How do I Pray Correctly?

[Posted March 28, 2025]

Luk 11:1  And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Luk 11:2  And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
Luk 11:3  Give us day by day our daily bread.
Luk 11:4  And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

This is not a prayer, rather it is Christ’s instructions to His disciples on how they ought to pray. Therefore this is an outline of how we ought to approach our heavenly Father. Every prayer we pray should always include the words… “Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth”. If we are granted the faith to truly believe that God is “working all things after the counsel of His own will” then we will be forced to acknowledge that whatever occurs in our lives day by day is the Lord’s answer to our prayer to that moment.

Luk 18:1  And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Luk 18:2  Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:
Luk 18:3  And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.
Luk 18:4  And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
Luk 18:5  Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Luk 18:6  And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.
Luk 18:7  And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Luk 18:8  I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

Heb 9:19  For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
Heb 9:20  Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Heb 9:21  Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
Heb 9:22  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Heb 9:23  It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves [our hearts and our minds] with better sacrifices than these.
Heb 9:24  For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself [into us], now to appear in the presence of God for us:  

When we begin our prayers with the words… ‘Our Father which art in heaven’ we are acknowledging that He dwells within us and that He is working all things after the counsel of His own will, as we are informed in: 

Eph 1:9  Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Eph 1:10  That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:  

If we acknowledge God as our heavenly Father and we know that ‘heaven’ is the realm of the spirit in which we dwell with Christ and His Father, then we will indeed ‘hallow’ His name. ‘Hallowed’ is the verb form of ‘holy’ and has the same Greek root which is the Greek adjective ‘hagios‘ as in ‘hagios pneuma‘, translated as ‘holy (G40, ‘hagios’, “most holy thing”) spirit’ (G4151, ‘pneuma’).

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.