Should we repeat the Lord’s Prayer?-free important bible question and answers download

Should we repeat the Lord’s Prayer?-free important bible question and answers download

Should we repeat the Lord’s Prayer?

 

Because in certain Churches the members repeat the Lord’s Prayer like a parrot without understanding or feeling, the other churches don’t say the Lord’s Prayer at all. This is like throwing away the baby with the bath water. Disuse is not the solution for meaningless use. Many Christians shout Hallelujah without their heart in it. Should we then stop saying this wonderful heavenly word of praise? Blind reactions will rob us of rich blessings.

 

The common weakness of all of us is that "we do not know what we should pray for as we ought" (Rom 8:26). Also our prayer life needs lot of unlearning. Many times we pray like the heathen. The Lord’s prayer is a model prayer. It is the first prayer to learn in Christ’s school of prayer. Heathenic praying is known for vain repetitions and wrong priorities. Only one out of seven requests in the Lord’s Prayer relates to our bodily needs. How much our prayers will be revolutionized if only they are patterned after the Lord’s Prayer! (Mt 6:7-13). New believers and children must be encouraged to memorize the Lord’s Prayer which is the most comprehensive prayer of all time.

 

Luke records that the Lord taught this prayer in response to the request of one of His missionary disciples when they returned from their first tour(Lk 10:1-5, 17; 11:1-4). He had not let them carry money purse or any bag when they went. Therefore He taught them to pray and trust God for their "daily" bread! Yes, the Lord’s Prayer is truly a missionary prayer. It begins and ends respectively with the focus and goal of missions. I urge soulwinners to say this prayer meaningfully everyday so they may overcome the temptations to strive for their own fame, build their own empires, do things according to their own whims and fancies, etc.

 

Jesus and the apostles often articulated their needs in prayer to God through the very words of the Scripture (Mt 27:46/Psa 22:1; Acts 4:24-26/Psa 2). The Book of Psalms was used as the Book of Prayer and Praise by the Jehovah worshippers. There’s nothing like praying or singing the very Scriptures. The Word of God is the will of God. "If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us!" (1 Jn 5:14).

 

The Lord’s Prayer is also called the Family Prayer. My wife and I say this prayer in our own family devotions each morning. It instills in us a new confidence as we begin the day with "Our Father who is in Heaven!"