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    Exploring the Lord's Prayer
    Exploring the Lord's Prayer
    Exploring the Lord's Prayer
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    Exploring the Lord's Prayer

    By M.R. Hyde

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    Pulling from the breadth of the Bible, M.R. Hyde helps the reader explore some of the depths of the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples. Find new meaning and personal connection to this beloved prayer.

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    PublisherM.R. Hyde
    Release dateDec 3, 2011
    ISBN9781466039902
    Exploring the Lord's Prayer
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    M.R. Hyde

    M.R. Hyde celebrates and explores the known and spiritual world by writing for Christian religious purposes and by penning fiction for the sheer joy of words. She is also an active artist.View the online gallery now at https://www.redbubble.com/people/mrHydeArt/shop.

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      Exploring the Lord's Prayer - M.R. Hyde

      Exploring the Lord’s Prayer

      Copyright 2011 M.R. Hyde

      Blog: http://thewordwwtw.blogspot.com/

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. The NIV and New International Version trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica. Use of either trademark requires the permission of Biblica.

      Contents

      Chapter 1: Our

      Chapter 2: Father

      Chapter 3: In Heaven

      Chapter 4: Hallowed/Holy Be Your Name

      Chapter 5: Your Kingdom Come

      Chapter 6: Your Will Be Done on Earth as it is in Heaven

      Chapter 7: Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

      Chapter 8: And Forgive Us . . .

      Chapter 9: Deliver Us from Evil

      Chapter 10: For Yours is the Kingdom . . . Amen!

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      About the Author

      Chapter 1: Our

      One day the disciples of Jesus Christ asked him for a very particular thing. Lord, teach us to pray. Little did they know when they asked him for this that it would be a prayer that would change their lives. How kind Jesus was to teach these men who had been raised in a religious life! He could have said: Don’t you know how already? or You can figure it out. or It will just come to you. Many of us may feel these things when we begin our prayer life in earnest. We expect that we should just be able to figure it out or we have the expectation that it will just come to us. But what Jesus did was to give us a most remarkable prayer, which is both short and an incredibly powerful means to relationship with God and others as well as the most effective foundation on which to build our prayer life.

      The Lord's Prayer is found in two of the Gospels—Matthew 6:7-15 and Luke 11:2-4. It can be divided into two basic sections. One section focuses on God himself — who he is, where he is from, how we address him and what he gives to us. The other section focuses on our relationship to others and what is required to live in truth and purity.

      We begin with the first phrase Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. From the start Jesus taught the disciples that prayer and life together had everything to do with community. The simple word our frames this prayer in a relational context. It does not begin, My Father or your-father. It begins with "Our Father." This simple word shapes our beginning and our end.

      In Genesis Chapter 1 we see the incredible work of creation that God performed. When we read about the moment of the creation of humanity God said, Let us create man in our image. (v. 26) Did you see that? Us and Our. Often Christians talk about the holy and wonderful mystery of the Trinity — God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Before time began, before there was an earth, God was in his fullness. And as he was, he revealed himself to us in three ways, thereby setting the world into relationship.

      God's desire in creating humankind was that we walk with him and each other. Never were truer words written than those of John Donne (1572-1631) a poet and priest who wrote, No man is an island . . . We were created as a marvelous tiny reflection of God himself — a completely integrated whole. When a man and woman join in holy matrimony, enjoying one another in that blessed union, a child can be born. That child is an individual and yet is made up of parts of the mother and father. Even in conception and childbirth we are part of an incredible created community.

      One of our modern and erroneous thoughts is that what we do does not really matter to anyone else. But that is wrong. What we do matters deeply to God and to each other. My sin affects you and God. My accomplishments help you and God. My fears estrange you and God. My joys encourage you and God. We are all connected to God because he created us. The apostle Paul wrote, If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. (1 Corinthians 12:26)

      Chapter 2: Father

      God is our Father. There are some important things to acknowledge. 1. Not all of us had good fathering experiences. 2. Some of us have suffered greatly or not had a father available. 3. Some of us have experienced excellent parenting. These things profoundly affect how we view God. Because we were born into community, our little hearts and heads looked to our parents as our first forms of provision and care. If we did not get that, or are not getting that kind of provision and care, it translates directly into how we view God.

      For some of us the healing and restoration needed to rightly see God is imperative and it is very available. It may take some time to let the old images of an abusive father, a distant father, or an absent father to fade from your memory. It

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