Jesus Christ Teaches a Prayer that is Groaning within the Soul of All Believers

Luke 11:1-4

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Prayer is so difficult nowadays because there is a thing that has power over physiology which constantly interferes. It has the power to form thoughts, emotions, and feelings to make our prayers seem virtually unheard and out of the reach of the ears of God. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people, and they constantly mock the privacy of our thoughts and feelings by openly expressing them through the uncanny knowledge and heightened intuition that they are given. This is all part of mocking God, blaspheming the Holy Spirit, and discarding the need for Jesus Christ. They do not have a prayer within their hardened soul.

As the image of the beast lives and speaks through people, they are conformed to their place in life by what they say and do. They are conformed to their mark in life as they are groomed to the mark of the beast. Instead of relying on prayer to God the Creator, they rely on the guidance of the thing which forms thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and speech.

Daniel recited a prayer in Daniel 9:1-19, and when the Angel came in response to that prayer (Daniel 9:20-27), He told Daniel there were some things he needed to understand about the events progressing towards the last days. By understanding the events of the last days, we can better understand how God answers prayers.

In this post, Jesus shares how we should pray. Prayers are not in the words we speak but are found in the groanings of our heart where the Spirit makes intercession for us.

• The question is asked, how should we pray?
• Prayer is from a heart full of reverence for God.
• Prayer is from a heart-felt desire for Heaven and earth to be reconciled.
• Prayer is from a heart yearning for the Bread of Life.
• Prayer is from the heart’s desire for reconciled relationships.
• Prayer is from a heart seeking deliverance from evil.
• Prayer is to acknowledge the eternal kingdom, power, and glory of God.

The question is asked, how should we pray? “Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1

There is a big difference in praying the way the leaders in the churches do and how John and Jesus pray. Part of teaching us how to pray is to be sincere and personal with God in the name of Jesus. In fact, we really don’t know how to pray so intercession is made for us, “Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” Romans 8:26

Public prayers are not what God is looking for, “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.” Matthew 6:5-7 Prayers are not in the words we openly speak but are found in the groanings of our heart where the Spirit makes intercession for us.

 Prayer is from a heart full of reverence for God. “So He said to them, “When you pray, say: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.” Luke 11:2a.

From deep within our soul there is a groaning of prayer that continually gives reverence and honor to God. As followers of Jesus Christ, that is the Holy Spirit making intercession for us twenty-four hours per day and seven days a week. Jesus takes no days off in making intercession for us, and when He walked on this earth there wasn’t a second that went by to where He wasn’t saying, “Father in Heaven hallowed be Your name.” Jesus never ever whispers a single word of prayer to the thing that has power over physiology and sets itself up as God in the temple of God, our body. He never refers to the thing which forms thoughts and feelings as being hallowed, sacred, or Holy.

Prayer is from a heart-felt desire for Heaven and earth to be reconciled. “Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Luke 11:2b.

The whole mission of Jesus Christ is to reconcile humanity with God by dying on the Cross and atoning for sin. Deep within our soul there are continual groanings for people to live for the kingdom of God by living for Jesus. That is the Holy Spirit in us making intercession for the whosoever, He wants everyone to know, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

There is no earthly kingdom of God, there is no eternal global democracy, and the global government is not Heaven on earth. There are no groanings of the Spirit yearning for a world governed by the beast. The inner groanings of prayer includes a yearning for the return of Jesus Christ, “And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Revelation 6:10

Prayer is from a heart yearning for the Bread of Life. “Give us this day our daily bread.” Luke 11:3

Jesus Christ made it His life to share the will of God with everyone, which is to come to Salvation through His Son, Jesus. In fact, Jesus is the Bread of Life. When we come to Jesus, He gives us the Holy Spirit who yearns and groans for the Holy Scriptures, the Word of God, the Bread of Life. Deep within the soul of a Believer is a continual groaning for the words of Christ, as read in the Holy Bible and received through the Holy Spirit.

Those who govern by the thing which forms what we think, feel, do, and speak, do it in the name of humanism. They believe in the needs of the human being, such as for food, but they do nothing to answer the groaning for the Bread of Life. As a result, the churches of today do not have the groaning of the Spirit in them and they have discarded the need for the Gospel of Christ, which feeds us from the Bread of Life.

There is no groaning for the Bread of Life within the “democratic” social network. They allow the image of the beast to live and speak through them and their “bread” comes by welcoming the thing which forms thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and speech. They are fed in a way that starves and extinguishes the groanings of the Spirit. They harden the human spirit to build a wall against the Spirit of Christ. Jesus tells us not to fear those who can kill the body but not the soul, but to fear God who can destroy both the body and soul in Hell.

Prayer is from the heart’s desire for reconciled relationships. “And forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” Luke 11:4a.

Jesus Christ came to this earth for one purpose and one purpose only, to bring the forgiveness of sins by sacrificing Himself on the Cross as the sinless Lamb of God. Deep within our soul, the Holy Spirit is groaning for people to come to Him for the forgiveness of sins. The only reason for being tolerant of others and forgiving those who have violated us in some way, is to keep the door open to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If we do not have that forgiveness, then we have blasphemed the Holy Spirit and Jesus cannot forgive us.

We are to close the door and leave those who reject the forgiveness that Jesus Christ offers. There is no forgiveness for blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. We are set apart from the ways of the world, but we offer the Gospel of Christ to those who are receptive to His forgiveness. Whoever believes in Him will be saved. Jesus Christ made every effort imaginable to offer forgiveness of sins to the Jewish nation, but they have rejected Him. Because they rejected Him, He had to reject them, then Jesus went to those who were receptive to His forgiveness, the Gentiles (all the non-Jews), which includes me.

Prayer is from a heart seeking deliverance from evil. “And do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from evil.” Luke 4b.

Jesus Christ set an example when He was in the wilderness for forty days as He was being led out of temptation and being delivered from evil. As followers of Jesus Christ, there is a deep groaning within our soul to overcome temptation and to be delivered from evil. We yearn for devotion to God, to live by the testimony of Jesus, and to embrace the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit lives in us as the shield of righteousness who deflects the fiery darts from the evil one.

Today, the evil one (Satan) operates through the thing which enflames our carnal feelings, makes us think on physical desires, causes us to act out in carnal behaviors, and forms words that we wish we had never said. Its business is to lead the masses of the world into temptation and deliver them into evil. The temptation is to give in to physical comforts, money, possessions, and authority to live for the government of the beast.

Prayer is to acknowledge the eternal kingdom, power, and glory of God. “For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.” Matthew 6:13b.

Jesus Christ came to proclaim the eternal kingdom of God, to demonstrate the power to conquer sin and death. Deep within our soul, there is a groaning through the Holy Spirit acknowledging the eternal kingdom of Heaven and proclaiming the power He has over sin and death. “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.” Ephesians 1:13-14

We trust in Jesus Christ after hearing the Gospel which led us to Salvation. The Holy Spirit is given to us as the guarantee of eternal life until that day of eternal redemption happens. There are groanings deep within us waiting for that day, “…but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.” Romans 8:23

Jesus says to pray in this way,

“Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil.”
Luke

“For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.”
Matthew 6:13b.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11