![]() Finally, they are told to ask for forgiveness as they do the same for others and then for God’s help in avoiding temptations (but really, “trials” or “tests” in the Greek) and to deliver them from evil or the Evil One, meaning Satan and His demons. They are also told to pray for their daily bread which could mean their sustenance but no less than their daily intake of the Word of God. Next, Jesus says to pray for God’s will here on earth as it’s already being done in heaven. Jesus didn’t just say “our Father” as a poetic expression of God because once a person is born again, they are a child of God and so Jesus is specific and uses the words “our Father” showing that the disciples are part of the family of God so when the disciples are to pray, God is to be referred to as “our Father” followed by hallowing or holding His name as holy and with high regard. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” ![]() Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:9b-13 “ Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Is it okay to repeat this prayer in church?ĭoes the so-called “Lord’s Prayer” count as our own private, individual prayer?ĭo you have a “mountain place” like a prayer closet to pray in private? Since He was God and was with God in the beginning (John 1), why did Jesus need to pray? The disciples wanted to know “how” to pray, not “what” to pray. The disciples must have noticed the frequency and intensity of Jesus’ prayers and so it shouldn’t surprise us that they wanted to ask Jesus how to pray, right after He “ was in a certain place praying” and so when the disciples came to Jesus, I noticed they didn’t ask “Lord, teach us how to preach” or “Lord, teach us how to heal” but they came to Him and asked, “ Lord, teach us to pray” or how to pray so Jesus said “ When you pray, say” (Luke 11:2a), not “When you pray, repeat this.” Matthew’s account of the so-called “Lord’s Prayer” says, “ Pray then like this” (Matt 6:9a) so Jesus is giving them a pattern to pray, not a specific prayer to pray. Luke 11:1 “ Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” On another occasion, Jesus “ went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God” (Luke 6:12) so Jesus saw the necessity of prayer and in many ways, set an example for us. When evening came, he was there alone” (Matt 14:23). One long day, after Jesus was teaching the crowds, “ he dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. To know more about prayer, we don’t have to look much further than Jesus Christ Who devoted much time to prayer and often at night in secluded areas. God, as a benevolent God, gives good things to His children but also “ makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matt 5:45). It’s coming to God Who as the Father of His children and asking for His blessing, intervention, and sustenance. Prayer is essentially talking to God but in a deep, holy, and reverential way. Here is a Sunday school lesson or Bible study lesson on prayer that I hope will help you know how to pray better.
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