker, we have every opportunity to tender our request.
We talk to God through prayers while He talks to us through the scriptures.
There is no distinction to a class of people for whom prayer is made for. Everyone can pray depending on one’s understanding of actually what prayer is and what one needs.
The challenging vicissitudes of life cannot come to an end as long as this earth endures {Genesis 8:22}
The essence of prayer is to draw us closer to our creator and at the same time we can use the opportunity to entreat our creator to ease off our problems and grant us our heart desires.
It is written in the scriptures, thus: “A prayer of Moses the man of God” {Psalm 90:1}. Moses of the bible, the son of Amram and the greatest prophet of all, understood the efficacy of prayer, and he prayed. The entire Bible is one long story of the prayers of God’s people and how he answered them and is still answering them today.
Understanding Prayer
In the book of Genesis, it is stated “Jacob in his dream saw ladder plunged from the earth reaching the heaven. Angels were ascending and descending from it to earth. {Genesis 28:12}. It means that man’s pure thought (meditative prayer} and pure verbal statement (invocative prayer} to God, ascends through the gate (ladder) of prayer plunged from earth to heaven.
Prayer then can be said to be the request of whatever one needs with supplications to the almighty God; who in turn supplies it to him from the throne (store house) through the same ladder of request.
Service Of The Heart
The prime aim of prayer is to achieve the highest degree of closeness and unification with our creator. It is also the expression of one’s total reliance on God thus coming closer and closer to him. It is the service of the heart (Deut 11:13). When trouble and calamity befall a person, he has only one perfect option – to turn to his creator (God). If one can understand that his trouble is a message from God, if one will understand that, sometimes God allows troubles to befall a man to draw his attention towards Him, he will immediately respond and seek closeness and unity with his primary source of his existence which is God Himself. When God allows certain troubles to befall us, He is reminding us the need to repent and return to Him. (Psalm 77; 79; 51 and 130)
It is obvious that to achieve closeness to God while praying, one should not be preoccupied with his/her daily problems. According to the great thinkers in matters of prayer; “when one wants to pray, he should walk a distance of two doors and only there should he pray”. This simply means that there are two steps preparation to prayer. One must move out of the road that connects him with his daily needs which impedes his concentration on his prayers. It’s only then that one can enter the roads bringing him closer to God.
We are inviting you to our Sunday to come and receive your by Apostle Kingsley. Divine Ground of Truth International venue Nyumba Yanga Primary School.
Thank you for your time have a blessed day.
