Category Archives: Let Us Pray

As much as I believe in this particular series, I have decided to cease posting on this topic for now. My time away from Oboedire during the holidays has reinforced my feeling that “less is more.”  So, Thursdays will no … Continue reading →

Read:  Genesis 18 I doubt we will ever be able to describe how prayer is “influential” with respect to God’s actions on the earth.  Sometimes we appear to see a quick and clear connection between our prayers and God’s actions.  … Continue reading →

Read: Genesis 17 Almost the entirety of this chapter is an extended prayer conversation between God and Abram.  It is the conversation which established “signs” of the Covenant which God wanted to initiate in and through Abram. The first sign … Continue reading →

Read:  Genesis 16 The drama of this chapter is both strange and understandable.  The story starts out good enough as Sarai gives Hagar to Abram so that he may have a son to carry on the Covenant line.  But when … Continue reading →

Read:  Genesis 15 The whole chapter is a prayer, revealed to be essentially a conversation between Abram and God.  That’s an insight worth noting in and of itself—prayer is “conversation with God,” and as such, it is carried out using … Continue reading →

Read:  Genesis 12:7-8 Wherever Abram went, his first act was to build an altar.  This is the Bible’s way of teaching that the foundation for everything else is prayer. We tend to make it the capstone—the act in which we … Continue reading →

Even though the Fall is not reversed—even though sin remains and its consequences continue to wreak havoc on the earth—there is a noticeable return to prayer as conversation with God, like Adam and Eve had with God in the garden. … Continue reading →

When you’re studying prayer, you may find that some commentators place the beginning of prayer at Genesis 4:26, where it is written that people began to call on the name of the Lord. But as we have seen, people were … Continue reading →

Prayer as “walking and talking with God” is severely contaminated in the Fall.  In fact, the first two prayers which come after the Fall are prayers of blame (3:12-13) and justification (4:9). Adam tells God that what’s happened is all … Continue reading →

I had intended to move on into the Bible and begin looking at actual prayers, but as I re-read the opening chapters of Genesis, and last week’s post, I was prompted to “stay put” and continue our meditation on the … Continue reading →

The first prayer occurred in a garden, not a church.  It was done walking, not kneeling.  It was conversational, not liturgical.  It took place in and around Genesis 1:28 when God gave Adam and Eve their first assignment, and they … Continue reading →

Throughout the history of the Christian church, prayer has been viewed as the chief means of grace.  This is because the primary understanding of faith is that of a relationship between God and us.  Prayer is the means by which … Continue reading →