“At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, “In praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Pray then like this: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. . . . . . . . . . . .”
Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Thursday 20th June 2024 – MATTHEW 6:7-15.
So, some of us are faithful apostles of this assertion, “See it, take it and run away with it.”
In light of the above claim, some of us have practically adopted and have since been practising what we understood of this part of the Holy Bible, “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. – MATTHEW 11:12.
It is therefore very common to hear some folks praying like this, “Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die!”
We go ahead to say this word in sets, repeatedly.
Then, we will switch to the all time popular one, “Holy Ghost Fireeeeee! Fire! 15x. This we will continue in multiple sets.
Dear friend, just assuming one should approach you, requesting that you should talk to your boss on their behalf to sign the proposal they submitted to your office.
Then after saying this, the person would now go ahead and keep repeating the word, talk, talk, talk to the umpteenth time. After which they would switch to, “Your boss, boss, boss,, etc.
For goodness sake, wouldn’t one find that absurd and tiring?
If we that are mere mortals who give our attention to one thing at a time will still finds that absurd and tiring, talk less of God who has His attention on all the over 7 billion people in the world, not to talk about the fish in the water, birds in the air and the animals in the forest.
When, our friend approached us, the approach possibly went this way, “Good morning chairman. How do you do, I trust you had a good night rest. You obviously work really hard. Your boss is certainly blessed to have such a capable hand like you. I sincerely thank you for this privilege to have audience with you.
After all the pleasantries are over, as expected, the request will then be made.
Dear friend, the above is akin to the prayer taught by Christ in today’s teaching☝️above.
Prayer is a conversation between us who are praying and God Who is patiently listening to us. Would we want to wear Him away wit our verbal repetion?
By the way, assuming you are a father with many children. If one of them should approach you with a request to allow one of the siblings to die, just assuming you also have powers to take life.
No matter how much recalcitrant such sibling may be, what supposedly will be your reaction to such a request?
Now, that is same kind of position we put God into whenever we pray those our die, die, and fire, fire kind of prayer.
However, we have now been instructed on how to pray properly.
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo.