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The Lord's Prayer; your prayer


“When you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly” (Matthew 6:6).

 
God is listening…He will answer your prayer of faith.

Our Father…

In (Matthew 6:9-13) Jesus gave His disciples His model for their prayers to God, their heavenly Father. We know His model as; The Lord’s Prayer. We can certainly use these exact words or we may use the structure of this perfect prayer as a model for our approach to God in our prayers. What is important is that when we pray we; (a) praise God (b) acknowledge and submit to His will (c) request His provisions for our lives (d) seek His forgiveness (e) ask Him for deliverance from temptation.  

The Lord’s Prayer confirms for us that God is interested in all aspects of our lives. Our praise and worship of Him in prayer demonstrates how we bow to His authority, His position as our Lord and our Savior, and when we submit ourselves to Him He allows us to come boldly before Him with our petitions.  

As we pray; “Our Father…” what a personal, intimate approach we are making to God. In the first four gospels, Jesus referred to God as Father. He did so more than seventy times in these gospels. This was radical and new since in the Old Testament times it was forbidden to say God’s name (YAHWEH) much less to refer to Him as Father.

May I suggest you take a moment to pray The Lord’s Prayer right now, and as you do carefully consider the full meaning of the every word you are praying. I think too often we ramble it off in church without thinking of what we are actually saying. Don’t be guilty of praying like that instead pray with all knowledge of what you are saying, of what you are asking of God.

God is listening.     

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