Opening Prayer: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be
your name. Your kingdom come, your will
be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive
our debtors. Lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Scripture: Luke 11:1-13
Journal: What part(s) of the Lord’s Prayer speak to your own
practice of prayer these days? What
parts of it are present and meaningful in your practice? What parts of it are absent? How is God calling you to pray these days?
Reflection:
“Our Father which art in heaven!” To appreciate this word of adoration aright,
I must remember that none of the saints had in Scripture ever ventured to
address God as their Father. The
invocation places us at once in the center of the wonderful revelation the Son
came to make of His Father as our Father too. . . .The words are the key to the
whole prayer, to all prayer. It takes
time, it takes life to study them; it will take eternity to understand them
fully. The knowledge of God’s
Father-love is the first and simplest, but also the last and highest lesson in
the school of prayer. It is in the
personal relation to the living God, and the personal conscious fellowship of
love with Himself, that prayer begins.
It is in the knowledge of God’s Fatherliness, revealed by the Holy
Spirit, that the power of prayer will be found to root and grow. (With
Christ in the School of Prayer by Andrew Murray)
Prayer
Closing Prayer: Lord Jesus, reveal me to the Father. Let His name, His infinite Father-love, the
love with which He loved Thee, according to Your prayer, be in me. Then shall I say aright, “My Father!” Then shall I apprehend Your teaching, and the
first spontaneous breathing of my heart will be: “My Father, Your Name, Your
Kingdom, Your Will.” Amen. (With Christ in the School of Prayer by
Andrew Murray)
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