The Lord's Prayer in Ps

Privilege or maybe something to do with Paternity! - "Our Father in heaven"

Priorities - "hallowed be your name, your kingdom come"

Provision please - "give us today our daily bread"

Pardon & pardoning - "forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us"

Protection - "lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil"

Praise / Perpetual Power - "for yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory for ever and ever. Amen."

Maybe from the context one could also talk about Pagan prattling prayer, Pharisaical posing prayer and Private prayer. The Lord's Prayer is a pattern prayer.

Other suggestions?

This can all get a bit silly, of course, but thanks to JR @ IME for getting us going on this!

Lord's Prayer - hnadout / notes

Here's a Word document with a couple of pages of A4 notes / handout on The Lord's Prayer.

Prayer Seeking Understanding

On the Lord's Prayer:

Of course we should seek to pray this prayer with understanding, with our minds engaged.

But it's no good waiting 'till we fully understand this prayer before we pray it. If we did that, we'd never pray it.

It's as we pray this prayer, and seek to live in the light of it, and think about too, that our understanding of it will grow.

It gives us a great vision that summarizes the message of the whole Bible.

Our Father

Recently I preached 4 sermons on The Lord's Prayer. I haven't opened it, but if I had had it at the time, I certainly would have read Rev'd Richard Coekin's new book, Our Father:Enjoying God in prayer (IVP, 2009), which is due out on 17th July and was handed out free to the lucky customers at EMA.