About this episode

This episode explores the names of God as Father and the intimate relationship believers are invited to have with Him through prayer.

Jesus gives us a name to use for God. Matthew 6:9: “This, then, is how you should pray: Our Father…” Right there. The first two words of the prayer. Our Father. Before anything else… before the structure, before the requests, before the “give us” and “forgive us”… Jesus starts with identity and relationship. Our Father. That’s how He teaches us to approach God. He is our Father and we are his beloved daughter. Now here’s something really beautiful – It is believed Jesus originally spoke this in Aramaic, the everyday language of the people he was speaking to. The word would have been “Abun.” Later, when written in Greek, we see the word “Abba.” And these words “Abba” and “Abun” weren’t formal, distant titles. These were words a child would use for their father. Daddy. Papa. A word of closeness. A word of trust. A word of belonging. So when Jesus says, “This is how you should pray,” He is saying… come to God like this. Come as a child comes to a loving Father. Not distant. Not afraid. Not trying to impress. But close. Known. Loved. Now let me ask you…. Who is this God we pray to? Are we bothering Him with our requests? Are we even doing it right? Does the Creator of the…

People in this episode

Host: Pamela Crim

Topics covered

• prayer
• identity
• relationship with God
• spirituality
• trust
• belonging

Keywords

• God
• Father
• prayer
• Abun
• Abba
• spirituality
• relationship
• trust
• belonging

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Matthew 6:9, Philippians 4:6-7

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