Jan. 10, 2024

“THE PRINCIPLES OF PRAYER” PART 8

MATTHEW 6:5-15

11. Giving God the Praise Due His Name is the Eleventh

Principal of Prayer.

Matthew 5:13 "and the Glory." For thine is the Glory. As you align your heart, with God's heart, you quickly find out how great and wonderful He really is.

Psalm 150:1-6 "Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.”

"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus." (Phil. 2:5) Prayer, as a school master, makes us like Christ and teaches us:

1. To have fellowship with God instead of trying to live on our own.

2. To learn humility instead of being arrogant.

3. To deal with our sins now, and to not put it off but to get right with God and to try to stay right.

4. To have the proper priorities of spiritual first, physical last. To be heavenly minded instead of being so fleshly minded we earthly or heavenly good.

5. To learn submission instead of stubbornness.

6. To learn intercession instead of being selfish.

7. To learn dependence instead of having an independent spirit. To learn and develop faith in God and to trust Him.

8. To learn forgiveness instead of judgment.

9. To ask for deliverance from sin instead of being condemned for committing it.

10. God’s ownership, so we are not covetous.

11. God’s enabling power instead of our trumped up hypocrisy.

12. To give God the praise instead of developing our egotistical pride.

 Amos 3:3: "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?”

God desires us to walk with Him like Enoch did, and in so doing he became like Him.

Two of the Great Purposes of Prayer are…

1. Fellowship with God - abiding

2. Transformation - gaining His character, becoming like Him.