Real Prayer Is Trinitarian Prayer

We will spend at least three Sundays looking together at this prayer — but for today, we will focus on the majestic truth that true prayer is Trinitarian. Now, up front here I want to head off misunderstanding and error. By saying that true prayer is Trinitarian I do not mean that every prayer must mention the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Obviously this prayer does. But many prayers of the Bible, including the Lord’s Prayer and many of the Psalms do not do so. Nonetheless, every prayer in the Bible is a Trinitarian prayer because it is addressed to the Triune God. When I say that true prayer is Trinitarian prayer, I mean that true prayer is addressed to God as He really is and as you know Him to be. Let me put it this way. If you talk to your wife the same way you talk to the gas station clerk, something is wrong there. If you talk to God the same way you talk to any old stranger, something is wrong there. In genuine prayer, you need to know who you’re talking to. That’s what it means to say that true prayer is Trinitarian prayer.