My beliefs of Prayer I believe that Prayer is God's way of creating a relationship with us personally and as a group and to maintain that relationship while "conditioning our Soul. A very big word in the statement above is "maintain". Maintain - uphold, preserve, keep, keep up, continue, sustain, retain, (Antonym) (opposite) destroy. As Jesus taught us to Pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Amen (meaning "May it be so") The seven petitions of the prayer are modeled on the Psalms. The first three
petitions are concerned with the glorification of God, and the last four are
requests for divine assistance to humankind. The prayer reflects a community
based on an eschatological hope, that is, a community praying for the completion
of God's final plan. The petitions concerning forgiveness, temptation, and
deliverance from evil are, in fact, best understood in relation to the end
times. The prayer is actually a synthesis of the Christian faith; its balanced
structure makes it an expression of the biblical hierarchy of values: first the
things of God, then human concerns. PS 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.PS 1:3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water which yields its fruit in seasonand whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
I hope that some of this information will help in your life.
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