Matthew 6:9 NIV
This then is how you should pray:
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours
now and forever.
Amen.
Prayer makes a real .
“When I pray, coincidences happen; when I don’t, they don’t.” –William Temple
God is still in .
Jesus taught us to pray will be done not will be done.
“Lead us not into temptation”
πειρασμός peirasmos: Test, examination, trial, temptation.
James 1:3 NIV
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials (periasmois) of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
“God does not test us so that He Himself might know our faith… but that our faith might be made known to ourselves and others.” –Augustine of Hippo, City of God
Testing our inner world so Christ can be .
“Deliver us from evil.”
“The number one reason why prayer malfunctions in the hands of believers is that they try to turn a wartime walkie-talkie into a domestic intercom. Until you believe that life is war, you cannot know what prayer is for.” –John Piper, Prayer: The Work of Mission
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.” –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
You cannot fight evil with .
“You take a stand against the enemy every time you preach the gospel, forgive an enemy, stand up to a bully, care for the poor, create something beautiful, behave with integrity, practice civil disobedience for the sake of righteousness, or take a stance that defies his insidious systems of control.” –Pete Greig, How to Pray
“The call to pray this clause of the prayer is a call to live and pray at the place where the world is in pain, so that the hopes and fears, the joy and the pain of the whole world may, by the Spirit, become the hope and fear, joy and pain of God.” –N.T. Wright, The Lord and His Prayer
“For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever.”
A Mighty Fortress is our God
Martin Luther
A mighty fortress is our God,
a bulwark never failing;
our helper he, amid the flood
of mortal ills prevailing.
For still our ancient foe
does seek to work us woe;
his craft and power are great,
and armed with cruel hate,
on earth is not his equal.
Did we in our own strength confide,
our striving would be losing,
were not the right Man on our side,
the Man of God’s own choosing.
You ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is he;
Lord Sabaoth his name,
from age to age the same;
and he must win the battle.
And though this world, with devils filled,
should threaten to undo us,
we will not fear, for God has willed
his truth to triumph through us.
The prince of darkness grim,
we tremble not for him;
his rage we can endure,
for lo! his doom is sure;
one little word shall fell him.
That Word above all earthly powers
no thanks to them abideth;
the Spirit and the gifts are ours
through him who with us sideth.
Let goods and kindred go,
this mortal life also;
the body they may kill:
God’s truth abideth still;
his kingdom is forever!
Answer Key: difference; charge; thy, my; reveals, glorified; evil