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Our Father Who Is In Heaven
By J Stark | Submitted On January 13, 2016

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Is this simply a prayer recited by many, under varying circumstances or might there be more to these words then fits our eye? We find this prayer in Matthew 6 and again in Luke 11. The disciples were being instructed by Jesus. We have in these two books and chapters a record of Jesus ' lessons and more. There is so much in this discussion with Jesus ' disciples many simply overlook or don 't take for the same value as the Lord 's Prayer which itself is within the same chapters.

The lessons and advice is very pointed but we seldom get beyond the Lord 's Prayer. Why? It is too obvious. We want what fits our lives but not what goes against our preferred lifestyle, attitudes and way of worship; or secular lives. We repeat the prayer out of habit or in our form of worship but seldom listen to what is being recited. The circumstances (Luke 11:1): Jesus had just finished praying and "one of his disciples said to him. 'Lord, teach us to pray". This is a chapter break in Luke, but in Matthew the same request does not come until after a brief explanation of when,

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