PRAYER: WORSHIP

“This, then, is how you should pray:
Our Father which art in heaven . . .”
Matthew 6:9

Prayer is worship based.  Jesus taught his disciples to begin speaking to God by

personally addressing the Father in worship and humbly recognizing who we

are and who God is.  If we have become God’s child by asking Jesus to be

our Lord and Savior, we are His people and He is God Almighty who is in

heaven and who has given us the privilege of approaching him as a child

approaches his loving father.  

We have the same privilege of an intimate relationship of sonship that Jesus

Christ has so all believers can call God by the same name “Our Father.”

Addressing God as “Our Father” with reverence and awe in worship

and submission, acknowledges Him as the source of our life and our

dependence on Him for everything.  He is intimately involved in our lives,

yet He is also far above.

Joyce