Unless we are in fellowship with our Creator, our prayers go unnoticed before Him. Unless we are taking Him to heart, and following in His ways, we are beating the air. Our own heart gives us away for we are not in fellowship with Him from our heart when we mindfully seek our own desires, our prayers are unanswered while asking selfishly what the flesh so habitually pursues. Our only assistance in time of need is our Creator who knows our exact need and will not succumb to our whims, trying to manipulate Him, in conforming to what we seek without Him. 'We should think clearly when we pray,'exactly what our intention really is, for lust of worldly desires will not be heard. Our only intention must be humble and necessarily devoted to further hope in our relationship with YHVH. Our heavenly Father knows our desires and our hearts relationship with Him. Our heavenly Father also knows our needs. Our needs are what He wants to answer, and we cannot control Him with out whims and control issues. Our Father YHVH knows every thought and intention of the heart, and He is even aware of even the games we play in an attempt to get Him to concur with our passions.

When we pray there is no secret desire that is not known. We are to come to Him in humility, not in pushy intention of self gratification, even when we are praying for others. There are times when we have ulterior motives when we attempting to be heard for others sake. We know our intentions, how much more He knows what we harbor in our hearts.

A relationship with YHVH must be our first criteria. When we have a relationship, and are in His favor, we then can come to Him requesting. Not for things, for His will is not to inundate us with possessions that will eventually come between. Possessions are an entrapment that controls our emotional disposition, and we come under the influence of them when we are searching for them whether we receive them or not.

YHVH's intention, to answer or not our prayers, will come between when we are not following. Instead we have the tendency to lead, and leading Him is unfortunately what most prayer contains. How do we know what out needs are? How do we know what will hurt us in our relationship with Him and come between? Whether we know it or not. possessions are a detriment to those attempting audience with Him in complete abandon, naked and alone, seeking for nothing other than what He desires to give. Hence, the desires of our hearts will be given from above when we follow Him. Those desires will be from YHVH who promised to bestow the desires of our hearts; He chooses those desires that He places within our hearts according to His promise.

Moving mountains has absolutely no value to anyone unless YHVH wishes it moved. If He wishes it moved and wants a lesson learned by us, He will place that desire within us, then and only then will whatever needed moving get moved. The only prayer that YHVH has ever answered are those that He placed within our hearts to request. We have not originated one answered request from the beginning of time. We ask and do not receive, as the apostle spoke, because we ask amiss, that we may consume it in our own lust, even when others are the intended recipient, for even then at times we ask amiss. Prayer is a powerful appeal, but is a loving Father appreciated with constant control issues while praying? How can we appreciate a close interpersonal relationship with manipulation issues? Is there any difference in relationship with YHVH and relationship with so called friends? Most assuredly, but our Abba knows our hearts from the outset, friends do not, be cautioned.

Now the difficult question! How to respond to a loving daddy with our control attitudes, when seeking only selfish desires then received are unappreciated? Can we consider that He is beyond understanding the hidden motives of His own creation? Can we come toward Him in complete abandon asking for those things He wants to give, knowing that only those supplications are advantageous? Have we become immune to the feelings of others, especially His, when we selfishly ask for desires that originate from an evil heart?

We ask, 'why are our prayers are not answered,' without considering perhaps that those prayers cannot even go forth from us, because they cannot exuberate from a selfishly motivated heart. They remain within us expectantly waiting for what has no chance of being fulfilled.

Our chance of controlling our loving Daddy is less than possible. We are in control of nothing. We are only controlled by our own selfishness, like having an additional undesirable person living within us. We cannot accomplish anything good through selfishness. In my answer to questions that have attitudes, there is only one plausible response. 'Take it somewhere else; I am not your slave but free in the hand of my Creator and only He can make demands of me.' Yet demands are not even close to what He will ask, for we share the same goals, and those originate from His throne.

We work in harmony with YHVH when we come naked and alone before Him, seeking only His Perfect Will in our lives. We come before Him unselfishly with open arms, souls and hearts, if we expect to receive any request fulfilled, and rewards are His response to our approach, acknowledging Him completely because of what He has made us, and the rewards He gives are not physical possessions. We exist in the flesh for the expressed purpose of Creation and His good pleasure. Somehow we get that backwards while seeking Him; seeking His hand instead of His face, yet expecting Him to comply. Entire Creation is to cast the adversary out of heaven, and the rewards found in eternal life come in that eternity. Remember, He loves us. That also means that He will not give what will come between.

Being in praise completely is being in complete fellowship with Abba Daddy, and in complete reverence to His power and humble might. We cannot serve two masters. We cannot serve YHVH and our own desires. We can be complete in only one service, and partial compliance will only lead to frustration in attempting to manipulate our very Creator. Attempts to manipulate Him will end in self will and bring loneliness in our endeavors.

There is however a power that will cater to our whims and lead/follow us into self service that ends in spiritual death. This power also has the power to serve our desires that lead to death and will even request special commitments from us to encourage our self-will to dominate our lives. By following our self-will we end up in compliance with the devil. He will not only give into our whims and our self service but place those responses within us and lead us into all sorts of vile and lascivious behavior.

The subject is not so much the writing on prayer, but where these words originate. I could say that I took time to prepare this, and it would be believable, but that is not the case. These words did flow out from me perfectly as written, and I do not take credit for the flow or the subject matter alone. The calling that this writing has on one's life is not from the one at the keypad, but from its ultimate source, and this is the explanation.

Living in the spirit is not what most believe it to be. Living in the spirit is so much more than saying the right buzz-words, and calling out with voices raised. Living in the Spirit originates with living in the spirit. There are two S's here, one small letter and another in caps. It does not take a rocket scientist to know which is which and to whom they apply.

To live in the spirit, small 's' comes with surrender in a fashion that supplants the bodily presence of the man, that is, the functions of his physical being in every way that one can imagine and bring about a totally submissive countenance in humility, and I cannot say unwavering here as we would discuss faith, because the flesh does have a way in one's life, but an unwavering non-desire to feed the flesh aside from a few bodily body functions by which the flesh is made to live by, and health in mind, body and spirit becomes vital also to the well being the man who needs to be a useful tool in the hands of his Creator, in this case Abba YHVH, in a complete a form as one can comply with.

The question must arise then of where every word originates, and how does one not mix the word origins together and confuse the messages that originate in the mind of our Abba. Some of us have discussed the "Still Small Voice" of our Creator, and we know from Scripture that He is alive and well in all who surrender to Him in open, honest and humble supplication continually. It is not so much the giving that is in question in this equation, because most honest believers of Truth as we know it at that particular time in our respective lives, give of what we can, and that being whatever our capabilities are in that particular time in our respective lives, and that should increase as we mature in our relationship with Abba YHVH completely on a step by step basis for the remainder of our lives. But the giving over of our lives takes on a much greater role than the giving part that we are capable of; it becomes the receiving part in its entirety that begins to take shape in our lives individually that molds us into a living sacrifice unmovable.

I will discuss with you a few of the steps my Abba took me through to come to a place where He and I could sit at the computer and discuss through the key-pad, eternal blessings from Genesis to Revelation in an informative and spiritual way that transcends the flesh of us into a living and walking way of reading from what we hear in His Still Small Voice clearly enough to display the message in written form, enough to be understood by the reader in perfect spiritual concordance  with the original order and origin of these thoughts verbally. It is thought that some here might have this gift earned, and if so I will be able to read it in their words penned the same way regardless if they understood or not. That is also part of the gift earned, that we receive as we walk toward our Abba interpersonally enough to not be in so much Awe of Him, that we can hear Him enough to understand Him interpersonally. Without dropping to the ground and burying our faces in the sand so-to-speak, we are more able to come to a loving parent without that awe that inspires distance, but boldly approach Him in a child-like humility that only a child of that loving parent could muster up intentionally, but normal in tone and approach looking for a hug and reassurance that 'all is well,' and a little fix in my heart will give me the strength to continue through this life unafraid no matter what bumps into our life reasonless or purposefully.

Now for the meat of he matter at hand.
Should we connect the dots and discover a more interpersonal relationship with Him in just this writing, that would be a perfect measure of what He has prepared you for all during your life. At times it only takes a little catalyst to spark that response from the matter at hand, and in this case our preparation unmovable yet undiscovered as we walk with and toward Him, knowing not that we are actually lead by Him so thoroughly, that a brief glance over our shoulder at times will reveal 'marked steps' with only His marks left, and little recognition that we were even carried this far unaware. I don't just speak for myself here, but for everyone that has been on this journey knowingly or not, but the discovery is a necessary tool to continue on the pace that is now marked for us individually in these advancing days of turmoil and strife, that He told us would come, and we are approaching these days like a freight-train out of control on a down-grade without barriers to stop the advance.

Now some will say that Abba is the barrier. That is true only to an extent. There was a barrier during the flood but we went through it. There was a barrier at Exodus but we went through it. There was also a barrier in every step we took in our respective lives that carried us this far, but during the worst times of our lives, that barrier was almost undetectable. How could some of us have walked through that storm alone and survived? We could not have!

As we stand here today unscathed yet broken and healed, we are even now not alone, that is, all who really rely upon our Abba for every breath, and even these words many of us speak, sound a little distant for discovery. We attempt to personalize at times what others may have been through not knowing in reality what it was really like to have gone through that particular experience. Like us men discussing, if-you-will, the ladies at child birth. We think, and we can think more, but that is so far removed that it is unfathomable really! To the ladies, you went through it because you had to go through it, and after it was over, how much of it was really remembered in all of its struggle? To some much, and to others less, but we walked through it and stand here today with those portions of life behind us, and so much of it not desiring to relive, except perhaps child-birth, and how many women the second or third time around found that all of it was not really remembered because of the intensity going on at the present, this was not really remembered. So it is with life. So it will be in the here-after. The past will not really be remembered nor come into mind, but the today of life at times is so traumatic that we at times wonder if life is worth it.

Well you know what I am getting at. Life! Then there is Life More Abundantly! That abundance is not ours to order, but to live through and know that these steps were ordered, or at least agreed to.

So, where am I going with this? Actually I really do not know, because I am not the only one involve in this writing, there is no telling where exactly, but I do know the theme, and that is what we encounter in a well marked life with our Abba Daddy.

There is so much to say about prayer, so allow me to discuss a few things not well known among the brethren. You will not really know how to pray until Abba YHVH takes you by the hand and teaches you personally. That will take a close relationship,with Him to accomplish, and that alone will take some heart searches humility to uncover, that is, uncover the roots of your passions in servitude and supplication, and devotion to being in His presence with understanding. Knowing what the purpose of it all is paramount in this equation.

When we pray, do we pray from the heart through the flesh or through the spirit? Now allow me to say this, we do both, but where we spend most of our prayer life will determine whether we are physical beings or spiritual beings. Abba told us in John, Those who come to Him must come in spirit and in truth. What then is the direction we must search out to be in His presence continually, but the spirit? Are we creatures of the flesh or of the spirit, can be discovered in our prayers, and allow me also to say, either one is not a deterrence or a slap in the face to discover, much less discuss. We are what we are and that is all we are, but the devotion comes in attempting to be more like Him, or at least strive to be, as He was an example for us to follow.

Praying from the flesh will usually bring desires of he flesh. Spiritual prayer on the other hand will bring desires of the spirit, and those are the ones that are eternal in nature. Our attitude while in prayer also is a sign or signature of where we are in those prayers. One does not drop to the ground in spiritual prayer, and the bowing of one's head is also one of those learned habits that religion bestows upon us to be sure we are living in the flesh. They live in the flesh so they can indoctrinate us even more to serving the flesh. They live in the flesh so they also desire you to be living with them in the flesh. Once one comes full circle and worships Abba YHVH continually, that one will not remain in the flesh worshipping assemblies very long, because there is no real food there, and battling to make known to them what real devotion is becomes distasteful after a while, to ears that cannot hear and eyes the cannot see. Those are strong words, yes, and it depends on one's spiritual nature in life that will determine how much of this he understands.

I have much to say on prayer that will not set well with worshippers of the flesh, or those who worship in the flesh. Spiritual things are seen through the spirit. and those in between, or coming closer to that goal will begin to see for what life really is. I will give you and example or two for starts. The common posture among those coming out of the churches are these: on one's knees; bowed head toward the ground or even on the ground. None of these are taught by our Abba. I know! I know what you would like to say! Allow me to give a few examples that a mother or a father can understand. A mother or a father are that because they have children. Do you ask or demand your children to come to you on their knees? How about their hands, do you demand folded hands with their heads bowed? Do they lock together their fingers at your command?

If your children came to you in those postures, would you correct them or allow that kind of closed mind and heart. I know! You tell me, would it not be better, if we experience, our children running to us happy instead of sad, with smiling faces, their only care at that moment is to come to you, with open arms wanting nothing more than to hug you and sit upon your lap, and under your watchful eyes, surrender to you the child-like endurance of just being in your presence?

Give this some thought. What is one hiding behind with all of the ancient pagan posture taught today in church circles, that we indoctrinate ourselves into what separates us from the compassion of a child and a loving parent? Where does that sort of posture originate?

Before some of you begin to throw rotten tomatoes at me, just consider your selves in this situation with the ones you love coming crawling on their knees with folded hands to have audience with you, and instead of wanting to be in your presence, just came in that begging posture asking for things, begging for things.

Does not the Scripture tell us, He already knows what we need? He is ready to bestow them also. But Scripture also tells us, that it is a close interpersonal  relationship with Him that, HE WILL PLACE WITHIN OUR HEARTS, OUR DESIRES?

Those are the requests that He wants to give to us, and that is why He places those in our hearts to begin with. Yes, one can pester Him to the point that in His importunity He will give us a pesky request. If you constantly ask for those things, the ones you should not have, and those become the desire of your heart continually, and His Still Small Voice ignored, He will turn you over to your vile affections. Vile is a strong word, but not near the description of attending worship under the influence of ancient pagan mind-sets at His feet.

Is this hitting a sour chord in some? It should! That is why I spoke, that we have need to allow Him to teach us how to pray. We pray for so many frivolous things that will never be given, and we continue in these unknowingly because we have been trained that way by religious men unaware.

COME AS A CHILD TO A LOVING PARENT. We know how to do that. So why follow religious men that have twisted the Scriptures on every other point as well. Allow Abba YHVH to teach you how to come as a child. Until then, just come as a child the way you already know. After a while your prayers will be more like they should be, a willing servant established and comfortable in His care, without the pestering frivolous requests that take away from us our sit on His lap, looking directly in the eyes and breathing, Daddy.

Chose you this day whom you will serve, as for me and my house, we will serve Abba YHVH, our loving Daddy.

Yosef