{"id":827,"date":"2011-08-04T22:34:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T02:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/?page_id=827"},"modified":"2021-12-04T17:54:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T00:54:46","slug":"the-lords-prayer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/prayers-and-meditations-2\/the-lords-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord’s Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is the prayer that Jesus told us to actually use in one place and upon which to model our own prayers in another. After telling us how not to pray, His words were:\u00a0“After this manner therefore pray ye<\/em>” in the Gospel of Matthew.\u00a0He says\u00a0simply “When ye pray, say<\/em>” in the Gospel of Luke. Why does it seem that\u00a0the world would\u00a0rather any other prayer than this? It is hard to understand why; these are His words, the words of the Master. <\/span>The\u00a0Lord’s Prayer, as it is called by most, or the Our Father as it is call by\u00a0others is a complete prayer for us as individuals though its wording has group import (our Father, forgive us, etc.). We should remember that we each\u00a0are part of the ‘our’ and the ‘us’ and in praying for all we avoid\u00a0the pitfalls of separateness and selfishness.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
The prayer\u00a0begins with acknowledgement of our relationship with our God as the Father\u00a0of all\u00a0followed by our recognition\u00a0that He is in\u00a0heaven. Jesus does not here get into where or what heaven is, He\u00a0leaves it to our own understanding. Next is a line of praise to the Father and then our first prayer request which asks for His Kingdom to come and for His will to be done in our lives on earth as His will is done in heaven. <\/span><\/h5>\n
If we understand\u00a0heaven to be within us and\u00a0that the\u00a0Kingdom is here now then this is asking that His Kingdom come into our conscious lives and that we\u00a0become more able to do His will on Earth. As the Kingdom is within us all, we ask\u00a0that\u00a0the power and the\u00a0glory\u00a0of the Kingdom of God flow through our lives here on Earth.<\/span><\/h5>\n
We next ask for those things that we need to live while knowing\u00a0that He already knows what they are. In asking,\u00a0we should also\u00a0know that they are already provided\u00a0for; it is our daily bread. We should not be praying that we be showered with the riches and with glory of men but rather\u00a0to have what we need to live as Sons of God. <\/span>We then\u00a0ask for forgiveness and, at the same time, acknowledge that\u00a0we are forgiving ALL<\/strong> others. Forgiveness not only for sins or trespasses against us but for any perceived wrong whether it rises to the level of sin or not.<\/span><\/h5>\n
The next line is the more\u00a0difficult to understand as the Lord does not tempt us nor lead us astray. It has been suggested by a eminent Christian writer* that this is a reference to us becoming too big in our spiritual selves\u00a0being tempted by such to think too much of our selves\u00a0and our self-righteousness and our supposed\u00a0place. In this light we should see that we can take our spiritual\u00a0Light from within and from above and let our mortal, carnal\u00a0selves\u00a0abuse it to our own benefit;\u00a0this is a great wrong. This approach does seem much more sensible than those generally accepted in the church.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Next we ask for deliverance from all such evils as we bring upon ourselves in life generally \u00a0and also in this manner of using our Spiritual\u00a0Light for the\u00a0benefit\u00a0of the lower carnal self.<\/span><\/h5>\n
We close with a line of praise\u00a0for the majesty of our God in His eternal nature.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
* Emmet Fox (1886-1951) is the author of many books focused on the New Thought movement in Christianity.<\/span><\/h5>\n
This version is from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.<\/span><\/h5>\n

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