Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Teach Us To Pray

When Jesus taught His disciples to pray, He said:

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (the evil one).
For Thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

What do all these words mean? What good is it to say them? Did Jesus pray like this all the time?

The Lord's Prayer, as written above, serves as a model for us as children of God as how to pray. In the coming days, we'll look at this prayer more closely and hopefully see what good it does to pray these words that Jesus taught His disciples.

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