PRAY

“In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name” (Matthew 6:9).

In the New Testament, several Greek words like “proseuchomai,” “deomai,” “parakaleo,” “erotao,” and “euchomai” are translated “pray,” and some of them have a very thin line of variation in respect to their meanings from the others.

However, the word “pray” referenced in our study on the 2nd day of July 2024—“Be A Kingdom Ambassador”—is “proseuchomai,” which means to petition, supplicate, entreat, or implore.

It’s an ‘active” spiritual exercise engaged in with earnestness, intensity, reverence, purpose and expectation.

It also connotes an act of worship made to a superior authority and one who has the ability to bring to pass the subject of the petition—God.

Thus, to pray or praying isn’t something to be done with a beggarly, indifferent or irreverent attitude but in reverence and with earnest and intense determination to get results.