Dear Friends

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. The
so-called Lord's prayer, or "Our Father," is a prayer pattern. When
the disciples asked Yeshua to teach them how to pray, He tells them,
and us, to pray "after this manner." He gives us a PRAYER PATTERN, a
prayer attitude, the NECESSITIES, and the priorities in prayer. He
gives us the whole concept of prayer; He gives us not so much the
words, but rather the spirit, or attitude, and the steps of right,
proper, powerful, God glorifying prayer, which the Father delights
to hear.

We MUST come in the Name of Jesus, in the Name of Yeshua. If we are
attempting to come to the Father in any other Name, or authority, it
is a waste of time and breath. First, it must start with Our Father.
Are we born again? Are we Israel, in truth and reality? Are we part
of the family of God, by THE Atonement Redemption Price, by the
Spirit of Adoption, having the privilege to call THE Father of The
Lord Jesus Christ, Our Father?

I always want to ask those who deny the biblical doctrine of the
Trinity - To whom did Jesus pray? I do not believe that Jesus was a
ventriloquist, when the voice of the Father was heard from heaven at
John's baptism and the transfiguration. I ask them who is seated at
the Father's right hand, and who is seated at the left hand of
Jesus? We should KNOW that it was the will of THE Father, to send
Yeshua, to make the ONLY Atonement that could give us the GREAT most
HIGHLY PRIVILEGED way in which anyone could address God. Only the
Son of God, had such privilege, and could make the way that we might
be able to call His Father, Our Father. There is NO HIGHER privilege
than to be able to Know God as Our Father.

Just the words "Our Father," speaks of a MOST NECESSARY and VITAL
relationship in prayer. Without such relationship, I would question
why any prayer, other than a prayer of repentance, or request for
wisdom, might be heard in heaven, by the God who IS Almighty, and
can do whatever would seem impossible. This GREATEST PRIVILEGED name
of God in all of the realm of PRAYER, can NOT be overemphasized. It
is sad how few, and how seldom, people consider HOW GREAT, even
beyond understanding, is this privilege that we may address God as
our Father. What AWESOME privilege that He views us as His children,
that Yeshua is not ashamed to call us His brothers and sisters. What
AWESOME privilege that we may call God Our Father. He has to be our
Father. God never deals with us in a cold relationship. There has to
be something more than that. There has to be a love relationship, a
knowledge of who He is, for indeed God IS Love.

If God is going to lead me through places that are beyond the
understanding capability of my mind, beyond my feelings, then this
UNDERSTANDING that He IS Our Father, and Jesus is our Big Brother,
the Firstborn and only Begotten Son of God, is essential. We come to
OUR Father in the Name of Yeshua. That privilege and even BOLDNESS
of approach to God as our Father, can ONLY come in that way, through
Yeshua, by His Spirit. THAT MOST ESSENTIAL POSITION and
understanding, that He is Our Father, and by the Spirit of Adoption,
by the Redemption payment of Yeshua's blood, IS ESSENTIAL. That
essential RELATIONSHIP understanding in any other prayer, other than
the prayer of REPENTANCE, is absolutely necessary to have such
highly privileged bold access to God as Our Father. There are two
things we need to KNOW about God; first, that He loves us, and
second, that He understands us.

Glory to God, He is faithful, He is true, He is our Father. Sadly
many religious spirit bound people go all through life only
understanding in their mind, and it never ever filters down to their
heart. Sadly, this heart level love relationship never becomes
something that upholds, strengthens, and sustains them. This
understanding of the love relationship to our Father, never gives
the LIGHT that is so needed in the darkest hours of our life's
circumstances, in our limitations, in our greatest battles, our
greatest failures, and greatest weaknesses and sufferings in this
life in these bodies of corruptible flesh.

We must see past the natural. We must have spiritual vision. There
is a spiritual dynamic that drives anything which we see manifest in
the physical. We MUST have access to the third heaven throne, where
Yeshua is seated at THE Father's right hand. Beyond any hard or
difficult problem or circumstance, we need to see the spiritual.
Beyond whatever the need, beyond whatever the lack, beyond whatever
the problem, we need to see the spiritual. Can we see that there is
a spiritual reason for our circumstance?

IT IS FINISHED – God said so. We should KNOW that the kingdoms of
this world, are become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ,
but this is at the END. We seek to, and we MUST, ENDURE to the END.
Until the END, until immediately AFTER the Great Tribulation, we
know the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of the enemy are warring.
There is no other real seat of power. It is either God or the enemy.

"Our Father which art in Heaven." Did you ever think Our Father
which art in Heaven, just meant He is a Heavenly Father, He is up
above, and He has a realm of power which is above earth? Though
still ashamed to admit it, now I do give thanks to God, that I KNOW
better. Now, I know there is something much more than that. I have
come to know through many circumstances, through tremendous
pressures, the enormous distance that there is between earth and
God's third heaven. God's third heaven, where Yeshua is seated at
the Fathers right hand, is BEYOND the farthest reaches of outer
space. I KNOW that I can travel that IMPOSSIBLE, beyond imagination,
enormous distance. I know I must get to that physically IMPOSSIBLY
DISTANT place, to witness results only possible by the manifestation
of God's exceeding great ALMIGHTY POWER. Right understanding of what
the Lord taught in the "Our Father" model prayer makes that
impossible distant place accessible in an INSTANT.

THE BLOCK IS UNFORGIVENESS. THE BOTTOM LINE IS UNDERSTANDING THAT
UNFORGIVENESS IS THE UNFORGIVABLE SIN. DO WE REALLY WANT GOD TO
FORGIVE US IN THE SAME WAY WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO OFFEND AND TRESPASS
AGAINST US?

We will look more at this model prayer pattern, but I can go no
farther now than to tell you that BOTTOM LINE. That we simply must
understand. UNFORGIVENESS blocks that access to the throne where
Yeshua sits at The Father's right hand.

The most godly thing any human being can do is to Forgive. It is NOT
optional. The walk, and life IN Christ, is IN Forgiveness. We are
called to walk in forgiveness. It is IMPOSSIBLE to walk in
Forgiveness and Unforgiveness at the same time. We MUST Forgive.
When we have received God's forgiveness, through the Atonement of
our Redeemer, the first person that we must forgive is ourselves. We
MUST ALSO KNOW that we MUST forgive all those who have trespassed,
or sinned. or offended against us. We MUST. Nothing will so
certainly break the POSITIONAL AUTHORITY that we have IN Messiah,
seated with Him, by His Spirit, in the third heaven, far above ALL
principality, powers, thrones, and dominions. There is an
unpardonable sin, that is different than the unforgivable sin of
UNFORGIVENESS.

Do we UNDERSTAND what God tells us in this verse - These be they who
separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. Yes, the Holy
Spirit put that capital "S" on Spirit in that verse as surely as we
should understand that self-sanctification is the broad religious
path to hell.