Living the Lord’s Prayer
[”For
samples of vain repetitions, see I Kings 18:26; Acts 19:34.” McGarvey]
For many people the “Lord’s Prayer” represents the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. Jesus gave it as a pattern
of how people may approach GOD in prayer.
We pray as God’s children!
1. A PATTERN FOR PRAYER.
“Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may Your
Name be kept holy. May Your Kingdom come soon. May Your Will be done on
earth, as it is in heaven. Give us today the food we need, and
forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us. And
don’t let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one. For Yours is the Kingdom and the Power and
the Glory forever. Amen.” Matt 6:9-13 (NLT)
[Some add: In the Name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Matt. 28:19-20. New people are
being born every day and need to be added to the Kingdom.]
a) Our
Father.
“And He has made from one blood every nation
of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their
preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they
should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him,
though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and
have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His
offspring.' “ Acts 17:26-29
b) May Your Name be kept holy.
“For I am the Lord your God. You shall
therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither
shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
For I am the Lord who brings you up out of the land of Egypt
c) May Your Will be done.
“Instead you ought to say, "If
the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that." But now you
boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Therefore, to him who knows
to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” James 4:15-17
d) Give us this day the food we need.
“For after all these things the Gentiles
seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But
seek first the kingdom
of God
e) And forgive us our sins.
"For if you forgive men their
trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not
forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” Matt 6:14-15
f) Don’t let us yield to temptation.
“Now all these things happened to them as
examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the
ages have come. Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he
fall. No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man;
but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are
able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be
able to bear it.” 1 Cor 10:11-13
g) Rescue us from the evil one.
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord
and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you
may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not
wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of
wickedness in the heavenly places.” Eph
6:10-12
h) Yours is the Kingdom, the Power, the
Glory, Forever!
“Then I looked, and I heard the
voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders;
and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of
thousands, saying with a loud voice: "Worthy is the Lamb who was
slain To receive power and riches and wisdom, And strength and honor and glory
and blessing!" And every creature which is in heaven and on the
earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them,
I heard saying: "Blessing and honor and glory and power Be to Him who sits
on the throne, And to the Lamb, forever and ever!" Then the four
living creatures said, "Amen!" And the twenty-four elders fell down
and worshiped Him who lives forever and ever.”
Rev 5:11-14
The angels of heaven join the Created and
the Redeemed to praise Jesus for His act of death which sets men free from the
results of sin. Christ demonstrated that He is “worthy” by His heroic sacrifice
(Eph 3:8-11). Every being joins in the
chorus of praise to God and the Lamb. It is God’s act in Jesus the Lamb, which
allows God to give the verdict of “not guilty” in regard to those who were
“paid for” by the death of Christ. The total Universe shares in the benefits of
this act. (Romans 8:19-22).
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