Good Morning Post Sating Lahat. This morning we will be hearing
a sermon penned by Reverend William B Slump and this
preaching was first breach in the Emmanuel Canadian Reform
Church, Edmonton, AB in 2008. Beloved congregation of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ. A while ago we read about
Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 45 and that is the last section
of the Heidelberg Catechism and it deals with prayer.
However, the question is why is prayer found at the very last
part of the catechism? Hindi Cuban Ambassador Nathan
Sapphism that prayer is the most important part of our
thankfulness and yet you your prayer in NASA Dulang Catechism
and usually when we want to say something and you know nothing
should be important important is Susanna Lama.
That's why my Papa is it tile Ekuban Prayer 18 written in
Heidelberg Catechism Ornamental authors now Heidelberg Catechism
as an afterthought. Oftentimes prayer functions like
that in the life of men. Bago Tayo McCray Gagawin.
Nothing going. You're going boy.
Nothing. Hindi umbra.
That is the only time that we will pray.
Tiny Treat not in your prayer as if it is an afterthought.
Burma Chapati angry son in Heidelberg catechism Kaya
inilagay sedulo young prayer well.
In reality however, Contigo Naten prayer has already been
dealt with at the beginning of the Heidelberg Catechism Sabina
Unang section to be specific in Lord's day #3 where we are told
about the creation of men and how it is before the fall of
mankind. I'm sad be sat in the Lords day.
Three is that God made man so that he might rightly know God
his Creator, that he might heartily love him and live with
him in eternal blessedness, and to praise and to glorify him.
Brothers and sisters, that is what prayer is all about.
We are created so that we can praise and glorify God.
For what is prayer? Prayer is communication with
God. It is in prayer that we give our
praises and glories to God. It is in prayer that we made
known to God our needs. It is in prayer that we praise
Him and thank Him for all the things that He has done for our
lives and before the fall in paradise.
That is what Adam and Eve has been doing all along.
They are communicating with God. They are glorifying God.
They are having communion with God.
However, sin came and put an end on that communication and
because of sin the communication between God and man has been
totally broken and only through God it will be restored again at
and second section now Heidelberg Catechism where we
were told how we have been delivered from our sins.
In other words, we have been told how the lines of
communication have been restored through our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ. And so it is no wonder come back
it NASA Duluth and Heidelberg Catechism and prayer, because
the final thing that our Lord and Jesus did is to open the
doors of heaven. It's to open the lines of
communication again. And that is what the Heidelberg
Catechism is trying to remind us, that the line of
communication has been restored, that all is well and therefore
we must make use of those lines of communication.
We must thank God and we must praise His name and we can
relate to that in our everyday lives.
Mima times may dumadating wars or devastating natural
calamities is an area or is an bansa Nagano classing
devastation. The first thing that we must do
is to restore the lines of communication.
When am I? Hey you my power lines.
You wanna telephone lines? Even you TV station and radio
station and Internet. Keelan Magleby's signal.
Because unless the line of communication has been restored,
we cannot go back to the way it was.
Hindi Marathi store. Young acting.
You're acting Bansa ichura Nieto, and that is the way with
prayer as well. When we pray, we show that the
lines of communication has been restored between God and man.
Prayer is essential to the life of a Christian.
Indeed, no one can say to himself that he is a Christian
if he doesn't know how to pray at it.
Reaching out in this morning, that will be summarised in this
title, that prayer is necessary to keep the lines of
communication open between God and us.
And we must open the line of communication number one for
God's glory and #2 for man's eternal wellbeing.
But before we proceed, let us go to the Lord in prayer.
Father God, we come before You to humbly listen to the
preaching of Your Word. We pray that you educate us and
you remind us about the value and the importance of prayer in
our lives. I pray that you give us humble
hearts, that we will listen to the preaching of your word as if
we are not merely listening to the words of men, but that we
are listening to the very words of God.
And I pray that you also guide me as I deliver this sermon
manuscript to your congregation. I pray that you give me
reverence that I will not say my own opinion, but I will be
faithful to the preaching of Your word.
Please guide us. So God open our eyes and our
ears, and may we know your word and apply them in our lives.
In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
So sabi pun natin, we must open the line of communication first
for the glory of God. But what does it mean for man to
live for the glory of God? It means that we must live in
total harmony with Him, and He is that we must live in
accordance to the will of God. But as we all know, that is not
happening right now because man rebelled against God in
paradise, and man has been doing so since then.
And now instead of harmony, there is this harmony.
Instead of peace, there is strife.
That's why it's in having it. In Genesis chapter 3, he said
that there will be an enmity between the seed of the woman
and the seed of the servant. In other words, brothers and
sisters, we are in the middle of a war and parties that are at
war do not communicate with each other because their goal is to
destroy each other. For their interests is always in
conflict with each other. And though they don't have
anything to do absolutely with one another, and that is also
what we see whenever we see in the news, 2 warring nations
enter into a war between each other.
The warring parties will do everything in their own power to
bring down the lines of communication.
They will bomb the radio station, the television station,
so that no propaganda and no information and no help can go
out to the people. And any people that they can
capture, they will not allow to communicate with their own side.
They want them to be totally cut off from contact with the enemy.
And if they will feed them information, they will only feed
them false information to demoralise them.
Because those countries who enter into war, they don't want
to give even a little glance of hope, Paradise, Kanilang,
Malavan. And by cutting off all contacts
and all communication, they will also prevent any help from
coming into them. So my chapati Gustino Manali
Sanghera, the one thing that you should remember is that you must
prevent your enemy from communicating among themselves
and with others. They need to be totally cut off.
And brothers and sisters, that as well is the tactic of Satan.
He doesn't. He doesn't want you to be in
communication with God, and He will do everything in his power
to keep us from having fellowship with God.
He does not want us to have contact with God and He does not
want us to receive any help from God and he doesn't want us to
have any hope. And when he wants us to believe
that God is no longer around, Satan is bent on destroying us.
That's why he wants to demoralise us.
And if he is going to give us any information at all, he will
give us false information. And so it is important for every
Christian to have a constant communication with God, for
without communion with God, we will perish eternally.
Nothing. I don't know.
Poonam Bagai, Nagustuhan Malama, Nathan.
The first thing that God wants us to know is that Satan has
already lost the battle. Yes, there may be little ongoing
wars here and there, but and the main battle has already been won
because Satan is already in retreat.
And we have to be reminded of that over and over again, even
in the Old Testament. The believers there have to know
this. They have to know that despite
the battles going around the world in spite the existence of
sin and evil, ultimately Satan cannot touch those who belong to
God. And why is that, Anupam, while
you, my Old Testament believers, Saganum Pangako?
It is because God promised that He will send a Redeemer, that He
will send a Saviour, and this promise was given to us as early
as in the Paradise Thailand Sinabing.
God is that the seed of the woman will crush the head of the
serpent, Satan. And He made that promise because
the Lord hates war and strife. He wants the lines of
communication to be restored, to be open so that we can talk to
Him again. For He knows that only He can
help us in our battle against Satan.
And so through His Son Jesus Christ, He also opened the doors
of communication at Nancy, Jesus Christ, Paul and Lupa and Sabina
is that He is the door by which the sheep can go through the
sheep fold. He is the door of the sheep, and
no one can come to the Father except through him.
And when Christ has died and he ascended into heaven and sat at
the right hand of God, he made that access for his children a
certainty, for he laid down his life for his sheep so that this
could come about at Shinobi Mahapatra Dito.
Well, let's have it take a careful note of the way question
116 in Heidelberg Catechism was phrased a while ago.
I'm saved on why is prayer necessary for Christians so
ginami Tang Heidelberg catechism young term nutritions dahil yung
sheep. It pertains to the Christians
sat in the Lords day 12. We are called Christians because
we are members of Christ by faith.
And when Christ ascended into heaven, he sat at the right hand
of God, and He made the access of communication with God a
complete certainty. So if we really are sheep of
Christ, if we are really Christians, if we are really the
people of Christ, then we must put our faith in Christ.
Then we must believe that He has won the victory for us.
Then we must believe that He is seated at the right hand of God.
Now to intercede for you and me. That's why we can listen to the
apostle Paul in Romans 834 to 36 saying these words.
Who is he the condemns Christ Jesus who died?
More than that, who was raised to life, is at the right hand of
God and is also interceding for us.
So that is our hope, that Christ did not only die for us, but he
also rose again. He ascended into heaven and He
is interceding for us. That is why the line of
communication is always open, but she breaking demo Palos is
Heaton. Satan is always trying to engage
us, to engage us in some sort of a battle.
He wants us to rebel against God and he wants us to do whatever
that will keep us from having full fellowship with God.
In other words, Satan wants to separate us from God.
However, the apostle Paul also says, who shall separate us from
the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or
persecution or famine, or nakedness or danger or sword for
us? It is written for your sake.
We face that all day long. We are considered a sheep to be
slaughtered. That's why, brothers and
sisters, we must believe. We must believe in our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ. However, when I talk about
belief or when I talk about faith, it does not mean a
passive faith. It should be an active fate
because faith is not only about trusting the Lord with all of
our hearts, but faith involves doing something as well.
Someone who has faith does not just sit back and do nothing,
but he acts in accordance with his faith.
In Luther, we are saved by faith alone, but we are not saved by a
faith that is alone, because a living faith, a true saving
faith, is always coupled with action.
And if we believe that our Father exist in heaven and that
He deeply cares for you and me, and that He loves us so much,
and that He provides for all our needs, and that He fights all of
our battles for us, then we will want to talk with Him.
We would want to talk to Him. When Christ gave up his life for
us, He did not do it so that his children will be left passive.
Gagawin. But actually Christ also showed
his children how they are to keep the lines of communication
with God open and that, brothers and sisters, is through prayer.
Prayer is very necessary and integral part of our
relationship with God. And for that reason, the basa
nothingness Karina Samachu 6 that Jesus Christ left his
disciples and all of the believers with the Lord's
Prayer. He gave us the Lord's Prayer
because he wants us to pray. Because prayer is a command,
it's not an option. Indeed, I operating making
Christian Christian prayers adding is an optional thing.
No, a prayerless Christian is a contradiction of terms because
no Christian will ever not pray to God.
However, there is a problem. Kita Benegas attend the cries
Young Lord's Prayer kidnapping Rumania Tayu Manalangin.
Because of sin, we have lost our ability to speak to God and that
is why we must be taught how to pray over and over again.
So chapati, there's a lot of praying that is going on in this
world. People pray for this and that
and for everything else, but much of it, however, are
worthless prayers. Kyanas and Abbas Anakin said
James chapter 4 I'm sabadito, you ask and you do not receive
because you ask wrongly. Papadi, there is such a thing as
a wrong prayer. What nothing is happening now
clashing and prayer I valid and that is our problem.
They even with us among Reformed Christians, we do not always
pray for the right things and we do not always pray in the right
manner. Unang barina dapat nothing
Malaman about prayer did is that prayer must be based on an
intimate knowledge of who God is.
That is why in answer 117, it tells us that we must from our
heart call upon the one true God only.
Who has revealed himself in his word?
Mbata owner in Egypt Mila as long as all OK neon despite no
marapatti. The only true prayer is a prayer
that is directed directed to the only one true God.
So we can confidently say Kait number sound tired Mayabang that
those who are praying to Buddha, those who are praying to Allah,
or those who are praying to other gods, no one is hearing
their prayers because those idols are lifeless.
They are not the one true God. That's why sinabihan Kanina that
there are many prayers that are going on in this world, but much
of them are worthless because they are not directed to the one
through God. And another problem that we have
in prayer is that a lot of us are having difficulty in praying
la Lola Luna po in public prayer.
Some of us, we don't know what to say.
Your task? No prayers about Magaling
Magsalita or Samantha Alamilla in prayer.
There are even parents who cannot leave their prayers in
front of the table. Sahani langa anak.
And there are men in the congregation who will not pray
in public. Dial silapho.
I need an Airbus. It's a problem of the nerves.
Well, that is understandable brothers and sisters, but one
thing that we must ask ourselves is why are we nervous?
Bucket batayo kinakabahan ka tayo in in public about one
possible reason is that probably we are comparing ourselves to
those smooth tongue cannot compare Nathaniel McCray haha
Alam nila Yuma right words in my right phrases Kapila
inappropriate. But prayer is not just heaping
of empty worn out phrases and words.
You know rebuked the Jesus among the Pharisees Hindi to pagaling
in Hindi ito oration Hindi ito declamation.
But prayer is communication with God.
And those people who only pray in public, even though how good
they are in prayer, if they are not praying in private, it only
shows that they don't really know their maker and they don't
have an intimate relationship with God.
For what is prayer? Magkapatid prayer is the
expression of our covenant relationship with God.
And if you know what it means to live within that covenant
relationship, then you will not have any problem about prayer.
You will not be at loss for words because if you really know
God then alamona Hindi Japanese facilita alamana Primo there is
you are just saying or you are just groaning.
You cannot find the right words to say.
God is still understands your prayer.
So He understands our struggles. He knows that we are being
chased and we are being the target of Satan.
So you can tell those things to God, Puddicombe, Magsumbong,
Sanya, and He will answer you and He will encourage you and He
will comfort you. And if we really understand that
we are in a covenant relationship with our Lord and
Saviour, then we will also know when to pray.
Chapati tradition of Christians who maintain a rigorous schedule
of prayer numeracy long definite period of the day where they
pray that Liam is strictly umaga tanghale happen Gabe neprisla.
But most of us are not like that, I said.
Don't customary usual prayer. Nothing not that long basis is
an arrow at your prayer. Bago Matulog schedule young set
of rules starting prayer at an excuse not in for having that
practice practice is that alumni managing that we can pray at any
place and at anytime Tamapa. However, experience tells us
that those things that are not done in a specific time will be
done in no time at all. Kya chilling and una poonami
pinapa assignments amima counselling schedule kayo nang
regular prayer time cause Alam namin from regular scheduled and
prayer time Hindi talaga tayo Meridian Sabina independent
practice. Could you presence the God
throughout the whole day? My friends were nothing.
If indeed Pata laga specific time to meet God, it will also
be. It will also be impossible for
us to maintain the presence of God in our everyday lives and as
Christians. Brothers and sisters, prayers,
prayer must be as natural as breathing.
Indeed, to dapat Philippe Coutinho Balague, you go in.
That is why the Apostle Paul urges his readers in first Test
Solonians 517 to pray continually.
Paul says that you should be praying at all times, that we
should be giving God thanks in all circumstances.
Keen on Mapati is that we should be praying to Him during times
that there is much rejoicing and times where there is much
adversity and affliction, because the Lord, if we will
only pray to Him, will give us our needs.
But let's listen further to what the Catechism is saying to us
about prayer. It says that she will only give
to those who ask, that God will only give to those who ask.
But then we will wonder, is that really the case?
Talagang, Jos. In B in the 1st place Hindutva,
God already knows what we need even before we tell Him that
into Sam's 139 verse 4 before a word is on my tongue, you know
it completely. Ohh Lord, I think it is true
that there are people who do not pray but receive the same things
that we receive tamapa. There are people who receive
their bread, they receive their drinks, their shelter and their
clothing, even though they don't pray to God.
And sometimes they receive even more Tamapa.
Yeah, Changu baby million million.
But such statements, brothers and sisters, is not made out of
faith. Such statement is not made by
someone who knows the way of the Lord.
Because in the 1st place, God requires that we ask Him for His
gifts. Therefore you need nothing.
Playing on it is a matter of obedience.
Hindi. Ito a matter of cause and
effect. Hindi Tanghali and Onanga Behan
wanna play again tight Manipuri nakatanga.
But the problem is we are commanded to pray.
So it's a matter of obedience. And sure, there are these people
who, though they do not pray, they receive more than us, but
they are disobedient and they are receiving this blessing to
their own condemnation. So we must not envy them,
because the things that they receive becomes judgment of God
upon them. Indeed God gives us.
Indeed, God gives to all men, but He gives only so that the
recipient may acknowledge him as the supplier of all good things.
I kept my receipt. Then you are missing the point.
You are missing the true blessing behind the giving.
And God gives us whatever we needs, whatever we need so that
we may have a 40s of what is heaven like.
Imagine those who are not praying, those who are not
putting their faith in Christ. They are receiving things that
are supposed to be the 4th taste of heaven, but then at the end
of their life they will not go to heaven.
That's why we should not envy them because they are receiving
these blessings to their own condemnation in prayer.
Beloved, it's not only for receiving things, but prayer is
an expression of our faith. If you truly believe that God
exists and that He created all things and that He provides
every single thing in your life, then you cannot help but talk to
Him about it and thank Him for all of these gifts.
Deepu basic rise cabinas Anakin and gospels languishing.
Nawala laggy Shanique withdraw Napabi Sunila andaming Tao, and
then suddenly Bolana cries. Young Pala, he slipped away so
that he can pray better be praying me.
Christ is. Is that always parameterization
something? No, but Christ is always
slipping away because she loves God the Father and he cannot
wait but tell God the Father all the wonderful things that he has
done through him, and he wants to love God the Father.
He wants to thank him, He wants to spend time with him.
So it's not just about receiving brothers and sisters, but it is
an expression of our faith. That's why when we see the
sunrise, when we see the grass growing, when we see the animals
being looked after in the field, in the forest, in the air, in
the sea, and whenever we see food in our table, Kapino
providing, what we have to do is to go to God and to thank Him
and to talk to Him about this. Then we have to pour out our
hearts to Him and to give things to Him.
Someone who has studied God's Word realises fully well that
whatever he receives, he receives out of grace alone.
Humanity received that in Sepang in on Hindi Dahil deserved
nothing. But on the other hand, the only
thing that we deserve is condemnation because of our sin.
And it's only through God's grace that we are the recipients
of so many wonderful things. And someone who truly knows the
Lord also knows deep in their heart that whatever He receives
or not receive is for their own good.
Sometimes not be pretty tile to God.
Not some bargain talagang feeling nothing young gustong
gusto and indignation might imagine bakit we withhold sat in
megaton bagnato and yet we need withhold in Dalby Hindi naging
masaya tayo dahlby Hindi Guzman josna tayo.
Brothers and sisters, that is foolishness to think that way
because if God the Father who is in heaven sends his Son to shed
blood for our sins, then anupam good things you will hold satin.
Talabani. Is it Nathan then is to cause us
harm? And as the Lord Jesus says in
the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 7, what earthly father
would give his own son a serpent instead of a fish?
What earthly father will give his own son a stone instead of a
piece of bread? If it's if that is how with our
earthly fathers, who are usually not usually who are 100% of the
times sinners, evil, then what? What does it look like with our
Heavenly Father? The Lord God will never give you
anything in order to harm you. If you are truly a Christian,
then everything that comes your way will always be for your own
good, even if sometimes not perceive not in the things
adding I forms of evil indivisible.
You know not pinapadala naa man, for he cannot do that, said
Romans 828. For all things work together for
those who love Him and are called according to His own
purpose. That's why illuminating that
everything happens for our own good.
Cameraman Winnie withhold and just hating it's for our own
good. That's why when we pray, we must
acknowledge Him as our faithful and our loving Father.
And as we read from the letter of James, God gives to all men
generously, yet we must ask in faith.
We must not doubt. For he who doubt is like a wave
of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
The Lord your God is concerned about you.
He is concerned about our eternal will be.
And that leads us to the second point of our preaching.
As we saw a while ago, prayer is only for Christians and prayer
for indeed para semana unbeliever.
But it's only for Christian. It is only for those who know
the will of the Lord and who are willing to do the will of the
Lord. And if you know God, then you
also know that you are to fight against your skin with all your
might. And those who lie and cheat
habitually without remorse, and who then lift up their hands in
prayer to God and in worship, as it is said in Isaiah 115, they
will not be able to see the face of God because it will be hidden
from them in those who refuse to forgive.
Those who sin against them will not expect to receive
forgiveness from God, even though they pray for it.
And those who do not want to put a good fight when Satan tempts
them will not receive any health benefit if they pray for
protection from temptation. And it also does not make any
sense for us to ask riches from God when God says in Matthew
1924 that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of
the needle for than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of
God. My point, brothers and sisters,
is that it is supposed to be pray and work.
It must be Ora et labora. 1 does not come without the other.
You will not receive something from God if you are not willing
to fight for it yourself. Even our children's magkapatid,
they know that they are something that they cannot ask
from their parents. Kya Misan Marina minion game
mummy and daddy can say Hindi naman B gay sahim you might
parents nila. And that should be the same way
with us. We should also know our Heavenly
Father. We ought to know what we can ask
and what we can ask for. We ought to know what is a
legitimate request and what is a non legitimate requests.
As Paul says, inefficiency 5/17 Do not be foolish, but
understand what the Lord's will is and the Lord said in the
Sermon on the Mount. Your father knows what you need
before you ask him. Peron Ibiza be known I they'll
Alanna palam Panini before Nathan Sabihin So Sabihin.
No, that is not the meaning of that.
But the meaning of that is that you cannot lead him astray.
Kahit normally and prayer more pama and ebb Guinea Sayo Ganon
class in Angus. Cameron Taylor At one point of
the ministry of Jesus, there were people who brought a
paralytic to him, aching paralytic.
And yes, I cannot stand up even parasite young personal needs
and personal wants. And why while this paralytic is
in the feet, is at the feet of Jesus, the people around him
they knew fully well, at least they think that they knew what
the greatest need of that paralytic is.
Chevron Isabella and greatest Magneto I gumaling.
Ohh, I think I can Yang Sarili, but that is not how the story
goes, Mahapit. If we were if we are going to
read that account and then give me Jesus Christ and Sabina Jesus
Christ don't paralytic son, your sins are forgiven because even
though Akala natin Alam natin jupina importantly need nothing
must Alam nang Jose and Christ does not only know the deepest
need of the man, but he also provides for the the deepest
need of that man. And so we must know what is
really good for us, Alan style without ceasing diva dependency
Now because we want to prolong our prayer Since I've been doing
nothing nothing to begin Mahaba people in freestyle starting
prayer at an in a sasabihin atienza dios.
One case, 90% being but Pindhiba, Sabini, King Solomon.
We are on earth and God is in is in.
We are on earth and God is in heaven.
Therefore our words must be few. Indigo now 5 minutes and I'm
playing in Nagano in. Is that 19 normal SAB Modiba
indeed MOSAB ohh and that is that should be the same way with
God because they could spend more on sasabihin more then how
much more when you are standing face to face and you are
communicating with the God of the universe.
So we are on earth and God is in heaven.
So our words must be you meaning to say we must think about it
and that includes that we must know what is good for us.
What tayong healing and healing. I was on an iPad Lord was on a
iPad iguana known girlfriend. I love you son and girlfriend
and believe your girlfriend. There is such thing as
legitimate request and unlegit imate requests.
That's why in answer 116 the Heidelberg Catechism mentioned
to us the most important prayer needs that we have the two most
important prayer items. The Hindi Dapat Nawawala sat in
prayer list and it speaks about two things God's grace and the
Holy Spirit. Aduana, Thomas.
Import Antipa, Sadela One Prayer Items.
NATO Biddle, Balika Natin. When was the last time we
prayed? And when was the last time that
we prayed for God's grace? And when was the last time that
we prayed for the Holy Spirit? Napapijri pub inattention.
They allow you people in Athens ideal prayer important thing
prayer items. And why do we need first of all,
God's grace so desperately in our lives?
We need God's grace because we fell into sin.
We are all sinners. Without God's grace in our
lives, we will perish eternally. For God's grace refers to his
mercy. God's grace refers to His
compassion. And there is even an old Hebrew
word that connects the word grace to the womb of the mother,
Bangalore. He always, she always wants what
is the best for the baby and she doesn't want anything harm to
happen to that baby and that is the same as well between God and
his children. That's why we should always ask
for the grace of God. And for that reason we also must
pray for the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit will dwell in
our hearts if we are truly desirous to live close to our
God. For what does the Holy Spirit
do? Anubha and main ministry in the
Holy Spirits acting the Holy Spirit sanctifies us.
That is the majority of the activity of the Holy Spirit in
the life of a Christian. That means He makes us wholly,
He makes us pure, He makes us righteous, and He makes us
acceptable in the sight of God. And the Holy Spirit does that by
burning away all of our impurities.
And the Holy Spirit also guides us.
The Holy Spirit reminds us time and again of the law of God and
what it takes for us to show our thankfulness to him.
And the Holy Spirit reminds us of the will of God.
And most of all, Mahatid. The Holy Spirit reminds us that
our obedience ultimately depends on the obedience of Christ
alone. That's why it's only through the
Holy Spirit that we can be called children of God.
They are brothers and sisters. We are at war, but in that war
let us not forget that God is on our side.
That's why we should always call Him to our side.
And it's only through Him that we can win this battle against
Satan. And it's only through him that
the lines of communication has been restored.
That's why we should keep those lines open.
We must always pray continually. Amen.
Let us all pray. Father God, we thank you for
reminding us over and over again that the lines of communication
that has been destroyed by sin is now restored in our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ. That we do not only served as
the door, He did not only serve as the way to heaven, our way to
you, but it's also now seated at the right hand of the power and
He is now providing certainty for our access to you.
Ohh God. So Father, please remind us that
we cannot live our lives alone, especially when Satan is out to
destroy us, that we need our greatest ally in our lives, and
that is You. Ohh God, we pray that you teach
us to always keep the lines of communication, that we will
practice prayer as natural as breathing.
Father, we pray that as we grow in our knowledge of the world
that we will also grow in our prayer lives.
And that we do not only pray in public.
That we are not only good in speaking the right words when we
are praying in the presence of our brothers and sisters, but
that we are continually praying to You even though no one is
looking us. So Father, help us realise our
great need for you and always help us to come to you, to pray
to you and to always keep the lines of communication open.
All of this we pray in Jesus name, Amen.