I guess I have been a little out of it these past few years that I have worshipped in a liturgical church. I’ve been excited to celebrate Pentecost Sunday, but honestly never caught on to Trinity Sunday. It is celebrated the Sunday after Pentecost and celebrates the three persons of the Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Trinity Sunday begins the ordinary season that will last until Advent, but since it is Trinity Sunday the church color is white, rather than green.

I love to learn something new and it is meaningful to me that my deeper experience of praying to God with special attention to the three persons of the Trinity happened the week of Pentecost Sunday to Trinity Sunday. I wrote to you last week how praying to our Triune God has inspired my prayer life. Have you tried to pray to God that way? How did it affect the rest of your time in prayer?

About ten years ago I learned to pray to God as my Father, my Daddy. It was a dramatic breakthrough in my prayer life. I began to pray more. I wanted to pray more. I felt a deep connection to God in prayer. I began to see Him as the One who was always there for me, only had my best interests at heart, and knew that I felt overwhelmed with what He asked, but He didn’t stop asking. It has been amazing. I wrote a book about it, How to Really Love God as Your Father. I was so blessed by what happened in my prayer life that I wanted to share it with others and inspire them to pray this way.

It’s been about ten years since I have been so inspired by a new way of praying. This is why you are receiving yet another devotional on this same subject. While praying to God as my Father is still valuable, I get a deeper sense of connection to how Almighty He really is when I take in that I am praying to God my Father, Jesus my Redeemer and Holy Spirit, my present help in time of need. He is my Father, but He is so much more than that.

I can’t tell you how much I want that same experience for you. I want to challenge you to take in what you are able to know about God. You can’t understand Him completely, but you can understand Him better than say, Daniel, King David and all those Old Testament characters who loved Him without fully grasping even Jesus, not to mention the Holy Spirit indwelling all believers. Do you realize how privileged we are? Do you want to feel a deeper connection to God and His purpose for you on this earth? Do you wish you had more desire to pray, and could keep your mind on what God might want for your day a little longer? Try thinking of God, your Triune God, several times each day. When you look in the clouds think of God and talk to each person of the Trinity. As you are reading your Bible and come to the word for God such as Lord or God, think of that verse in the context of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

Paul did this for us in Romans 8:15-17 when He described how uniquely we are related to all three persons of the Trinity—Spirit makes us sons of God, Spirit makes us cry Abba, and testifies that we are co-heirs with Christ. Thank you blessed Trinity.