{"id":4628,"date":"2013-05-24T08:57:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T12:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2014-07-21T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T14:08:09","slug":"teach-me-to-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/teach-me-to-pray\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach Me to Pray"},"content":{"rendered":"

God has instructed His people to pray for many reasons. The most common reason that people pray is to present their requests to God. The biggest collection of prayers in the Scriptures\u2014The Psalms\u2014however, have requests that don\u2019t precisely correspond to those of modern Christianity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead of prayers for the alleviation of sickness of a family member, the Psalmist often prays for alleviation of injustice. Instead of prayers for good jobs in a thriving economy the Psalmist is given to longing for righteousness and equity to prevail. Instead of prayers asking God for blessings upon a personal project, the Psalmist desires that all the nations behold the glory of God.<\/p>\n

To what can these differences be attributed? Didn\u2019t the Psalmist care about a sick relative? Didn\u2019t he have people in his midst who didn\u2019t have good jobs? Isn\u2019t there a personal project of the Psalmist that was not going well? The Psalmist had all of these issues just like the rest of humanity. However, all of these issues are just symptomatic of the larger issue of a creation subjected to the destructive reign of the kingdom of man and not the Kingdom of God. The Psalmist is longing for God\u2019s righteous rule upon the earth. Remember Jesus\u2019 words, \u201cThy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven?\u201d<\/p>\n

The prayer to have God\u2019s \u201cwill be done on earth\u201d means that God\u2019s will is not performed by mankind routinely. When God\u2019s righteous will is rebelled against by man, then each of us faces the disoriented realization of this world being profoundly broken.<\/p>\n

Many of the Psalmist\u2019s prayers reflect this \u201cdisorientation\u201d experienced when the world seems inverted\u2014when righteousness is absent and wickedness is flourishing, when the kingdom of wicked men seems to be taking root and God\u2019s rule seems to be withering.<\/p>\n

The book of Psalms is largely given to King David\u2019s psalms\/prayers. God had promised David that he would be God\u2019s chosen king over God\u2019s kingdom (see Psalm 2) and all the nations would submit to God\u2019s \u201cson,\u201d \u201canointed one,\u201d \u201cking\u201d\u2014i.e. David (yes a foreshadowing of Christ). But the subsequent Psalm (3) shows David on the run from his adversaries \u2014 not as a victorious reigning king. David finds himself having to fight for perspective since God\u2019s promises did not happen in the exact way that David thought they should. David had to undergo a time of suffering and humiliation before his exaltation\/vindication and before God\u2019s rule was to be established.<\/p>\n

David\u2019s prayers were his own moment by moment striving to submit himself to God\u2019s plan to allow the righteous to suffer for a season and the wicked to prosper for a season, until God would act to show everything for what it really was\u2014 the righteous purified through their suffering, confirmed in their righteousness and vindicated in front of all, the wicked allowed to run in their way until it implodes for all to see, and God shown to be the ultimate Sovereign King in history ruling over all.<\/p>\n

Thus, for the servant of God, we ask God to teach us to pray amidst the disorientations of this world: \u201c’Thy will be done,’ but soon, God, ‘Thy kingdom come so that thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God has instructed His people to pray for many reasons. The most common reason that people pray is to present their requests to God. The biggest collection of prayers in the Scriptures\u2014The Psalms\u2014however, have requests that don\u2019t precisely correspond to those of modern Christianity. 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