A series of meditations on prayer
Mat. 6 v 9 – 13 HCSB
“Therefore, you should pray like this:
Our Father in heaven, Your name be honored as holy.
Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today
our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our
debtors. And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Jesus gave us the
model prayer so that we can learn from it how to pray. From this example prayer
our Lord teaches that there are three issues we need to consider regarding the
content of our prayers.
1. The huge scope of
the content:
In this prayer, Jesus
teaches us to pray for all our spiritual and physical needs.
2. There is a
specific order:
The Name of the Lord,
His kingdom and the good will of the Father comes first. Only then does the
plea around our daily needs, the forgiveness of sins, and the preservation of
our lives follow. Then the prayer concludes with worship of, and the expression
of trust in Him to Whom the power and glory belong.
3. This prayer is a
clear example:
Jesus gave us this
prayer as an example so that we can learn what to focus on in our prayers.
However, this does
not mean that we should only pray the words as given to us here. However, the
issues raised here are important.
With our next few
daily devotions, we will focus in more detail on the content of this example
prayer.
Amen
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