Lots of people have asked me for the various rituals i have employed in my family over the years. So, i'm going to use Fridays (for a while and also while reserving the right to comment about something else anytime i want) to post some of the things i have created to Bless, instruct, remind, or otherwise impact my family. For today's post, i am going to post The Model Prayer.
Many years ago, Abba taught me how to spend time with Him in the mornings as LORD Y’shua did. The Model Prayer was a part of that training. It is how we begin our time together. Abba had me translate it myself, and i worked on it for days learning to understand each part in its linguistic, cultural, spiritual, historical, and other various contexts. Maybe no study has ever enriched my Life as much. Now, it is not rote to me – it is ever fresh each time i pray it, because i need each thing every second of my ChristLife. It leads us into the back-and-forth, conversational dialogue that Abba desires to have with His sons. For me, it has been an indispensable Blessing and an essential part of my dependence. i hope it Blesses You….
A Daily Prayer From LORD Y'shua the Messiah:
Holy Father YHWH (Blessed Be Your Holy Name)...
Please be merciful to us…
Please be merciful to us…
Our Father Who art in Heaven – Holy & Sacred be Your Name
Your Kingdom come – Your Will be done
On earth as it is in Heaven, and
in each of us – Your many sons – as in Your son, Y'shua
Abba, please continue to give all of us & each of us
Today & every day
The daily bread You ordain us to have...
LORD Most High, please continue to forgive us of
our trespasses against You, as
we continue to forgive others of their trespasses against us, and
our trespasses against You, as
we continue to forgive others of their trespasses against us, and
Please cancel our debts – forgiving what we owe to You, as
we cancel the debts of others – forgiving what they owe to us...
we cancel the debts of others – forgiving what they owe to us...
And, Father of Lights, please don’t lead us into
temptation or attacks or times of severe trials, but
Deliver us from all evil – and from the
Deliver us from all evil – and from the
authority, power, vision, or influence of any evil one...
For the Kingdom & the Power & the Glory...
Holy Father God, those things are Yours & Yours alone, and
They belong to You – and only to You – Forever & Ever
Selah & Amen
Blessings to each and all of You from the LORD Most High today....
I like this version. I think it personalizes this prayer as it should. God is relational in all He does, we miss that so often. Prayer isn't principles, it's talking with the creator of the universe. So thankful Jesus died, suffered, and was ressurected to enable me to talk personally to the God who created everything.
ReplyDeleteGonna try and keep up a little better with the blog. I was kinda wiped out yesterday so didn't make it by.
Berry, it's OK (re You keeping up with the Blog) - You've had a lot of more important stuff going on. i'm glad You dropped by at all...
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot to unpack here for people who want to either let Abba do that for them personally or ask me why He taught it to me this way, but i know that it has revolutionized the way i think about "prayer." i don't even think of time i spend with Abba anymore as "prayer," even though i know most people would. Y'shua spent every morning with Abba, and i am convinced from what Abba has told me that their morning time together every day was the bedrock of so much of Y'shua's ministry: His sense of identity, calling, & direction, His strength, His sustenance, His awareness, preparation, & information, His grasp on both the larger picture and the minutia of details, His shepherding of the disciples & apostles, His reservoir of the Spirit and His fruits, etc. If people (at eLife and elsewhere) could just understand that prayer is not just us making our requests known or us listening to Abba but rather the altering of humanity by the infusion of Divinity, then i think people's ideas about prayer would be forever changed...