Pray: Awake & Align. Don't Beg
Scripture Reading
Matthew 6:5-8 [NLT]
“When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I tell you the truth, that is all the reward they will ever get. But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.“When you pray, don’t babble on and on as the Gentiles do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him!
Introductory Remarks:
After Easter, we do not stop walking with Jesus.
We keep walking with him.
We keep listening to him.
We keep answering his call.
And in this season, Jesus is still calling us to pray.
But the call to prayer is deeper than saying more words, repeating more phrases, or only turning to God in crisis. Jesus shows us that prayer is a way of being. Prayer is consciousness. Prayer is communion. Prayer is inner alignment with God. Prayer is living from the awareness that God is present, active, and expressing in us.
Jesus did not merely pause sometimes to pray. He lived prayerfully. He lived out of a dominant awareness: “The Father and I are one.” That awareness shaped every response, every choice, every miracle, every act of love, every act of surrender. Even in pressure, pain, opposition, and misunderstanding, Jesus kept returning to union, trust, surrender, and divine purpose.
Major Points of the Lesson:
Prayer begins with the consciousness you live in. Jesus lived from oneness with the Father.
Every repeated thought becomes a form of prayer. Your dominant inner conversation shapes your life.
Real prayer is choosing divine consciousness in every circumstance. Like Jesus, we must return again and again to truth, trust, and union.
Quote:
Our Father, who is everywhere.
Your name is sacred.
Your kingdom is come;
Your will is throughout the earth
Even as it is throughout the universe
You provide us bread for our needs from day to day
You forgive us our offenses
Even as we forgive our offenders
And you let us not enter into materialism:
But you separate us from error
Because yours are the kingdom, the power
And the song and praise
From all ages
Throughout all ages.
We seal this prayer in faith trust and truth.
Translation of the Lord's Prayer from the language Jesus spoke, ancient Aramaic, by Rocco Errico at Christ Universal Temple, Chicago, (March 28, 1982).
ASSIGNMENT:
Repeat the prayer above as taught by Jesus, the Christ, our wayshower, whenever you need to. Remain open and receptive and ask for the deeper meaning of the prayer to be revealed to you. Journal your insights for 7 days.