Significance of Prayer
Why should we pray?
We
are caught up in a world, which believes completely different from the Word of
God, and many people are beginning to wonder if they really need to pray! Even
Christians struggle in prayer life even when we know we ought to pray. It is
increasingly important that every believer should pray and let us look at some
of the reasons below why we should pray.
Prayer
is a beautiful form of communication between man and God and it is very
important that mankind need to establish this relationship with God. Prayer is
a form of expressing one’s heart, mind, emotions, feelings, will, desires and
even the inadequacies to God. God has
communicated through His Word and He gives us His assurance and answers and
reveals His supremacy to the believing Christians. I would say that prayer is
building friendship with God, and it is a way of engaging with God who loves us
and wants to share time with us.
Though this
is the most important exercise of piety, yet in forming our prayers, and
regulating our wishes, all our senses fail us. No man will pray aright, unless
his lips and heart shall be directed by the Heavenly Master1. –John Calvin
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Commentary
by John Calvin
Lords Prayer Matt 6:9
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“Ask, and it
shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto
you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to
him that knocketh it shall be opened”; Matt: 7:7-8. “Ye
lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight
and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not”; Jam: 4:2. Prayer is
a way of expressing our desires to God, and the Word of God explicitly states
that we ought to ask if we want to receive.
A heavenly
pattern for our earthly life, OUR Father's will shall certainly be done, for
the Lord "doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the
inhabitants of the earth." Let us adoringly consent that it shall be so,
desiring no alteration therein2. - Charles Spurgeon
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“For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That
he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened
with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts
by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be
able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth,
and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye
might be filled with all the fulness of God”; Ephe: 3:14-19. As Apostle Paul
writes, when we begin to communicate with the Living God, we begin to
understand His Word, and we will receive boldness to face life because we begin
to understand His love. The love supremely showed on the cross for humanity
through the death of His Son.
“But
ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the
Holy Ghost”; Jude: 20. Through prayer our faith is build up in the knowledge of
God’s Son, and Jesus gave the finest example about prayer to His disciples by
teaching them the Lord’s Prayer. Prayer is one of the vehicle through the
courage and confidence in God is build up and we can grow spiritually mature.
Prayer and especially the body of believers are strengthened when we pray
together.
“Praying always
with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all
perseverance and supplication for all saints”; Eph 6:18. Believers can overcome
the forces of darkness through prayer, because we believe that Satan is
defeated on the cross. Apostle Paul is talking about the weapons of our warfare
which in the Book of Ephesians and encouraging believers to stand against the
wiles of the devil through prayer.
Prayer is an
invitation to God to act in this dark world. “And God said, Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man
in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created
he them”; Gen 1:26-27. The dominion God
has given to Adam was sold to Satan; “In whom the god
of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light
of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto
them”; 2 Cor:4:4. We understand from the above Word of God that Satan has the
legal right in this world and is the god of this age and has blinded the minds
of many. Without prayer and petitioning, God cannot move the lease which was
given to the evil forces by Adam, and we pray and ask God to intervene in these
situations.
Especially in petitioning we are asking God to
protect us, guide us, and bless us. We pray for strength, courage, comfort, for
wisdom and above all for peace which passeth all understanding which the world
cannot give. But seek ye first the kingdom of
God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you; Matt
6:33.
Thus therefore pray ye -
He who best knew what we ought to pray for, and how we ought to pray, what
matter of desire, what manner of address would most please himself, would best
become us, has here dictated to us a most perfect and universal form of prayer,
comprehending all our real wants, expressing all our lawful desires; a complete
directory and full exercise of all our devotions3.- John Wesley
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notes:
The Lord's Prayer words. The
traditional words to the Our Father. Also versions in modern, aramaic, for
children and in latin, spanish, welsh & german
lord's prayer in old
english middle english scottish gaelic irish gaelic welsh . The Lord's Prayer (modern) Our Father
in heaven, hallowed be your name.
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