by Rob Hurtgen


In thinking about prayer and in examining scriptures on prayer, there is one conclusion that we must come back to again and again. Prayer is about God.

Prayer is God changing His children. Prayer is experiencing His presence. Prayer is God intervening in our lives. Prayer is God hearing and providing for our needs. Prayer is about God.

Luke records the words of Jesus that we are to ask, seek and knock at the door of heaven, waiting for God to respond. God is portrayed as a generous, loving father who delights in responding to His children by giving them what they need. He is not evil, looking for ways to deceive them. When we ask for an egg we are not given a scorpion instead nor are we given a stone when pleading to be nourished with bread. The Lord is concerned with our provision not in poisoning his children.

Therein lays the command and the reward. Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you. God does not respond due to any magical formula of prayer or any work performed to earn a response from Him. He responds because He is God. He responds because of His nature. He is good. He is compassionate. He is generous. He is the protector and provider. He knows what each of His children need and He will not provide that which will harm them. He will only give that which satisfies.

Prayer presents us with the very nature of God. We pray because of who He is. We come to Him because we have faith that He will intervene. We have faith that He will provide. We have faith that He will give us the best, even when the best is silence.

Quote:In thinking about prayer and in examining scriptures on prayer, there is one conclusion that we must come back to again and again. Prayer is about God.

Prayer is God changing His children. Prayer is experiencing His presence. Prayer is God intervening in our lives. Prayer is God hearing and providing for our needs. Prayer is about God.

Luke records the words of Jesus that we are to ask, seek and knock at the door of heaven, waiting for God to respond. God is portrayed as a generous, loving father who delights in responding to His children by giving them what they need. He is not evil, looking for ways to deceive them. When we ask for an egg we are not given a scorpion instead nor are we given a stone when pleading to be nourished with bread. The Lord is concerned with our provision not in poisoning his children.

Therein lays the command and the reward. Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you. God does not respond due to any magical formula of prayer or any work performed to earn a response from Him. He responds because He is God. He responds because of His nature. He is good. He is compassionate. He is generous. He is the protector and provider. He knows what each of His children need and He will not provide that which will harm them. He will only give that which satisfies.

Prayer presents us with the very nature of God. We pray because of who He is. We come to Him because we have faith that He will intervene. We have faith that He will provide. We have faith that He will give us the best, even when the best is silence.

The most important thing to know about prayer is that it should never come from the will of man. Man doesn't know what his needs are or even who to pray to so his prayers end up being noise in the wind.

About a month before I entered the Kingdom, God had me read the scriptures where Jesus was teaching about the Lord's Prayer. He wanted me to pray this prayer for the forgiveness of others. Then he gave me understanding that people pray for things they don't need and that's why their prayers go unanswered.

After that, he gave me the understanding that what they need is the Holy Spirit and this is what he wanted me to pray for with the Lord's Prayer. One month later, God came into my face to ask me for my life and soon, his Holy Spirit was filling me with understanding of all things.

For 29 years before I entered the Kingdom, when God wanted me to pray, he gave me commands in the form of desires to pray for something. He always gave me understanding of what to pray for and after I prayed, I received what I was praying for. It didn't take me long to figure out that God runs the show at all times and we don't have any input except when he wants us to do something.

So those of you trying to do things your way and praying fervently for your will, you're wasting your time. All you're doing is looking religious and Jesus had some words with his disciples about this. He told them to go pray in secret instead of out in the public putting on a show for others to see how righteous they are. Jesus knew these people didn't know how to pray in God's will, let alone know who God is.

First of all, you need to know who God is so listen to the gospel until God reveals himself to you. This is when you have faith in God and when he starts working in your life by giving you commands to obey. During this time he is making you confess your sins and repent of them so he can forgive you. He will have you pray once in a while for healings, miracles and other things to test your faith and build trust in him.

Eventually, when it's close to the Kingdom, he will have you pray for specific things like when he had me pray the Lord's Prayer and for the Holy Spirit. All you have to do is obey his commands and nothing else. You don't have to be religious and do all kinds of praying everywhere for people to see you. You don't have to pray at all until he commands you to. Then you know you're doing his will instead of yours.

Time to seek worship and go before God is now. True worshipers in truth and spirit shoud join the fasting month to seek God's Heart.

(03-14-2011 04:14 AM)Joe Wrote:  Time to seek worship and go before God is now. True worshipers in truth and spirit shoud join the fasting month to seek God's Heart.

Sinless saints don't have to do anything for God except preach the gospel. Sinners love to please themselves with all those religious ideas like the Jewish Pharisees and Babylonians did.