Luke 11:1-13
When the dicisples asked Jesus how to pray, He gave them a template. That was because they have asked for one just as John had taught his disciple how to pray.
Jesus followed by a stroy of a man in boldness asking for bread for his host. Jesus followed by stating that ask and you will be given, seek and you will find, know and it will be open for you.
What is the story has to do with prayer? Is our God like the sleepy man who refuse to wake up to open the door to give bread to the asking man?
Jesus finally conclude the story as evil man we know how to give good gifts to our children, how much more is our God who give us not only good gifts but the Holy Spirit!
There is no need for a template for prayer, not that we need one. But how often do we pray? How often have we ask, seek or knock? God is not like the sleepy man, He is the God of the how much more, who gave us the Holy spirit!
When we work, we work and when we pray, God work- a phase by Ps Edmund Chan
He wants to bless and he know why we want the bread for, will he not give. As a father, I know what my child need before he ask, how much more my God know, do I still need to pray?
Yes, with boldness like the man who ask and with God who has given us the Holy Spirit, surely much much more the Lord will desire us to come not to ask for good gifts but to commune with Him.
Amen.
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