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Lord, teach me
By admin | June 24, 2009
I believe that our success in life, business and career is directly related to our relationship with God. Success (true biblical success) is linked to God. That’s why, if you have been a subscriber or reader of mine for a while, you would have realised that I apply biblical truths to the business and work environment.
This week’s post is therefore an extension of this concept. Lord, teach me. Teach me what I hear you say? The answer is teach me …’whatever I need but I am not experiencing’. Let me explain.
The disciples came to Jesus (Luke 11:1) and asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. This is a strange request. By this time, the disciples had seen Jesus do mighty miracles, teach them extensively through the parables, and witnessed His prayer life and communion with the Father etc. They had a close relationship with Jesus. So they could be forgiven if they had thought that they knew how to do all these things, after all, they had a close relationship with Jesus BUT we know that ‘knowing’ is very different from ‘experiencing’. They did not assume that they knew how to pray. They humbled themselves and asked Jesus to teach them.
Recently, I asked God to teach me how to praise and worship Him. That might be a strange request, particularly as this is an area that the church has grown in for the last decade , but I decided not to assume.
My prayer style or my praise and worship style has to be the style that God expects from me. I believe that we all need to keep on coming to God and asking Him to teach us to run our Christian businesses, love our work colleagues, tender for contracts, conduct business meetings, look after our customers etc, or whatever your specific need is.
To teach means to ask someone to show us the way to explain things to us, so that we can understand and begin to apply these concepts. Spiritual teaching however, goes beyond that. With spiritual teaching, we not only learn the way to apply these concepts but we also have divine enablement to enable us to walk in and experience biblical truths in our lives.
Asking to be taught is a way of humility on our part and also a sign of dependence on God. We spend so much time and money on things that we believe would make us successful and that has its place but we also need God to teach us how to live Godly lives. I know that the bible teaches us on how to live Godly lives, but we need to go beyond the ‘knowledge’ to ‘experience’ the bible.
When the disciples asked Jesus to show them how to pray, He was only too happy to help them. Perhaps, there are areas in your lives where you need the Lord to teach you or perhaps there are areas where things are not quite working, despite your best efforts. Why not ask Him to teach you today. He is also willing to answer our prayers as we ask ‘Lord, teach me’.
Once again, than you for the opportunity to share with you this week. Until I appear again in your inbox, stay blessed
Ola
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