7 “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Pray then like this:
“Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be your name.1
10 your kingdom come,
Your will be done,2
On earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread,3
12 and forgive us our debts,
As we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.4
14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
One important fact, what these verses remind us is that prayer is not a verbal exercise but spiritual exercise. Otherwise, the words of lips and tongue are the physical or material activities and, when we look from the point of prayer, it will not reap spiritual crop. How many words and sentences we used or how much length our prayer has, doesn’t matter but how our non-verbal prayer is matter. Means how our inner being is matter; whether it can communicate with the supreme power or not? Again, it is the matter of secrete part, the invisible sphere, of human being. If we borrow some psychological idea, we can state, ‘how your subconscious mind is so you are’.
Otherwise we mustn’t pray with the parts or organs which interact with material world. We have to with some other part or organ that interacts with non material fact. To do so, when we pray we have to completely give up relaying on the organs that help us to interact with material or natural environment, then the other organ or part that communicate with the heavenly one will come to life. Means need a lot of experience to do so. Practice leads to perfection. According to verse 8, we should not believe that God doesn’t know anything unless we tell him. Means, prayer is mainly to mold our conscience and mentality. Not to inform our needs and desires to God. How is that? Let us look into that.
We have to believe, according to verse 9, that a supreme power exists and he deserves praise. According to verse 10 our mentality should be in such a way that everything should go in Godly or righteous way. We have to exists, so we need what needed to exist, means, be away from the mentality to make unrighteous gains, verse 11 remind us. Verse 12 molds our conscience to forgive. And the verse 13 molds our mentality not to fall in temptations and evil.
Prayer is the auto suggestion for this.
Means mentality of praying is important. We have to mold ourselves through prayer. Make change in ourselves, not in God, in such a way that God may accept us.
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