Pray the Word

Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Exposure: Read the passage about Jesus teaching His followers how to pray. Use the Lord's Prayer as a pattern to write down a prayer that has some of those same ideas in it.

Father, Let your name be Blessed
Let your son come down upon us.
Give me today the food I need for my body and my soul.
Let the wrongs I do be forgiven, 
so that I can forgive all the wrong done to me.
Lead around past temptations. 

Exploration: What parts of Jesus' prayer pattern do you often leave out of the times you pray? How was writing down your prayer different from just saying it?

I leave out the coming of Jesus. I'm not sure that I want Him to come yet, there is to much to do, to many that isn't saved yet. It felt more real, you had to thing over each line. The meaning behind it and why you pray those words.

Expression: Read your prayer out loud. Ask someone you trust to pray along with you.

Experience: Discuss with friends or family or about a time in your life where God answered an important prayer.

God answered my prayer of marriage. I wasn't sure the right thing to do was to accept, even though I'd already said yes. My husband wasn't a believer back then, and in most cases the beliver becomes the unbeliever when married to one. So I didn't want that to be me. But years before my husband, the nonebeliver, prayed that I would be his. I didn't know this untill we'd been married for some years. And in my case I felt that I could marry him, and now he is a beliver with me!!!

The Word

John 1

Exposure: Read the first chapter of the Apostle John's account of Jesus' life. If you made an Advent wreath spend some time just reflecting and looking at the candlelight.

Exploration: This chapter is known for being written in almost a mystical style yet it also tells the narrative of how God prepared the world for the arrival of His Word. What was your favorite part about the chapter?

5 And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not

I think that is one of my favorite parts, but in this chapter there is so many things. I will say that my favorite part of it isn't one verse, but the fact that God was the word, and he spoke and made everything, including the light that would save us all once and for all!!!
 

Expression: What is significant about understanding that Jesus is The Word and that He has been God since the beginning?

That Jesus knows everything, He and God are the same. The reason Jesus only can do as much as God wants Him to do, is that Jesus can't do anything that God can't. They are one!!

Experience: "Follow me" is a statement you find in John 1. What was it like when Jesus asked you to follow Him?

I followed for afar in the beginning. Not sure if I wanted to be in the midst. But to be in His midst, doesn't mean that I have to be in people's midst. That's the thing I thought, and having realized this makes things easier.


Till next time, 
God Bless