Section 3
were not in God. But now we are children of God." Yes, as believers, we are children of God. Nevertheless, we must recognize the fact that often in our experience we are not in God. We do not stay in God; we do not remain in Him. For example, before going to bed, a brother loses his temper with his wife. When he rises up the next morning, he rises up outside of God. What should he do? He should pray himself into God.
However, suppose the brother prays some thing like this: "Father, You are just and fair. You know that my wife is wrong. I ask You to vindicate me." The more the brother prays like this, the farther he will be away from God in his experience. He needs to pray, "O Father, sanctify Your name. Your kingdom come. Father, give me bread for this day, and forgive me even as I forgive my wife. Father, do not bring me into that trial again." The more the brother prays like this, the more he will find himself in God. This illustrates the point that to pray is to pray ourselves into God.
Often we are distracted from God. We may be distracted from Him simply by an advertise ment in the newspaper. Because we are easily dis tracted from God, we should spend time every morning with Him, praying ourselves into Him.