Faith Filled Family Magazine September 2016 | Page 42

Praying

Beyond

By Dr. Stan DeKoven

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few years back I was
in a prayer meeting,
and frankly, I was a
bit bored. It was not
just the folk’s prayers that bored
me, but my own, for they are quite
honestly almost totally focused
on self. As I listened into the
prayers of the saints (and myself
way too often), I was appalled to
find that most prayers were concerned about me, myself and
I. This awareness set me on a
biblical search for the priorities

of God; essentially, I know that
if I prayed the priorities of G od,
I would be praying with purpose
and focus…. thus my question
became, what does God want?
In response to this most important question, I first visited the
famous conversation between
God the Father and the preincarnate Christ in Ps. 2: It reads
“Ask of Me, and I shall give the
nations for Your inheritance; and
the uttermost parts of the earth
for Your possession.” (Ps. 2:8,
NKJV) Another version states,
“What do you want? Name it:
Nations as a present? Conti-