Get on His Lap for He is your Father..... this was the second part of my prayer series preached last Sunday August 23. I stressed to my people that your view of God will affect how you approach Him. If you look at Him like Dorothy and her friends looked at the Wizard of Oz we will approach His throne with fear and trembling if at all. God wants us to approach with with boldness and confidence. Hebrews 4:16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Get on His lap I said to God's people, see Him as your Father. We worry so much about things like, am I praying for the right things, does God think I'm silly, oh no, I fell asleep while I was praying- hey, what better way to fall asleep? I remember my kids falling alseep in my lap and then carrying them to bed, tucking them in and the love that wells up inside just thinking of it! If I, a sinful man can feel this what must God feel as He tucks us in!
So climb up on His lap. Talk to Him, and when satan distracts I just say, God satan is distracting me, my mind is wandering, he's creating doubts, and God in His Word reminds me of His love for me and that my prayer life does not have to be perfect. In fact, when I don't even know what to pray it says in the Word that the Spirit prays for me!
Wow! That's a loving God, see Him as the Dad whose lap you can jump up on when the storms of life come your way.
More later,
In Christ,
Pastor John
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Oh yes, I've prayed the "dumb" prayers, the "goofy" prayers (and sometimes outloud while others can hear), but I am confident that God hears what is in my heart and not the simple mutterings of my lips.
I liked the analogy of God tucking me into bed, as an earthly father can do, when I fall asleep during prayer.
We have some local families that have lost young fathers to cancer, age 27 and 32, both with 2 year old daughters, and another young family with a 4 year child killed in a senseless car accident. Please pray with me for God's comfort and peace to be with them every day and His strength to help them begin new lives that don't include the presence of their loved one.
I thank God for pastors and Christian friends that uplift me every day with their love and encouragement.
Colleen, I will pray for the families who have lost loved ones. I will keep you in my prayers too.
Pastor, thanks for talking about praying. What you have told us helps a great deal. I fall asleep praying all the time and felt really guilty about it. I don’t anymore. I used to not pray out loud at all. I didn't think my prayers sounded as good as other peoples (I say pretty "goofy" prayers too. God doesn't care what they sound like, He just wants us to talk to Him. So I do. Blessings on your day!
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Wow, what a way to look at this. Being a dad I know the feeling of children falling a sleep in your arms and you watch them sleep. You look at them and I get a feeling of creation and love that is unexplainable. My brain can't even fathom the feeling God must feel for us. To give us grace through the death of his only son. That's love. I don't know about you but I now feel pretty comfortable talking and praying to a God who would do that for me.
We worship a wonderful and amazing God. I believe if you pray to him about anything, he will listen and answer your prayer if it doesn't go against his will. So if you take the I and me out of it as selfishness I think anything is possible. God can and will move mountains if you ask with total faith.
I pray and ask for Gods blessings be with you all.
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