OK here’s the blog. I’m just fussing with this talk to text. But every time I start fussing I’m also saying, Our father. This may cause some to put their palm to their forehead I don’t know. The Our Father? I have two versions of it on a CD. After I became aware, alright check that. What do I really mean. Well, It’s not such a long story. Just remember there is an experience. That’s what I’m talking about. So I’ve written since 1970 and earlier. My first attempt at a song was when I was 12. It just popped out of my head when I was in the backseat of my dad’s car with my cousin. It caused him to giggle. I was always fascinated by songwriters. I told my friends when I was 17 I wanted to be a songwriter. I was a little drunk. We were partying down in my parents house while they were gone. Raided the liquor cabinet. They said man you can’t do that. They were just as in awe of these songwriters as I was. Where does this music come from? Do you know that in the old testament there is an account of a battle. Jehoshaphat is leading his troops into battle. God is with him. Jehoshaphat is leaning on God for victory. The strategy he comes up with is to send the singers up to the front. In front of Jehoshaphat‘s army. The singers will be the front line. I don’t even know if they had weapons. If they did they didn’t use them. They just sang praises to the Lord. They just stood there and sang. 2 Chronicles 20:21 I don’t study the Bible a lot. I don’t search the Scriptures. But I have in the past. I did not find the scripture through a program of study, or anything like that. I was just sitting in church one day and I think the preacher was preaching on something else or just faintly mentioned this battle. There are other comments on it around the internet. Some are puzzled by it. They don’t get it. They don’t know what to do with it. It is useful to me this scripture as a point of reference. At least I have one right? And it’s scriptural. So what are you going to do with it. Keep calling me crazy? Well maybe I am but that’s not the point. The point is what I’m pointing to. I’m pointing to the Lord’s Prayer. I’m pointing out this prayer. I’m holding it up as an example. As a way. As something that has such importance that we should stop diminishing it and ignoring Jesus did not speak these words to be ignored. If you’re the leader of a group And your followers come to you and they ask you a question, and you stop what you’re doing, And you say to them OK here’s your answer here’s the answer to your question. And you tell them exactly what to do in answer to their question, “how do we pray”? You say, “pray thus”: Our Father: And you’re one of the followers, what do you do? Do you roll your eyes? Do you say to yourself oh that prayer? You really want us to say that prayer? Is that your reaction when Jesus is talking to you telling you what to do? I seriously doubt that is your response. So why is it your response now? I had one lady even told me oh that’s not for today. Another man writes a book about this amazing prayer and says in his introduction, “we are not supposed to repeat this prayer.” We are supposed to hoof it and come up with something else. What else exactly. Oh you know, just wing it. That way God will know your sincere. Not just mouthing some prayer. About things in prayer? OK. You’re going to go off into your own devices and wing it, and according to what you come up with on the spur of the moment, from your own flawed consciousness, your own mind, something you just made up on the fly, you’re going to present this to God, as the preferred alternative to the Lords Prayer. All I can say to that is, nice try Satan. Thanks for trying to get me to go off into the wilderness in the mish mash of my own thoughts, reject the instructions of my master and expend my energy to hopefully come up with a prayer just as good as the one I’ve been told to pray. Maybe a little better. Now who’s the one who has his palm to his forehead? So if you want to cause your master some consternation go ahead and do your thing. It’s not that you haven’t done your thing all the while on this journey and it’s always gotten you into trouble. Maybe this time it will be different. Maybe you in all your flawed humanity and flailing around, will come up with the right words, the ones that will be superior or at least adequately approximate the quality of the Ones that have been handed to you on a silver platter with a simple set of instructions: Pray thus. Pray this. https://youtu.be/sQy-ox_ZT5Q

The Prayer

OK here’s the blog. I’m just fussing with this talk to text. But every time I start fussing I’m also saying, Our father.

This may cause some to put their palm to their forehead I don’t know. The Our Father?

I have two versions of it on a CD. After I became aware, alright check that. What do I really mean. Well,

It’s not such a long story. Just remember there is an experience. That’s what I’m talking about.

So I’ve written since 1970 and earlier. My first attempt at a song was when I was 12. It just popped out of my head when I was in the backseat of my dad’s car with my cousin. It caused him to giggle.

I was always fascinated by songwriters. I told my friends when I was 17 I wanted to be a songwriter. I was a little drunk. We were partying down in my parents house while they were gone. Raided the liquor cabinet.



They said man you can’t do that.

They were just as in awe of these songwriters as I was. Where does this music come from?

Do you know that in the old testament there is an account of a battle. Jehoshaphat is leading his troops into battle. God is with him. Jehoshaphat is leaning on God for victory. The strategy he comes up with is to send the singers up to the front. In front of Jehoshaphat‘s army. The singers will be the front line. I don’t even know if they had weapons. If they did they didn’t use them. They just sang praises to the Lord. They just stood there and sang.

2 Chronicles 20:21

I don’t study the Bible a lot. I don’t search the Scriptures.

But I have in the past.

I did not find the scripture through a program of study, or anything like that. I was just sitting in church one day and I think the preacher was preaching on something else or just faintly mentioned this battle.

There are other comments on it around the internet. Some are puzzled by it. They don’t get it. They don’t know what to do with it.

It is useful to me this scripture as a point of reference. At least I have one right? And it’s scriptural. So what are you going to do with it. Keep calling me crazy?

Well maybe I am but that’s not the point. The point is what I’m pointing to. I’m pointing to the Lord’s Prayer. I’m pointing out this prayer. I’m holding it up as an example. As a way. As something that has such importance that we should stop diminishing it and ignoring Jesus did not speak these words to be ignored.

If you’re the leader of a group And your followers come to you and they ask you a question, and you stop what you’re doing, And you say to them OK here’s your answer here’s the answer to your question. And you tell them exactly what to do in answer to their question, “how do we pray”? You say, “pray thus”:
Our Father:

And you’re one of the followers, what do you do? Do you roll your eyes? Do you say to yourself oh that prayer? You really want us to say that prayer?

Is that your reaction when Jesus is talking to you telling you what to do? I seriously doubt that is your response. So why is it your response now?

I had one lady even told me oh that’s not for today. Another man writes a book about this amazing prayer and says in his introduction, “we are not supposed to repeat this prayer.” We are supposed to hoof it and come up with something else. What else exactly. Oh you know, just wing it. That way God will know your sincere. Not just mouthing some prayer. About things in prayer? OK. You’re going to go off into your own devices and wing it, and according to what you come up with on the spur of the moment, from your own flawed consciousness, your own mind, something you just made up on the fly, you’re going to present this to God, as the preferred alternative to the Lords Prayer.

All I can say to that is, nice try Satan.

Thanks for trying to get me to go off into the wilderness in the mish mash of my own thoughts, reject the instructions of my master and expend my energy to hopefully come up with a prayer just as good as the one I’ve been told to pray. Maybe a little better.

Now who’s the one who has his palm to his forehead?

So if you want to cause your master some consternation go ahead and do your thing. It’s not that you haven’t done your thing all the while on this journey and it’s always gotten you into trouble. Maybe this time it will be different. Maybe you in all your flawed humanity and flailing around, will come up with the right words,

the ones that will be superior or at least adequately approximate the quality of the Ones that have been handed to you on a silver platter with a simple set of instructions: Pray thus. Pray this.


https://youtu.be/sQy-ox_ZT5Q

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