TEACH ME HOW TO PRAY.

When my son was almost two, I taught him a simple bedtime prayer.  "Dear Lord, thank you for (all family members by name), bless us all as we go to sleep and protect us till morning. In Jesus Name, AMEN". He learned how to pray that prayer in a matter of days. A couple of months go by and I realized that while praying for meals, he would change a few words in his bedtime prayer. He'd pray..."Dear Lord, Thank You for rice,.......,....and.......,bless us all as we eat rice,......,..... and.......and protect us till morning. In Jesus Name, AMEN!" That was one of the sweetest prayers I've ever heard and the beauty of it is that he put his own words in there and even though he'd pray this for breakfast and lunch, it didn't matter to me that he still had a little bedtime prayer in there.
My son was too young to ask me to teach him how to pray but I did anyway. As a Christian parent raising my son to learn and know about God, it was important for me to teach him how to pray and the sooner the better.

Jesus Disciples were probably in awe, the many times they had seen and heard Jesus pray and they wanted to know of this relationship/convos He had with his Father. Imagine this, Jesus' time: He's praying all night, most of the day, before healing, before raising the dead, before teaching,...giving all the glory to His Father, and then you, a follower, put two and two together and BAM!...behold the power of prayer and prayer being THE link. Even I would ask as they did: Lord, teach me how to pray......

Our Lord's Prayer becomes a model prayer. A very simple prayer that carries a lot of weight. It's a prayer that I say each and every Sunday in church and unconsciously with time it becomes a routine weekly chant.

At some point in life I never cared to know if this prayer was like a guideline for prayers that Jesus gave to His followers but at the back of my mind I knew. So, for the past few months, as our local Church went through the prayer series, I took it upon myself to sort of go through it and try to understand exactly how Jesus intended for us to pray using His guidelines. I want to learn how to pray......Jesus Way! I want to experience the power of prayer!

Join me as I do so for the next few weeks. I will appreciate your feedback and contribution as I share my understanding and God's guidance through "The Lord's Prayer" Matthew 6:9-13 and/or Luke 11:2-4 and bear with me all Theologians and teachers of The Word :).