Prayer is the invocation of magic in our lives, it can be earth magic from Adam, or the abundant magic that flows from Yah and gives us life.

Firstly, we can pray for anything, including that Mercedes Benz, Yah puts no restrictions on what we pray for, He just might not grant it.    I once heard a Sunday school teacher telling the children that they must not pray for themselves, he was wrong, prayer is asking for magic, and we can trust Yah with our prayers as long as we pray in private.

Public prayer is not a normal part of our dialogue with Yah, and is an obvious means of virtue signalling.   We should be discussing our deepest needs, wants and desires with Yah, not publicly invoking earth magic.

To pray, we go into our private place, we humble ourselves before Yah and seek his face.   Then if we are ‘righteous’ according to His standards, he hears our prayers.

We don’t tell Yah what to do, we just tell him what we want, He will decide the how.   It is not humility when we give Yah commandments and instructions.

Yah is not a man and does not need to advertise his services, he makes private deals with us to do magic in our lives (or not).

We need to approach His gates with prayer, with joy, with thanksgiving, He is going to do the great work, not us.    We need to seek His face, get His attention, we do this by humility, prayer and righteousness (keeping His Torah and His commandments).   It is like being in grade school again, we get the teacher’s attention by following a protocol, usually by raising our hand, not by bellowing out in a disruptive manner, and when the teacher is ready, she will listen to us.

Being humble in prayer is about obedience rather than making demands, ask and it shall be given, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened.

Please Father, If it is approved, may this blog entry be read by all and sundry and give a blessing to those who read it….