President.” It is good to remind ourselves that when we pray, we talk to God.”įirst we must realize that this is a prayer that is stated prior to Jesus going to sit at the right hand side of the Father. Lyndon Johnson’s press secretary, Bill Moyers, was saying grace at a staff lunch, and the President shouted, “Speak up, Bill! I can’t hear a thing!” Moyers quietly replied, “I wasn’t addressing you, Mr. It teaches us that true prayer depends on a spiritual relationship with God that enables us to call Him “Father,” and this can come only through faith in Jesus Christ (Rom. This is a “pattern prayer,” given to guide us in our own praying (see Matt. How easy it is to “recite” these words and not really mean them, but that can happen even when we sing and preach! The fault lies with us, not with this prayer. There is nothing wrong with praying this prayer personally or as part of a congregation, so long as we do it from a believing heart that is sincere and submitted. “We call this “The Lord’s Prayer,” not because Jesus prayed it (He never had to ask for forgiveness), but because Jesus taught it. However, in another, more normative sense this truly is the Lord’s prayer because it is what the Lord Jesus taught us to say in our prayer to God the Father, as best stated by Warren Wiersbe who states in his “Wiersbe New Testament Commentary:” In this sense, it could not be the Lord’s Prayer in that he could not say “forgive us our sins.” Again this is only in a certain aspect, but in this aspect it is incorrect to call it the Lord’s Prayer, it is actually the disciples prayer – a prayer that is meant to be spoken from a believer to God. What we first must understand is that when the disciples asked Jesus: “teach us to pray,” in one sense we mis-name this prayer when we refer to this as the Lord’s prayer, as if this is what the Lord Jesus would pray Himself. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.” (Luke 11:1-4)
And forgive us our sins for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us.
Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. “And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
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