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TEACH US TO PRAY

 

 

It is ONE English word, “PRAY”, but translated from 7 different Greek words. 

 

1.     deesis: – heart-felt petition, arising out of a sense of lack, want, and deep personal need   From deomai (see next word)

[Translated prayer, request, supplication]

 

2.     deomai:- (root: deo, to be in want, lack) strictly, to beg, as binding oneself in a specific, felt, urgent need. 

[Translated: beseech, make a request, petition]

 

3.     enteuxis:- to strike or hit the mark.(bull’s eye)  properly, Spirit directed intervention.

Intercession centered in waiting upon the Lord to learn what hits the mark of His will

[Translated: intercession, supplication, petition, prayer]

 

4.     eroteo:- to desire or request a favor. 

[Translated:  ask, beseech, desire, intreat, pray]

 

5.     parakaleo:- to invite or call near, invoke by imploration. 

[Translated:  beseech, call for, comfort, desire,  give exhortation, intreat, pray]

 

6.     euchomai:- to wish. 

[Translated:  pray, will or wish]

 

7.     proseuchomai:- (from prós, "towards, exchange" and euchomai, "to wish, pray") – properly, to exchange wishes;  – literally, to interact with the Lord by switching human wishes (ideas) for His wishes (God birthed).

[Translated:  pray, make prayer]

 

 

Whereas the first 6 words are translated “PRAY” or “PRAYER” only a handful of times, “proseuchomai”, at over 100 times, is the main word used. 

 

 

Through communion with our Father we exchange our thoughts, ambitions, goals, desires, and will…

…laying down our life (psuche:- SOUL – mind, will, emotions)

FOR HIS!

 

 

IT IS THE GREAT EXCHANGE!

 

 

NOTE:  EVERY TIME Jesus went… 

off alone…

to the mountain…

into the desert…

apart…

or in the Garden of Gethsemane…

TO PRAY…

 

It is the word “proseuchomai”. 

 

 

WHY?

 

 

Jesus Christ knew He had to keep His Will aligned with the purpose and heart of the Father.  He had to keep His mind, will, and emotions – His SOUL – in subjection to the intent of the Spirit so He could show us as a “son of man” how to walk this Earth as a Son of God

 

This is the “knowledge” He had that “justified many.” (Isa53:11)

 

This is what He did in the garden when Yahweh, God “saw the travail of His SOUL and was satisfied” …where He “poured out His SOUL unto death” (Isa53:11,12)

 

Mtt26:38-45 suggests that for three hours He agonized, “NOT MY WILL… BUT YOURS BE DONE”

 

 

“…It pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: 

when thou shalt make HIS SOUL an offering for sin.” (Isa53:10)

 

 

Through intimate communion Jesus knew how to exchange His life for the life and purpose of the Father. 

 

 

So, He instructs…

 

 

Mtt26:41;Mk14:38

 “…watch and PRAY” (proseuchomai),

lest you enter into temptation…”

 

 

Lk18:1 “Men always ought to PRAY (proseuchomai) and faint not.”

 

 

Mk11:24 “Whatsoever things you desire when you PRAY (proseuchomai), believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.”

 

 

Mk11:25 “When you stand PRAYING (proseuchomai), forgive…”

 

 

The disciples knew PRAYER. 

They lived in a culture of PRAYER. 

But it was self-serving petitions begged as favors from a perceived aloof, reluctant God, blind to their “urgent” need. 

 

They had never encountered this transformative intimate communication they saw daily modeled in Jesus. 

 

 

So… as He was returning from one such encounter (Lk11:1-2),

they asked…

As do we…

 

 

LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY… “proseuchomai” 

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