I teach you the practice of petitioning God the Father .. first, in his more localized indwelling and second, in his Paradise Residence at the Center and Source.
Petition him with a clear heart, an unconquerable faith, an invincible trust, an empowering genuineness.
Petitions of Prayerful Intimacy Communion just as I show you with the free will kingdom powers.
Your prayer is truly the life you live with the vision, verities, and volitions I teach you in our Salvington University Seminary.
Prayer refreshes and renews and rejuvenates and reignites when approached with spontaneously sincere intentions .. genuinely humble motivations.
Prayerful Intimacy Communion is your destiny deliverer.
Again I sayeth to you...
Approach your reciprocity of relationship with I and the Father Son Spirit by understanding the way of your place in the Universe.
Approach the Parenthood of God appropriately, and always will you have a response to your petitioning prayer.
Prayers asking for understanding of God's truth .. for alignment with God's goodness .. salvation of all your personal impressions and expressions .. these are asking rightly and with obedience and discipline.
Ask and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For every one who asks in the right way and with the understanding that you are to become God's extension, these ones shall always receive; he and she who seek shall find when their searching is to expand the Life of the Father's Presence; and to her and him who knock assertively and also receptively, the door of salvation shall be opened.
Be thou persistence in your prayerful petitions .. and persevere in praying for Wholeness and for the dissolving ofcall wickedness, and pray not to intend that your prayerful petitions change the just and righteous Father above; for this would be inconsistent with the ways of heaven.
Your wholehearted personality persistence is not to win favor with God nor to influence him to do your bidding and agenda .. yet Prayerful Intimacy Communion rearranges you into alignment with him.
Prayerful Intimacy Communion changes your earthly attitudes .. it enlarges your soul’s capacity for spirit receptivity and humbling relationship.
(1619.4) 144:2.6 “But when you pray, you exercise so little faith. Genuine faith will remove mountains of material difficulty which may chance to lie in the path of soul expansion and spiritual progress.
Teach us how acceptably to pray to the Father in heaven.
(1619.6) 144:3.2 When James had finished speaking, Jesus said: “If, then, you still desire such a prayer, I would present the one which I taught my brothers and sisters in Nazareth”:
(1620.1) 144:3.3 Our Father who is in heaven,
(1620.2) 144:3.4 Hallowed be your name.
(1620.3) 144:3.5 Your kingdom come; your will be done
(1620.4) 144:3.6 On earth as it is in heaven.
(1620.5) 144:3.7 Give us this day our bread for tomorrow;
(1620.6) 144:3.8 Refresh our souls with the water of life.
(1620.7) 144:3.9 And forgive us every one our debts
(1620.8) 144:3.10 As we also have forgiven our debtors.
(1620.9) 144:3.11 Save us in temptation, deliver us from evil,
(1620.10) 144:3.12 And increasingly make us perfect like yourself.
(1620.11) 144:3.13 It is not strange that the apostles desired Jesus to teach them a model prayer for believers. John the Baptist had taught his followers several prayers; all great teachers had formulated prayers for their pupils. The religious teachers of the Jews had some twenty-five or thirty set prayers which they recited in the synagogues and even on the street corners. Jesus was particularly averse to praying in public. Up to this time the twelve had heard him pray only a few times. They observed him spending entire nights at prayer or worship, and they were very curious to know the manner or form of his petitions. They were really hard pressed to know what to answer the multitudes when they asked to be taught how to pray as John had taught his disciples.
(1620.12) 144:3.14 Jesus taught the twelve always to pray in secret; to go off by themselves amidst the quiet surroundings of nature or to go in their rooms and shut the doors when they engaged in prayer.
(1620.13) 144:3.15 After Jesus’ death and ascension to the Father it became the practice of many believers to finish this so-called Lord’s prayer by the addition of — “In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Still later on, two lines were lost in copying, and there was added to this prayer an extra clause, reading: “For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forevermore.”
(1620.15) 144:3.17 Jesus taught that effective prayer must be:
(1620.16) 144:3.18 1. Unselfish — not alone for oneself.
(1620.17) 144:3.19 2. Believing — according to faith.
(1620.18) 144:3.20 3. Sincere — honest of heart.
(1620.19) 144:3.21 4. Intelligent — according to light.
(1620.20) 144:3.22 5. Trustful — in submission to the Father’s all-wise will.
(1620.21) 144:3.23 When Jesus spent whole nights on the mountain in prayer, it was mainly for his disciples, particularly for the twelve. The Master prayed very little for himself, although he engaged in much worship of the nature of understanding communion with his Paradise Father.
Michael Of Nebadon
Urantia Fellowship
