If we are his Children does that not make him our Father???

 I was ask a question the other day by a scholarly friend of mine, who is a follower of Yeshua (the true name of Jesus) What name is the real  name of God and which one do I use when praying. I had never pondered such things in great detail. Once but simply for a class in the study of the four gospels but not really beyond that.


Yahweh,  Elohim, Adonai, are names the Jews used for God . We English speakers use God, Father, and Jesus are all appropriate names by which to call upon the true and living God. He knows them that are His own, for He called them to Himself, and He knows perfectly our thoughts and to whom we are directing our prayers. He knows for certain that if we are indeed His own, we are praying to Him.

"Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, 'Abba, Father.' For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children." (Romans 8:15-16).

More importantly, He knows our inadequacy to pray the right things to the extent that He knows of what we should be asking. We can be confident that through the Holy Spirit, we can pray in harmony with His will.

"And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will" (Romans 8:26-27).

The burden is not on the Christian to call Him by the right name per se, but to call upon Him and to pray by the leading of the Holy Spirit, who will direct our prayer according to God's will.
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Please note: Jesus did say that if we ask of God anything in His name... but there is no division between asking of God by the leading of the Holy Spirit and using (or not using) Jesus' name. Contrary to popular belief, the speaking or invocation of His name is not a magic formula that makes the prayer valid or effective. If the person is covered in Christ's righteousness  is a (believer) aka Christian, God will honor the prayers as they will be in concert with His will and Spirit.

In short, there is no iron-clad distinction between using any of the divine names to refer to God in prayer. It is His Spirit and His righteousness abiding upon the person asking in prayer that gets His attention.

Father, we come to you with all things ask you to grant us your truth not the ideologies of men, grant us the wisdom to seek you early each day and seek you in the midnight hour to Cry to out our Father for we thirst for knowledge of you, we thirst be close to you.  Send no one a way who comes seeking you Father, grant them understanding of who you are and who we are in you.