The Footladder:  Prayer

In the New Testament, Jesus demonstrates the important presence of prayer in His own life.  Jesus, at the request of His disciples taught them what to specifically say when praying, known as the Lord’s Prayer, Luke 11:1-4.

Jesus also assures them of the effectiveness of prayer, Luke 11:9-13.  At the most difficult moments of His life, when He is preparing to be arrested, filled with fear and distress, Jesus reaches for prayer to pull Him through the crisis, showing the need to pray not only once, but three times to gather the strength that God will deliver to Him, Mark 14:32-42.

God continues in the Footladder of Notes Divine to deliver specific instructions, encouraging prayer to bring us to Him in order to live out our lives under His support, guidance and direction.

56

In silence do you sit

Frame Me

Make of yourself

the Mind of Me

In incandescence lies

the truth of Me

In silence do you sit

The hereafter awaits

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  275

    Think not of mind despair

  of twists and turns

  mediated not by Spirit heart

  Submit

  submit

  thy soul eternal

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  281

  Hold on to Me

  tortured man

  Magnificent the sight you'll see

  When all is gone

  correction done

  you gain the sight of Me

335

  Think not that I neglect you

  that hung back I choose to be

  Waylaid by mind asunder

  cast about thee for moment calm

  amidst call from Me

  Revived in hope

  turn to Me

  Receive in blessed state

  tranquility

371

  Welcome Me into thy house

  where belongeth Me

  Fulfilled are you through

the presence of Me

  When a'gloom in tears of moments lost

  call upon Me for thy sustenance

  Then will you find

  happiness at thy doorstep

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381

  Listed for dead are thee

  amidst the land of lives unfulfilled

  Seen not are you in heavenly domain

  Will thyself to meander no more

  but stay on course homeward bound

  Meet Me at the gate

  Make Me thy Guide

  that wills you

  to heaven's peace

  and alarm no more

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  437

  Empty out thy mind

  beloved

  of thoughts made of thee

  made meaningless

  Welcome Me in thy place

  Who makes of thee

  treasure trove

  of meaning sanguine

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