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3 Lifting Your Name

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Y eshua’s “Avinu” אבינו Our Father) His Patterns for Prayer [3] “Hallowed be Thy name…”  the Names of God as an outline for prayer.  The Traditional Avinu Malkeinu Prayer in English (The Ark is opened.) Our Father, our King, we have sinned before You. Our Father, our King, we have no King but You. Our Father, our King, act [benevolently] with us for the sake of Your Name. In creating a strategy for prayer, I would like to state the obvious:   We pray to God, so... Who is He? It would help us to understand WHO we are praying to. Right?    It’s interesting to note, that it’s one of the first things God himself wants us to know about know.     This is true of all relationships.   We can’t relate to someone we don’t understand.  Correction:  we can relate to them in a superficial way.   There is a parashah called Va’Ereh וָאֵרָ֗א  ( Exodus 6:2-9:35) which is God saying “I appeared”  וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶל־מֹ...
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2 - AVINU - Our Father

  Y eshua’s “Avinu” אבינו (Our Father) His Patterns for Prayer “Our Father...” First, we acknowledge God as a Father. It prepares us to be a son or daughter of the good Father.  Some call this “praising” God.  This poses a problem:  most people are quite unpracticed in “praising” anything or anyone. So the phrase may have no practical meaning.   We are natural born complainers.   To succeed in prayer (and many other areas of life) we need to find the good and praise it: in others.  In God.   Let’s start now.   Fill in the blanks and pray for these things.  The items in blue are the things you do and say God, you are a father to me.  You always do what a true father would.  Thank you for caring for me, for teaching me, for never leaving me.   (Isaiah 9:6)  "For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called  Wonderful C...
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1 - Intro Patterns for Prayer

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Y eshua’s “Avinu” אבינו (Our Father) His Patterns for Prayer From Matthew 6, the Sermon on the Mount.     Yeshua had just finished the 40 days of testing in the wilderness (Matt 4).   He called the first disciples, started traveling all over Galilee and healing people, then (by popular demand) gave an open-air sermon mount, in the location of the picture below in  Matthew 5 In this remarkable message He tells us  How to be blessed in this life How to be a light in this world To keep the Law and follow the prophets (often discounted Matt 5:17-19 To ask forgiveness and be reconciled with others What is Prayer? It's simple Then this:  He gives us a simple pattern on how to pray .   Why?   Because it may not be obvious.  The roots of prayer are simple but they were muddied in complexities layered on by “religious” practice..  Today as well?   How did this simple act of one person talking to God become complicated. ...
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