Sorry, but Jesus said, "Our Father", simply because He was teaching a group. The Lord's prayer is a pattern we can use when we pray personally, one on one with God.
Are we not called or made to be priests and kings unto God?
of what order of priesthood?
Not of Levi , for I am not of the tribe of Levi and a priesthood of the flesh needs must be of the tribe of Levi to be acceptable to God .
But they were given for our ensamples.
Jesus as it is laid our in Hebrews is our high priest who ever intercedes for us as high priest .
Who speaks on our behalf to God as he speaks to Men on Gods as it were.
The high priest of old had an ephod on his chest or heart ,upon which was the precious stones symbolic of the tribes of Israel.
When he went into the Holy of Holies he therefore aproached God for the people . as well as Himself .
If we are made priests unto God did they not of old, enter into the holy place to administer the things of God also for the people?
To ensure the alter of incense (prayer) was continually lit as a sweet offerign unto God?
Did not Samuel reply to the people of God after ; under God, rebuking them for seeking a king like other nations "that shall I sin to stop praying for you?"
Then I would suggest to you that "OUR father" has more meaning to it than you suppose .
and that when we pray we should as far as it is possible to be in us be aware we are part of a body and when we may with boldness into the presence of God ..
I would still argue that into the Most Holy place only ONE may still enter .
In that it is In Jesus name of the same mind and purpose at its most highest .
For are we not called to climb the hill of the Lord? With tears if needs must if oft with joy and thansk giving.
What do you see as you climb a hill? if not more than you did at the bottom of the hill?
and at the bottom of the hill we see little and only what we see as it were . Nothing wrong with that .
But we have the privilidge to climb the hill of the Lord and become partakers not only of the divine nature but also "co-workers with God" and as we climb we may from time to time stop and rest and look back and their laid out before us in some measure is how God sees things .
and the more we climb the more we see . To pray in Jesus name is not to simply add his name to the end of our prayers .
But it is to see things as God would have us see things and pray accordingly in Jesus name .
To be gathered geographically together in Jesus name does not mean at all that all who are so gathered are of the same mind or see the same things .
In the book of acts they all prayed with ONE voice . meaning of the same mind expressed in prayer .
They were in very truth praying in Jesus name . Beign not only geographically in the same place but in a "unity of the faith" or understanding also .
When Jesus thus taught us to pray after this patter n "OUR father ....." It is more than simply being geographically all in the same place. But to be aware as much as we are able like at the Lords supper of the Lords body.
and thus to pray on our bretherens behalf for him . As much if not more than ourselves.
For what is a brother? If not one of the same household and of the same father .
and what then is a nieghbour if not of another household and of another father .
Are we not then to good to all men expecialy to the household of faith ?
and to love our neighbour as ourselves?
in Christ
gerald
