You may ask why is this important, given all the turmoil we face in the world today? Is this just an academic exercise in the Word?
Our Messiah directed us to pray that our Father’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven. This is not only a privilege to intercede but our responsibility to do so. What other conduit has He determined but those who look to Him, praying His Word back to Him? We can’t look in the face of evil and still prevail in prayer without that intimate relationship with Messiah. We can’t prevail until we are walking in the unity He desires for us.
I say it is important because the Word says it is so. While it IS true that we are to come to our God ‘just as I am” it is also true that He calls us up, through the sanctification process, to learn to be more like Him….to have an intimate relationship with Him, in which we are known by Him, not just that we claim to know Him. Yeshua commented on this disparity, and quoted the prophet, Isaiah.
Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near ...
