Thursday, March 24, 2016

Teach Us To Pray, Lord

Luke 11:1 
Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.”

How did John teach his disciples to pray?  There is no record of it, but what John taught was to point others to Jesus.  So John may have taught them to pray for forgiveness in a repentant spirit and to be ready for the Messiah.  But Jesus then taught them to address God as their Father as well, and to honor and glorify Him in trust and obedience out of love.  This was not as John taught, yet it was a fulfillment of all Scripture and what John looked forward to.  So Jesus taught us how (not the exact words of 'what') to speak with God.

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