Rose Publishing - The Lords Prayer

The printed version of this eBook is the The Lord's Prayer pamphlet, ISBN-13: 9781596361263

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• Explores the way that Jesus taught his followers to pray through the Lords Prayer. Explains each phrase of the prayer, covers the prayers 7 petitions, and highlights the 3 main purposes of prayer in less than 30 minutes.
• Includes the history of the Lord's Prayer (found in the Books of Matthew and Luke) and why it was different and similar to other prayers of Jesus' time.
• Strengthens believers prayer life by giving them new insights into our Heavenly Father, his power, and forgiveness. Covers the 7 attributes of God, 6 reasons to forgive, and the importance of submitting our will to his will!

Jesus disciples had seen him pray many times. Sometimes he prayed all night and sometimes his prayers were just one sentence. But Jesus followers made the connection between Jesus intense prayer life and the power he showed in every aspect of life. They must have realized that prayer was the link. Finally, one disciple asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. Jesus gave them a deceptively simple, childlike prayer which has come to be known as The Lords Prayer. The prayer is recorded in Luke 11:2-4 and Matthew 6:9-13. Matthews version highlights seven key parts:

Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name,

your kingdom come,

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

Give us today our daily bread.

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

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

Matthew 6:9-13

In this pattern, Jesus provided his followers with guidelines for prayer based on the attributes or characteristics of God.

The two main sections of the prayer divide with the words your and our.

1. The first part centers on God, putting God in his rightful place in our priorities. Only by focusing on the patient and loving Father can we find the attitude that puts our own needs in perspective.
2. The second part focuses on our needsbody, soul, and spiritand the needs of others. In just three brief requests, Jesus targets all of human behavior and character and reminds us that we always need him. Its been said that if these three requests are prayed properly, nothing more need be said. Only in moment-by-moment dependence on God will we experience the good things God wants to provide.

The Lords Prayer is a dangerous, life-changing prayer. Jesus enemies eventually killed him for asserting his close tie to God through addressing God as Father. Until Jesus gave his followers the right to be called children of God, this would have been blasphemy.

Twenty-first-century Christians may take the privilege for granted, but the prayer is still a dangerous one: We do, in one sense, take our lives in our hands and offer them up again and again as sacrifice to the One who gave us all in the first place, receiving all of Life in return.

O ur Father in heaven (NIV)

O ur Father which art in heaven (KJV)

God is a loving and compassionate Father who gives life, provides for and protects those who trust him. Like a caring human father, God wants a close relationship with his children. Addressing God as Our Father plunges the person praying into a relationship. A child approaching a loving father knows that father will give careful attention to the childs requests and will be lovingly inclined towards the childs best interests. The child knows the father will answer. This is how Jesus tells us to approach Godas trusting children of a patient, tender father.

But to all who believed him [Jesus] and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. They are rebornnot with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God. John 1:12, 13 (New Living Translation)

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! 1 John 3:1

Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:16

During Jesus time, people understood God to be awesome, majestic, and far away in the unreachable heavens. Though the Old Testament uses the metaphor of fatherhood when talking of God, no one would have dreamed of addressing God as Father in prayer. Jesus use of the name Abba (like our Daddy) must have stunned his disciples. In fact, Jesus use of the family name was so shocking to the religious leaders of his day that eventually he was accused of blasphemy and crucified for identifying himself as Gods Son!

Jesus taught his followers that they should address God as Father, and that their loving Father would care for all the needs of those who trust in him (see Matthew 7:7-11). Then, not only did Jesus encourage that relationship of trust, but he willingly died a horrible death to purchase the right of believers in Christ to be called children of God! Its hard to comprehend that the God who has all the power in the universe will listen to our prayers because of the actions of his Son, Jesus!

H allowed be your name (NIV)

H allowed be thy name (KJV)

To hallow means to make holy. To hallow Gods name means to honor it as holy and sacred. When we pray, we enter the presence of God with reverence, worship, and thanksgiving. We thank God not only for what hes done, but also for who he is. Gods greatness and glory alone are worthy of praise and thankfulness. Thanksgiving recognizes that everything we have belongs to God, whether it be our talents, possessions, jobs, or children.