Luke 11:1,2 ~ praying in a certain place

 

I have always loved the blue of Hydrangeas

and Phlox

They are like capturing the sky

in cloud form in the 

Garden

Luke 11:1,2

Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when He finished, one of His Disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” 

² And He said to them,

Our Father, Who art in Heaven,

Hallowed be Thy Name;

Thy Kingdom come

Thy Will Be Done

Luke 11 begins with love and respect. 

The Disciples waited upon Jesus Christ's timing to speak to Him.  And Jesus immediately answers their love and respect. There is praise in the Words of Jesus, here. 

Our Father in Heaven

Today's post centers around 

Matthew 4: 4 and, not coincidentally, 

Luke 4: 4

We Live by EVERY WORD OF GOD.

We discern the wise words of John the Beloved Disciple in the Holy Spirit.

John 1:1-4

The Word was with God, and the Word was God.

 He was in the beginning with God. 

All things were made through Him, 

and 

without Him 

was not  anything made that was made. 

In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.

Immediately, 

we see The Lord's Prayer identifies God as vastly and immortally and imperially more than in Heaven. Not far away. This knowing requires a prayer immediately to our core, the soul, and our mind and body.

There is a certain prayer going parallel to The Lord's Prayer:

This is my Bible. 'I am' (a child of God, saved in Jesus Christ to believe) what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do. Today, I will be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess: my mind is alert, my heart is receptive, and I will never be the same, in Jesus' name.

Amen.

God is more than in Heaven

Our Father is Mightily Present

in

ALL

Almighty

All Things His

Life

Light

Light of Heaven

Light of mankind

Light of nations

And in that very day of Jesus' ministry

Jesus is saying in the exact words, I Am. 

I am present with you, as you wait for me. 

Even as I Am praying with our Father, I Am with you. Jesus is aware the Disciples, kindly, with love and respect waited upon Jesus to come and speak with them. In Verse one.

Immediately we are aware God is more than the clouds beautifully surrounding Him in His Kingdom.

Jesus knows them, all their thoughts, words, deeds, flaws, sins, hopes, and the goodness He knows in mankind.  

The response for us is, God is not far away. Not far, far away.  

And if He does feel far, far away, invite Him to live in you that minute. 

“Father, Lord God, sending us Your Only Son, Jesus Christ. Please Live in me, know every aspect of my being. I am Yours, Father, Thank You for your Love and Mercy.  Lead me and guide me. In Jesus, Highest Name, I pray. Amen.”

Then Jesus proceeds to tell us this about speaking with God, as Prayer.  

Luke 11, Jesus tells us speak to Me like your Friend. We are Friends.  And the Disciples have approached Jesus with kindly, respect and love.

Matthew 6 is very different regarding The Lord's Prayer. 

A very possible reason , Jesus sent the Disciples ahead, to learn ministry. 

This is a different day in the Ministry of Jesus. Definitely, the tone is different.  Jesus discusses practicing Piety, Giving to the Needy without being rather awful. Jesus calls this hypocrisy.  Being seen for being all that. Using repeat prayers with words that have become empty. Definitely, 2 ways of approaching God.  Then Jesus does continue, not fasting, looking gloomy, dark, or gothic.  Reward seeking.

Jesus is then upbeat and tells us the Reward of God is to pray secretly and there is a reward. Our believing hearts have a reward.  Pray secretly and then God rewards.

Is your prayer life like Maria?

Out of focus and bemused

And I never know exactly where I am

Unpredictable as weather

I know I fail to pray, intend to

and instead pray about what is in front of me.

My Aunt Clarice told me one time, she had utterly awful hip arthritis, she knew I helped her in my prayer life. The opposite was true. In high school, we prayed for her in a group. And I realized I could pray for Aunt Clarice forever and just get depressed. And the girl sitting next to me asked if we would continue, and I said no. And she said, oh, awful, I was sure this was working. Her prayers for Aunt Clarice had worked. I still feel so badly about this.

Instead, just pray as often as they sang.

And being guilted about praying.

Have you ever thought, Oh, I was really lazy about praying about that. I didn't even intend to forget. So sorry. Or someone comes to you and says, We prayed for that person and now the problem belongs to you, you - you must have not prayed enough - sinner.  Guilt giving in prayer. Ridiculous as a label. Not in actuality.  2 separate situations.

Hallowed be Thy Name;

Thy Kingdom come

Thy Will Be Done

That is self-talk or judgment and is pointless. An incredible number of praying people know they have had our Father hear their first prayer, and a miracle happened. The miracle only God could do.  Prayer is Always what God is doing. 

One of my favorite sermons. Father B said, If your mind wanders during the homily or sermon, just remember Jesus. He would not overly scold you. He simply would say, Welcome back. And smile.  Just as He was gentle with Mary and Martha. Welcome back!

And so we have to believe in our through the glass darkly, this is exactly as He sees us asking and seeking in our prayer lives.  And probably why we are invited to pray ceaselessly. So we wander back through to the Heart of the Prayer.

And to realize anything we pray for, He is willing to hear. One of the reasons David includes things that can be uncomfortable. David saw himself as the Apple of God's eye, and believes like Abraham, if we believe the best of God and not that God is a perfect Judge,  He remembers His Mercy to us, given in His Son's Life. 

We have all had times when we pray in secret and immediately an impossible and wonderful life event occurs.  Wham O.   

And then. We cajole God. 

And we try and try and try.  A certain author calls this the disappointing silence of God. 

Luke 11

8 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is His Friend, yet because of his impudence

He will Rise and give him whatever he needs. 

9 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 

11 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 

13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more 

will the Heavenly Father 

give the Holy Spirit 

to those who ask Him!”

Jesus tells us there is trouble in life, and occasionally we need to ask and ask because in our lack of understanding. Like the disciples couldn't get the son of the, "I do have faith, help me to have more, Jesus!"  We consider God to be a  faraway and not attentive Judge. Pry the Judge to do something. Instead of Pray the Lord to send His Holy Spirit Help. 

And not ask enough? 

Instead, Thy Will be Done. 

The Lord God Almighty upholds the Universe with the Power of His Word.  In this lifetime of Jesus, He asked once and replied upon God to decide and do.  God is really not the Pry the Judge. And do not use empty words to bore Him.

Abba, Father,

We ask Jesus Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith

We ask to be being rooted and grounded in love

and have strength to comprehend with all 

what is the breadth and length and height and depth

of Your Love.

To know 

the love of Christ 

surpassing all the books ever written 

fully know

We are filled with all the fullness of God

Your Promises,

Father,

Are Sure.

In Jesus Christ,

we live and move and

have our being.

Amen!

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

You are The Lord Jesus

Thank You, for hearing us

Romans 13:1-5 ~ Then do what is Good †

Speaking of that

Bottom Dollar ...

Like cage-free chickens

with eggs

some care

can go a long way

Romans 13:1-5

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. 

Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? 

Then do what is good, and you will receive His approval, for he is God's servant for your good. 

But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.

We can start out our post with Good News.

AI will pull us in new directions, eliminating many tests. Within 5 years.

More Good News, Beagles leaving the Animal Testing Field

And Beagle Survivors can be Adopted, 4/4 star Charity

THE BAD NEWS

130,000 Monkeys

The Daily Mail published a leaked insider laboratory, telling of the realities of Animal Testing. 

Let's talk about the Bottom Dollar. 

Keeping in mind that people will pay for Cage-Free Eggs. 

(And avoiding Beef from horrible Greeley, Colorado,  365 days a year.)

The global preclinical CRO market—which covers outsourced services including animal-based toxicology, 

safety pharmacology, 

and discovery studies involving animal models

Provides the best proxy for revenue tied to animal testing in human drug development. Estimates for recent/recently reported years consistently place it in the $6–7 billion range annually:

 Approximately $6.2–6.8 billion in 2024/2025, with toxicology testing as the largest segment (often 22–40% of the market, and the part most reliant on animal models). 

Projections show growth to $12–14 billion

 by the early 2030s (CAGR ~8%), driven by rising R&D outsourcing, complex biologics, and regulatory requirements.

This Post has photos you might not want to see. 

And yet, your participation can make the world better.

Before we see these realities, let's remember ...

Where 

we have been 

within just 2 lifetimes.

And what boarding your pet for vacation looked like in my childhood: 

My grandmother Bit's very, very, well-beloved Irish Setter, Charlie, age 5, died of a heart attack to be taken to the vet boarding facilities.

And what Pet Boarding can look like affordably today:

And what Zoos will be replaced with:

Compared with

the Billion Dollar

Industry

of Animal Lab Testing Facilities

And

BIG PHARMA

"When we know bettah

we 

WILL

do Bettah."

LABORATORIES TODAY

SO
BAD

And this inhalation and captivity.

There are several obvious flaws in medical research 

allowing torture 

and the planned death of these animals.

1. The people who would work in this environment. Yes, truly.  And the results in the research. Nothing in this world is just facts. There are always levels and innuendos regarding motivations. The body as a whole is not independent of the Life. 

2. We have all seen what an animal will do to die in zoos and in shelters.  Human beings saw this in Auschwitz. 

3. Good results would have to be unseen. An animal with no hope is not a healthy animal. We read below how the animals react to their humans, environment, pain and hopelessness. Tortured animals are not well animals.

4. If medical research in humans is done on the dying, we see tremendously skewed results.  Some medical gain is lost in the hopelessness.

5. Many medicines have to be adjusted if the patient has many situations occurring. The body as a whole is not independent of the Life. 

Clearly, this sets the medical research community into something beyond irritation. The words "necessary" and "needed" would be applied immediately. 

This is absolutely flawed reasoning.

Rhesus Macques 

Cynomolgus Macques

Marmosets, Pigtail Macaques, and Baboons

Are the monkeys used in research.

One member of our family raised a Macques monkey from child to adult. As the adult got older, it acted out to escape.  Monkeys need one another. There is absolutely no reason these monkeys couldn't live in sanctuaries. How would you retrieve the monkey? How do you find your car keys? Electronically to the receiver. How are cows counted? Feeding time. 

How would a monkey ever allow injections? The same way a monkey would retrieve and reach into a container for a highly favored treat and find there was a sting. 

Why would we allow the monkey to live in a sanctuary? To see how life affects the medicated. To see if breeding is impared. To find the monkey functions within the community. Longevity.

Testing has the question of affordability.  Bad testing is affordable. Better results testing is NEEDED and NECESSARY.

Today the weight loss drugs are said to damage teeth, facial muscles and create cancer. If the monkeys had mostly lived, instead of being put to autopsy over and over, then the effects would have been seen. And the researchers would have had more data instead of putting a living creature to death over and over.

And to allow the public to see the monkeys and even adopt the monkeys. Public awareness and transparency are actually medicine in the real world. 

If the monkey was terribly ill, the sanctuary has a vet option allowing the monkeys to see and interact with the rest of the sanctuary through windows. 

No monkey is tortured, hopeless or alone.  Better employees and researchers. The medical research, the informed public, Better Medicine. Real Time Results.

The Photos and Article from the Daily Mail. 4/18/2026

What can you do.

PRAY

Write your elected Congressional Politicians

Adopt these Animals for awareness.

Speak up.

Isaiah 10:1-2 

 Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, 

and the writers who keep writing oppression, 

to turn aside the needy from justice 

and 

to 

rob the poor of my people of their right, 

that widows may be their spoil, 

and that they may make the fatherless 

their prey!

"A righteous man regards the life of his beast," states Proverbs 12:10

  

10 A righteous man regards the life of his animal, 

but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.

Moses knew

Exodus 23:5

If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, 

do not leave it there; 

you must help him with it.

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the air: 

They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, 

and yet

 your heavenly Father feeds them. 

Are you not much more valuable than they?

Luke 12:6

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? 

Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.

Mark 16:15 

"Go into all the world 

and 

preach the Gospel 

to every creature"

Abba, Father,

Our heart hears the call from You.

We know to have held Jesus to

trial and death as a false prophet 

would incur egregious error.

And we see in Scripture 

the Mercy of the Merciful.

What we would 

Ask of You, Father,

What could be

accomplished

And how to do this.

For the Many Needs

to

be

Met

Gracious Father.

In Jesus

AMEN.

Dwell in us, Father,

Dwell fully in those we love,

Help us to seek You first

and we will finish well in Jesus Christ.

Thank You.

Our God is working. His Son, 

Jesus is working.

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Thank You Lord Jesus 

†