PRaP 10-4-2005

"God Answers Knee Mail"

What is our communication with God? Well prayer of course. I love the
shirts that have the picture of the blue jeans with holes in the knees.
What a statement that is. There is prayers throughout the Bible from every
person in it. Even Jesus Himself prayed to His Father in heaven. Over
and over again we read how Jesus went to a solitary place to pray. There
are 365 references to the word pray in the NIV Bible and 199 of them are in
the Old Testament and 166 in the new. There are 16 in Matthew alone.
Matthew 6:5 "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they
love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be
seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.
" Matthew 6:6 "But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and
pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done
in secret, will reward you." Matthew 6:7 "And when you pray, do not keep
on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their
many words." Matthew 14:23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a
mountainside by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,.
These are just a few. I challenge you to go to Bible Gateway and put in
the keyword pray and read some of the prayers and how God answered the
prayers. God answered some of my knee mail yesterday. How about yours?

PRaP go to http://www.biblegateway.com and put in keyword pray.