How Lord Jesus Prayed – Unveil His Name

How Lord Jesus Prayed?

When we learn something, I think it is best to learn from the best. Now, who could be the best to learn from about prayer than Lord Jesus Who is the Son of God?

How to Start the Prayer?

Like a friend talking to a friend, or like a child to a good father. .

Addressing God, Father

I believe this is how Christ Jesus was teaching us to pray as well. He taught the disciples to start first addressing and acknowledging God as our “Father”. Since it is most likely that Lord Jesus spoke to the disciples and the hearers in Aramaic in those days, if we check the meaning of the work Father in Aramaic which is “Abwoon” is very similar to the meaning of “Abba”, Hebrew word for Father. Gathering the meaning from different sources, it seems it is like a small child addressing father, much like “daddy” in English word, or word used when calling someone very close or dear.

So when we pray we just need to communicate like we communicate with each other. It is basically as simple as that and we do not need to complicate it.

“I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants. – Matt 11:25~26,
“Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done” – Luke 22:42 (Matt 26:39)
“Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” – Luke 23:34
“Father, I thank You that You have heard Me” – John 11:41
“Father, glorify Your Name…” – John 12:28,

Speaking as Son to a Father, as Friend to Friend

We can see that Lord Jesus did not use fancy words when He prayed. He just talked to Father God as we would talk to one another.

This is not only when it comes to Lord Jesus’s prayer to Father God. Neither is it found only in the New Testament. Sometimes we separate the Old and the New testament too much until we make it sound like God is totally different from the Old and New Testament, or God has changed.

But many scripture shows that this is not so correct. God does not change but remains the same. As great, mighty and perfect He was before, so He is today and forever.

Malachi 3:6, For I am the LORD, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.
Hebrew 13:8, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

We see many old testament people of God prayed or spoke to God in a similar way. Especially for those who were close to God. The more we get to know God, the more we discover God wants us to approach us and talk to Him as friend to friend.

Among many who had such a close relationship with God is Abraham, whom God called “My friend”. It was not Abraham or someone else, but it was God Himself said so.

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham My friend” – Isaiah 41:8 (WEB)

How would you like to be called a friend of God, the Almighty?

Others include Moses, whom God said He speak to him face to face, and Enoch, who walked with God and he was not

So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. – Exodus 33:11 (NKJV)
My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house. I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. – Numbers 12:8 (BSB)

Of course, we still need to be seriously aware that God is God. We need always be in Fear of God and in utter reverence for God. Not taking the grace and mercy of God for granted.

Just as any good father desires to talk to his beloved child and to hear from the child, so it is with our Heavenly Father. Getting to know God is not difficult. We are created in His likeness and in His image. If we are to just consider how a good, loving natural father would be toward his child we can get a glimpse of how God would be towards us.

In the Beginning

I believe understanding what it was like at the beginning will give us a good perspective of how our walk with God was supposed to be.

So what was it like originally, when God created man? Because the world and our general relationship with God is just as what we see today, we have the wrong concept that this was what it was like at the start and what it will be like.

However, God tells us through the bible that it was nothing like how it was created to be. Apart from all the chaos of the current world, sicknesses, environmental issues, wars, fighting, and turmoils, the communication between God and us itself is completely different from what we could even imagine.

We see that first God speaks to them, guides them (the first man Adam, Genesis 2:16) and leads them, even bringing animals so that man can give them names.
But more than these, I find the closeness that God had with Adam is shown when Adam recognised even the sound of God coming near. Probably the sound of the footsteps of God. This shows that Adam was so familiar with the sound of God coming that he was sure it was God and not any animal or anything else.

God and men communicated

Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” He said, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid – Genesis 3:9~ (NASB)

God and Adam spoke with one another
God called for Adam, and Adam answered and replied God
1. Adam could hear God, and see God.
  God This is also true for Abel and Cain
God and Adam met many times
Adam recognized the sound of God coming near. He must have been so familiar, which means God came often and met with Adam.
God told Adam to name the animals that God created, and told him to look after
1. Genesis 2:19, Lord God formed every animal … and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

I reckon this shows how close God and men were and I believe it shows how we were meant to be.

Relationship
- Close to one another
Communicating
- Talking with one another, in continual fellowship
Partnership
- Working out together. God letting Adam name the animals, and telling him to look after, care for (tender) and protect what God has built.

I believe these are probably one of the most important points that we need to know about prayer, and always have in our heart. That God loves us and His plan right from the first place when He created us, was to have close friendship and communication, as well as accomplishing things together in partnership.