Prayer 12 - Our Father

 

A series of meditations on prayer

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The 1st Medetation Prayer 01 - Why should a believer pray?

The Previous Medetation: Prayer 11 - For Yours is the kingdom and thepower and the glory forever – Amen

This is the last Meditationin this series on prayer

Prayer 12

Our Father

Our Father in heaven.

You are through Christ our Father and therefore we come to You in faith knowing that You will hear our prayer and that You in Your omnipotence will provide for us in everything we need for body and soul.

 

Your name be honored as holy.

Help us to know You right so that we can sanctify, praise and glorify You in all Your works in which Your omnipotence, wisdom, goodness, justice, mercy and truth shine forth.

 

Grant that we, in our whole life, thoughts, words and deeds will focus on the fact that your Name is not blasphemed for our sake, but is honored and praised.

 

Your kingdom come.

Rule us so by Your Word and Spirit so that we will submit to You more and more. Preserve your church and let it grow. Destroy the works of the devil, every power that rises up against You, and every malicious plan devised against Your holy Word, until the perfection of Your kingdom comes, in which You will be all in all.

 

Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Grant that we and all men may give up our own will to obey your will, which alone is good, without any contradiction, so that each may exercise and carry out his office and profession just as willingly and faithfully as the angels in heaven.

 

Give us today our daily bread.

Provide us with all that is necessary for the body, so that we thereby acknowledge that You are the only Source of all that is good and that all our worries and labors and also Your gifts can not benefit us without Your blessing. Grant, therefore, that we may diminish our confidence from all creatures, and place it on You alone.

 

Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Do not hold us, poor sinners, accountable for all our transgressions, and for the wickedness which we have committed, because of the blood of Christ. We pray this of You because we find this proof of Your grace in us. Give us the serious intention to forgive our neighbor wholeheartedly.

 

And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

We are so weak in ourselves that we cannot stand for one moment. In addition, our mortal enemies, the devil, the world, and our own sinful nature, do not stop attacking us. Keep us standing and strengthen us through the power of your Holy Spirit, so that we can offer strong opposition to them and not fail in this spiritual battle, until we finally achieve the victory completely.

 

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.

We pray all this of You, because You as our King, who has power over everything, wants to and can give us all good things so that we do not appropriate the glory for ourselves, but that Your holy Name will be praised forever

Amen