by Pastor Calvin Lee
First Part :
1st petition / declaration
Our father be your name / God you are my father!
# Seek to know God more
(Matthew 6:31-32)
(psalm 20:7)
2nd petition / declaration
Your kingdom come / God you reign!
# Surrender to the lordship of Jesus Christ
3rd petition / declaration
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven / Lord your will be done!
# submit to the ways of God
(the above is a form of Declaration)
2nd part :
1st petition / dependance
Give us this day our daily bread / I'm asking for daily bread : provision
(Philippians 6:19)
2nd petition / dependance
Forgive us our debts as we had forgiven our debtors / I am a sinner and in need of forgiveness : pardon
# You will never fully enter into the freedom of Christ unless you embark onto the path of forgiveness on others
3rd petition / dependance
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the hands of the evil one / I don't want to go on sinning : protection
@ Prayer is about relation not ritual. Prayer is not a formula
@ The focus of prayer must be on God not on self or others
@ Prayer lifts us to have a glimpse of the greater things, the glorious things, global things and most of all, the great God
@ What matters is the heart, not the art of praying
@ When we don't pray we allow our hearts to harden towards God and our thoughts and desires fall out of tune with God
@ When we are in connection with God, we are able to rest in Him, we become stroner spiritually, we are able to forgive one another, and we are able to resist temptation
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