CAPTAIN J. W. ROBERTS, USN
Commanding Officer
CDR R. L. STRAUB, USN
Executive Officer
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CHAPLAIN'S
COINS R
THINKING OK THE LORD'S PRATER
|1 Genuine prayer is a turning
j| of the person inside out# It
|| is the effect to identify self
with God# It is the effort to
H be bigger than one is,' to know
H more than one knows, to see
\S more than one sees# Genuine
prayer is an effort to accom
|| plish what one will by willing
If to accomplish the will of God#
I I Prayer is an effort to change
] self-will to God's will#
"Thy kingdom ccme" is a prayer
| that whatever is God's will in
I ■ heaven be done on earth, what
ever God's ultimate will is bo
done now, whatever God's will
is in principle become a fact
and in detail# Thus, if one prays for
God's will to be done, he cannot pray
that something come that is not of God's
will# When one prays that a mountain be
moved, if he prays it in earnestness and
sincerity, if he prays it as the will of
God, if it is the will of God, the Moun
tain will be moved#
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Whatever one prays which is in the will
of God will be accomplished# It is as if
it were already an accomplished fact#
Jesus prayed that the cup pass from
Him, but almost in the same breath, "Thy
will be done#" Perhaps one cannot know
exactly what is meant by the cup, but it
is quite evident that, whatever He was
praying for, He was praying earnestly
only that the Father’s will be done#
To pray that the will of God be done
! should not keep one from praying for
something which he himself wills* For
example, if one's child is ill, he might
desperately desire that that child be
come well. He might pray that God make
i him well. If the prayer is to be a real
I prayer, that right be done, that God's^k
j v:ill prevails He trusts God to know tire
difference* It is not necessary for him
! to a ttempt to understand the mind of God,
i at this point* He does not necessarily *
j need to stop at each'individual request
; to say, "Now, God, if this is not Thy
j will do not grant it# Thy will be done*"’
His prayer is a prayer of faith. He
j recognizes that God knows and that God
; understands. He recognizes that God
: understands the limitations, of human
! faith in prayer. To pray that God's
\ will be done and to say the words is
; not always the same. One must truly
: desire that God's will be done. This
I is not to say that it is God's will
j for a sic!: child to die or be made wel^T
Such a question is not the considera
j tion at this point. Suffice it to say
j that God came into this earth in the
j person of Jesus Christ, raising the dead*
f healing the deaf, the dumb, the blind,
! the sick, preaching the gospel to the
| poor, blessing those who needed-blessings
! This, v/e might assume, is utterly genu
- ir.oly the will of God. That there is a
: permissive will and a purposeful or ul
timate will is understood. The details
I of understanding may be less obvious.
; We do pray for the will of God upon
this earth. Whatever is good for God and
his kingdom is good for all mankind.
Whatever is good for all mankind is good
for us as individuals*
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