There is so much church-instigated confusion regarding a simple thing like prayer.
Some churches pray repetitious phrases and mindless words.
Some use the time clock method, 2 minutes/ 15 minutes/ 1 hour etc.
Some pray hoping if they ask enough times that will get through.
Some depend on how many people they can enlist to help and agree in hope God will here somebody.
Some depend on the Pastor's prayer, others not so much.
Many don't know who to pray to, GOD, Jesus, saints, Mary, Mecca, Yahweh, Jehovah, I AM, Yeshua, Yahwuah, and a dozen more variants.
But in the Book of Acts, immediately following the four gospels, Jesus had ascended up, in his words,
to "MY GOD AND YOUR
GOD" Jn 20:17/ Acts 1:10, and they watched as he went up.
WHO did the disciples pray to, as they continued together in prayer as the narrative continued?
This is why we may learn from them and so I defer to ACTS for the facts.
Here the first prayer in Acts is:
Peter went on in Acts 2 to preach that "Jesus Christ of Nazareth, a MAN approved of God..... " was
They knew Jesus is not God, and this is shown by their prayer in Acts 4 as they prayed:
Acts 4: 24 And when they heard this, they lifted up their
voice
𝐭𝐨
𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡
𝐨𝐧𝐞
𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝
𝐚𝐧𝐝
𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝, “𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝,
𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮
𝐚𝐫𝐭
𝐆𝐨𝐝
𝐰𝐡𝐨
𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐭
𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞
𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧
𝐚𝐧𝐝
𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡
and the sea and all that is in them,
25 who by the mouth of Thy servant David had said, ‘Why did
the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? 26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the
rulers were gathered together
👉against the Lord
<i.e. GOD, vs. 24>,
🎯AND against HIS Christ.’
27 For truly against Thy
holy child Jesus, whom YOU have anointed,
both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, had
gathered together 28 to do whatsoever Thy hand and Thy counsel
determined before to be done.
29 And now, Lord, behold their threatening's,
and grant to Thy servants that with all boldness they may speak Thy Word, 30 by
stretching forth Thine hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done by
the name of 🎯Thy holy child Jesus.”
31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they
were assembled together;
and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.
Peter had days before preached CHRIST to the Jews, that Jesus was "a MAN approved of God". Acts 2:22. In Acts 13:38 and 17:31 they were still declaring Jesus to be a "man", and this was after his ascension TO God.
Does this sound like a prophecy of a man that is GOD?
Psalm 22:15-17 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue cleaves to My jaws; and 🎯YOU
have brought 🎯Me into the dust of
death.
16 For dogs have surrounded Me;
the assembly of the wicked have enclosed Me; they pierced My hands and My feet.
17 I can count all My bones; they look and stare upon Me.
Isaiah 53 is also quoted as a direct Messianic passage.
The subject of that prophecy is about "a MAN of sorrows" who would be the sacrifice for sin.
There is nothing in Isaiah 53 to indicate the man is God, in fact, the passage shows the man and his relationship to his GOD.
