17/09/2025
GOD AND PRAYER
Genesis 1:1-2, 26-27: Matthew 28:19-20
THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF TRUE PRAYER. True prayer is asking that the true
God to be glorified.
The longest recorded public prayer of Jesus begins by: “Father, the time has
come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you” (Jn. 17:1). True prayer is
when we ask God to be glorified in our asking and that God be glorified in His
answering.
God’s glory is the perfection of His being, actions and words. In order to know the
glory of God we must know God’s perfection. This perfection is known in Jesus.
“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His
being, sustaining all things by His powerful word” (Hebrews 1:3).
The Psalmist exhorts:
“Lift up your heads, O you gates;
lift them up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
Who is He, this King of glory?
The Lord Almighty,
He is the King of Glory (24: 9-10).
In prayer the “gates of our heart” are lifted up for the Lord to enter. Samuel
Zwemer, one of the pioneer missionaries to the Muslim world writes:
“True prayer is God the Holy Spirit talking to God the Father in the name of God
the Son, and the believer’s heart is the prayer room” (Into All the
World, p. 160).
To experience the glorious prayer life that all of God’s people testify to, you must
come to God through faith in Jesus. This faith will lead you to pray.
