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On Our Knees: Praying For God’s Resources (Eph. 1:15-23) Jan. 3, 2010

On the day after Christmas Highland lost a wonderful saint named Mike Davidson.  I was privileged to be with his family and friends in his home as Mike breathed his last.  Just before Christmas we lost another godly person: Dorothy Jean Gooch.  I was honored to be part of the memorial service in which we celebrated her life.  These two transitions, happening close together, and towards the end of the year, have caused me to reflect much on life.  I’ve been thinking a lot about my past, my present, and my future.

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Learning to Pray His Way #2

fatherIn Luke 11 we find Jesus’ followers intrigued by Jesus’ prayer life: 1Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”(Lk. 11:1 ESV). 

 Joachim Jeremias (“The Prayers of Jesus”) writes that in the Judaism of Jesus’ time it was common for individual religious groups to have their own customs and practices regarding prayer (63).  We know that the Pharisees and the Essenes had prayer practices unique to their groups.  It appears from the text above that John’s disciples did as well.  Thus, here, the disciples ask Jesus to give them their unique prayer.  They want a prayer that will set them apart from the other religious groups.  They literally want a “Jesus-Prayer.”

But what was the “Jesus-Prayer”?  What prayer would distinguish Christ-ians from all others?  What would it mean to pray in a distinctly Christ-like way?

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