Introduction 1 "Talking With God"

What is Prayer?
Prayer is just "talking with God."
This presupposes that you know God, whom you wish to talk with.
Few people are not willing to acknowledge God, that He is out there. But we all hear often in a hororific scene of people crying out to Him "Oh God!" or anything similar. Crying out to Him is an instinct we've been born with, and maybe that's what the Bible means when it says, Ge 1:27 "...in the image of God created he him(1)"

So when we cry out to God, let us realize that He's listening. He does listen if He created me and He is willing to hear me. When we realize He is willing to do this, we are then willing to consider some of the things He would have us understand about Him, about us, and about the kind of relationship we can have with Him.

1. Ge 1:27
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God
created he him;
male and female created he them.

So take heart, today, and start "talking" -- He's listening!

Introduction

Welcome to "My Prayer Notebook Guide"

I'd like to use this blog to explain better how to use a very useful tool for the life of anyone wishing to get to know the God of Creation(1) as revealed through the Bible and then how to communicate with Him.

He loves the world(2) and want everyone to know Him(3) and do His will(4). This tool should help greatly.

It is "A Prayer Notebook" to be used as a personally written journal for daily, and if not that, a regular and methodical(5) and purposeful way to communicate with the only true God(6), and as result of that, to worship Him "in spirit and in truth.(7)"

If you can accept the Bible as truth and the true revealer of God, you can have a personal and intimate relationship with Him. I will be using a version which I consider trustworthy for understanding, and I hope you can join me in this journey.

C. Pat Lanyon

Psalm 40:3

References

1 Ge 1:1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2 Joh 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

3 1Jo 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

4 Joh 7:17 "If anyone wants to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.

5 Mt 6:9 "In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

6 Joh 17:3 "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

7 Joh 4:23 "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

If you read the above scriptures as complete verses all the way through once, and then re-read the Green boldface only, you will begin to understand how God can speak to us through His word when the Bible's principles are emphasized. This is my attempt to "rightly divide the Word of Truth" (2 Tim 2:15)