Abecedary of Prayer 17-17

04/04/23 • 41 min

My Weekly Milk - House of Prayer for All Nations

This study is to refresh our knowledge concerning the bases or foundations of prayer. Prayer cannot be taught, but at the same time must be taught. Our mind-sets must be changed or renewed when it comes to prayer. It is just a conversation that one has with his Heavenly Father, with his elder brother Jesus and with his Helper the Holy Spirit. It is a time of communion or fellowship with the Godhead. The fellowship that we have with the
Godhead, we want everybody to have; it is not peculiar to a few but available to all (1John 1:3).
Just like we needed to be taught the foundation blocks of numeracy and literacy, so that we will be able to relate with the world around us and be independent, not needing anybody to talk for us because we cannot express our thoughts, or to do the shopping and sign contracts for us, because we cannot count or do simple arithmetic operations. Likewise we also need to be taught the foundation blocks of prayer, so that we will be able to relate with our Heavenly Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit without any intermediary or middleman.

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Return Journey Gilgal to Jordan East 1 of 3

We all have to board the train at Gilgal; it is the beginning of our journey as believers. One cannot avoid Gilgal train station. What is so special with Gilgal? Gilgal means the rolling away, for the Lord had rolled away the reproach of Egypt. In Joshua 5, we read the account of the children of Israel when they came in the promise land. God had already said that the land was theirs, although they had conquered no city yet. But God told them to stop at Gilgal before doing anything. At Gilgal, God asked Joshua to circumcise all the people of Israel. For their fathers, who were circumcised before they came out of Egypt, had all died in the wilderness during the forty years they spent wandering. All those who were born in the wilderness were not circumcised.

The circumcision was the token or an indication that God has imputed His righteousness unto them; for the circumcision is not of the flesh but of the heart (Romans 2:28-29). God gives us a new heart and puts a new spirit within us; He takes away our heart of stone and gives us a heart of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26). This generation spent time in the wilderness; they ate manna, the bread from heaven, with their fathers; they drank from the Rock that followed them, which was Christ. Yet at Gilgal, God instructed Joshua to circumcise all of them.

Many people in our days are like that generation which crossed with Joshua. We have seen our fathers or parents serving the Lord. Our parents were born again believers, but we just followed the motion, we went to church because our parents brought us to church. We had no choice but to obey our parents. We partook of the bread and wine, done in remembrance of Jesus. But we were not born again, circumcised of the heart; for God had not imputed his righteousness unto us. We were just religious; church was our social club where we met our friends and people of the same group of interest. But we were not born again.