Our father who is in heaven

In one sense, every human is a child of God. We owe our very existence to him, we resemble him, and have albeit limited capacity to do good. Acts reads,. Our child-like relationship to our heavenly Father made possible by our faith in Jesus will grow in depth when we begin our prayers by meditating on our child-father relationship to God, using Bible verses like the ones below.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him. 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. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. So when you pray, start by relating to God as your heavenly Father; remember to come as his unconditionally loved child.

Your heavenly Father is present, cares for you, and wants you to experience the intimacy of relationship that Jesus has with him. Take a moment to pray for students, that they would experience this intimate relationship with God, our heavenly Father. Save us from the time of trial, and deliver us from evil.

For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. He is the Father of lights James He is the Father of spirits Heb. He is the Father of glory Eph. Yet at the same time, as we can see from the rest of the prayer, God is not a distant deity.

Donald W. Shriver, Jr. Evil has invaded the world, and the chief cause is…the human being. The term the Bible most often uses to describe our own evil is sin. Sadly, one of the most dreadful consequences of this condition is that God cannot be seen and enjoyed as he once was by our first parents in the Garden.

The good news of the gospel is that God devised a way for us to return to that unbroken fellowship. One day, we shall see him face to face. But for now things are dark and murky 1 Cor. Our Father is in heaven, which means at least in one sense, that he is not on earth.

So, where is heaven? Since the nineteenth century this term has become increasingly subjective, or just vague. Meant to give comfort, it lacks reality. And after the twentieth century, with its unprecedented destructiveness, heaven became nearly absent from most discourse.

Biblically, heaven can mean atmosphere around us. The rain and the snow comes down from heaven Isa. Here, and in so much of the New Testament, heaven refers to the dwelling place of God. To use theological terms, God is transcendent and immanent.

While it is best not to try and think of heaven primarily in spatial terms, the image of the tabernacle, or the temple, or the sanctuary, that is, a dwelling place, is often used to describe where God lives Heb. The most important consideration about heaven, in this sense, is the person who occupies it, and what effect the occupant has on us.

Jesus himself came down from heaven, and returned to it John ; Acts