The Lord’s Prayer – Our Father
In our previous blog we had an overview of the contents of the Lord’s Prayer; a model for us to follow when we pray to God. Today we will cover the first two words of the Prayer: Our Father.
- God is a father
- God is not like an old king sitting on his throne, whom requires a formal audience if we want to meet him. God is our father. We can approach him with the same confidence (Hebrews 4:16) with which someone approaches his/her loving father.
- If we consider this along with Jesus’ teaching about needing to receive the kingdom like a child (Luke 18:17), our relationship with God should be like that of a child with his/her father. Children do not worry about who will protect them and provide for their needs. They just trust.
- God is my father
- He is God, the creator of all things, but He is also my father. Say it out loud “He is my”
- We didn’t deserve to be loved, for through our sins, we had rejected Him as God. But He didn’t give up on us. He loves us because we are his creation. He loved us so much that
he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life – John 3:16.
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- Though our relationship with God was broken because of sin, we are restored as His children through faith in Jesus.
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But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God – John 1:12-13
- God is our father
- God is not only my father, but also the father of everyone else who believe.
- Jesus could have easily started the prayer with the words “My Father”. However, he intentionally used the words “Our Father”.
- I pray for myself, but I should never forget about others. This is clearly shown throughout the Lord’s Prayer.
- Our father
- Give us
- Forgive us
- Lead us not
- Deliver us
- Though there is a personal perspective in our relationship with God, we should always keep in mind the church perspective.
- There is no space for individualism in our relationship with God. God’s children are meant to grow together.
for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ – Ephesians 4:12b-13
You have a father in heaven. He loves you more than you can imagine. Start trusting Him as His child.
In our next blog, we will continue with the rest of the sections in the prayer.
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