WHOM SHOULD WE PRAY WITH THE SPIRIT?
In the name of God most Merciful and Beneficent.
Payer is the very important thing in one believer’s life. Because prayer is like talking directly with God. That is why every believer to resolve and to come out from his individual or personal problems or health problems or family problems he always pray to God with his spirit in submissive manner. Thus, we find many of the spiritual persons to have prayed to God with their spirit. Here what the very big question about which every spiritual person or believer should think over is that- Do we pray to that real God who is the Creator of this universe? Or do we pray to one whom we imagine to be God or to one as suggested by the now a days preachers? If we ask this same question to any Christian their immediate answer is- we are praying to the real God according to the Bible! And again if we question who is that real God whom you pray regularly so many Christians gives the reply as “we are praying Jesus!” who is the real God for us.
DID PAUL EVER PRAY TO JESUS WITH HIS SPIRIT BELIEVING HIM AS GOD?
Even though many of the denominations prevail in the Christianity and so many conflicts in between the beliefs among them, the common ideal person for all of them after Jesus is- St Paul. We can find to be the fourteen epistles written by Paul in such a great book as Bible. By this we can understand how much of the knowledgeable and great person Paul is. Now let us see such a knowledgeable person as Paul did pray to Jesus with his spirit in the following verses.
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit… - Romans 1:8
I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did. – 2 Timothy 1:3
So I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets… -Acts 24:14
For there stood by me this night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve…-Acts 27:23
Thus we find Paul to have always pray to God with his spirit and with pure conscience. Now what noteworthy in these two verses is that to which God Paul always did pray with his pure conscience and with his spirit submissively? Whether to Jehovah or to Jesus is the main question that we have to know the answer immediately. Now let us observe again some important points need to be examined closely as follows.
1). First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all. (Romans 1:8)
2). I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did (2 Timothy 1:3)
3). I worship the God of my fathers (Acts 24:14)
In the first verse we can see Paul to have thanked his God through Jesus Christ. But we cannot find him to be one thanked Jesus Christ believing him as God himself or incarnate of God. Who is that God whom Paul always thanked trough Jesus Christ in reality? We find the answer in the second and third verses in the above as-
“I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did”
“I worship the God of my fathers.”
According to these two parts of the Biblical verses Paul always used to thank and serve with his spirit and pure conscience to the God of his forefathers to mean as he always used to pray and serve with pure conscience to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To whom Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did pray with their pure conscience? Undoubtedly we can have the answer that they had always prayed with their pure conscience to Jehovah the creator of universe. But we cannot find them to have prayed Jesus or Holy Spirit just as the so many preachers of these days do.
WHAT FOR PAUL NEVER HAVE PRAYED JESUS WITH HIS SPIRIT?
If Jesus is one incarnate of God or God himself or shareholder in the Trinity as presumed by the present day’s preachers then Paul also would have believed so, then he would have prayed and served to Jesus with his pure conscience and spirit just as so many pastors do in now a days. But according to his routine practice that serving to God through Jesus Christ it can be well ascertained that Paul never thought slightly or he never doubted that Jesus might be Jehovah or Jesus was incarnate of God. If he were imagined so, could he ever have proclaim saying “I thank my God through Jesus Christ?” In case he believed that “Jesus is Jehovah” as imagined and preached by the present days’ preachers he could have proclaimed as “I thank my God Jesus Christ?” instead of saying as “I thank my God (Jevovah) through Jesus Christ?”
TO WHOM JESUS HAS ORDERED TO PARY?
According to the so far analysis of the Bible verses, we understand that Paul never have imagined Jesus as one incarnate of God and he never have prayed and thanked to Jesus but he thanked Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob through Jesus Christ submissively. Now the Question is to whom Jesus has ordered to pray? Did he order to pray him directly in capacity of God? Or did he order to pray that God whom he always pray in submissive manner? Let us see the answer for this Question in the following verses.
Jesus- You shall worship the Lord your God (Jehovah), and Him only you shall serve. – Matthew 4:10
Jesus- But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father (Jehovah) who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. – Matthews 6:6
What did Jesus teach in the above verses? Whether he ordered to pray him being in the status of God or he ordered to pray to Jehovah being in the status of the servant of God? Is the main point that we have to ponder over it very seriously.
WHY DID JESUS NOT TEACH TO PRAY HIM?
The appropriate answer for the question that- “why did Jesus not teach to pray him?” Is – he never have imagined about himself that he is God or the one incarnate of God as presumed by the present days preachers. The great proof for this is that the following verses to be examined carefully.
Now it came to pass in those days that he (Jesus) went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God (Jehovah). – Luke 6:12
Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, he (Jesus) went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed (to Jehovah). – Mark 1:35
According to the above verses whom Jesus did pray continuously all night on the mountain? And whom did he always pray in the mornings, having risen before daylight in a solitary places? Answer is to- Jehovah. Now according to the way shown by Jesus practically now to whom we have pray with our spirit and with our conscience? Whether to Jesus or to Jehovah. If Jesus were incarnate of God or one of the gods in Trinity as is being propagated by now a days preachers, is it possible to him pray to another one who is beyond to his person? Paul also give the witness that Jesus is one who always offering up prayers and supplications to Jehovah even in the difficulties with vehement cries and tears can be seen as follows.
…who, in the days of His flesh, when he (Jesus) had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him (Jehovah) who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear… - Hebrews 5:7
According to this it can be well understood that Paul never have imagined as “Jehovah has incarnated in form of Jesus therefore one should pray Jesus only in the status of God”. But he recognized Jesus as one who had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to God (Jehovah). Importantly even the contemporaries of Jesus also never have a minute doubt towards him that he may be God or one incarnate of God which fact we can see in the following verse.
Now Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask of God (Jehovah), God will give you. -John 11:21, 22
Thus not only Paul and Apostle but the followers of Jesus who have the staunch belief in him and get trained by him never thought about him that he might be the incarnate of Jehovah or he was God even when Jesus was present in their presence. But they have recognized him to be one servant of God who prays to Him. The then followers of Jesus and Apostle and Paul have followed the word of Jesus as it is, and they have prayed to only Jehovah as shown by Jesus and they have proclaimed that only Jehovah was God and no other god besides Him, and they neither prayed Jesus nor preached as “Jesus is only God or incarnate of God or one in triune” as against to the gospel of Jesus just as the so many preachers do in the present days Christianity.
According to the so far analysis we came to arrive at the conclusion that one should pray to God whom Jesus, Paul and Apostle have prayed with their sprit and pure conscience.
One should pray to Jehovah only with the sprit and pure conscience.
just as how Jesus was praying continuously all the night and always in the mornings having risen before the day light or one can pray to Him going into the room and shutting the doors as suggested by Jesus. But one who practices as against to the way shown by Jesus and Paul it becomes quite contradictory the Holy Bible. So May God give the knowledge to understand these points and make us such a great believers of Jesus to pray Jehovah only. –Amen.
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