The Great Command: Love God, Love Your Neighbor

Prayer begins with address to the Father and this is significant in and of itself. Jesus apparently thinks that when you and I pray we need to constantly remind ourselves who we're praying to. He almost always refers to God with the word Father, Father. It's not a huge prominent idea in the Hebrew scriptures. But if you look through the teachings of Jesus, he occasionally calls God by the word God. And so what do you see? You see a God who's generous, who's gracious, who is seeking the lost.