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[1] {teach us to pray}
This is the central N.T. passage on prayer. In the Sermon on the Mount
Christ had announced the new basis of prayer, viz.: relationship
# Mt 6:9,28-32
The believer is a child of God through the new birth
» See Note "Joh 3:3"
The clear revelation of this fact at once establishes the
reasonableness of prayer; a reasonableness against which the argument
from the apparent uniformity of natural law shatters itself.
God is more than a Creator, bringing a universe into being, and
establishing laws for it; more than a decree-maker determining future
events by an eternal fiat. Above all this is the divine family for whom
the universe with its laws exists
# Col 1:16-20 Heb 1:2 2:10,11 Ro 8:17
"When ye pray, say, Our Father." What God habitually does in the material
universe concerns the reverent investigator of that universe. What He may
do in His own family concerns Him, and them, and is matter for divine
promise and revelation. Science, which deals only with natural phenomena,
cannot intrude there
# 1Co 2:9
Christ's law of prayer may be thus summarized: (1) He grounds prayer upon
relationship, and reveals God as freely charging himself with all the
responsibilities, as His heart glows with all the affections of a Father
toward all who believe on Jesus Christ
# Mt 6:25,32 7:9-11
Prayer, therefore, is a child's petition to an all-wise, all-loving, and
all-powerful, Father-God. (2) In the so-called Lord's prayer Christ
gives an incomparable model for all prayer. It teaches that right prayer
begins with worship; puts the interest of the kingdom before merely
personal interest; accepts beforehand the Father's will, whether to grant
or withhold; and petitions for present need, leaving the future to the
Father's care and love. Used as a form, the Lord's prayer is,
dispensationally, upon legal, not church ground; it is not a prayer in
the name of Christ (cf)
# Joh 14:13,14 16:24
and it makes human forgiveness, as under the law it must, the condition
of divine forgiveness; and order which grace exactly reverses (cf)
# Eph 4:32
(3) Prayer is to be definite
# Lu 11:5,6
and, (4) importunate, that is undiscouraged by delayed answers.
02274
[1] {give}
It is evident that none of the disciples, with the possible exception of
Mary of Bethany, asked for the Spirit in the faith of this promise. It
was a new and staggering thing to a Jew that, in advance of the
fulfilment of
# Joe 2:28,29
all might receive the Spirit. Mary alone of the disciples understood
Christ's repeated declaration concerning His own death and resurrection
# Joh 12:3-7
Save Mary, not one of the disciples but Peter, and he only in the great
confession
# Mt 16:16
manifested a spark of spiritual intelligence till after the resurrection
of Christ and the impartation of the Spirit
# Joh 20:22 Ac 2:2-4
To go back to the promise of
# Lu 11:13
is to forget Pentecost, and to ignore the truth that now every believer
has the indwelling Spirit
# Ro 8:9,15 1Co 6:19 Ga 4:6 1Jo 2:20,27
» See Note "Ac 2:4"