David Garland Explores The Significance Of The Lord's Prayer

4. Read John 17:20-23 and you would see the last prayer of Christ before He was arrested. What do you think is the burning desire of the Lord in this prayer? Do you think the answer to the prayer of the Lord is happening in the world today? Explain your answer.

How can God and Evil both exist in the World? I have asked myself this question probably a million times in my 27 years of life and I know I will continue to ask myself this question for the rest of it. If one believes in a higher power how can this higher power allow for such bad things to take place? Many people have this certain image of God as an all-wise, all powerful parent figure who would treat us as our earthy parents do or even better. But when something bad happens to us we somehow may forget all that and want to put the blame on him. But if you think about it who is the one to say that you, yourself are a good person? You may think you are a good person but in the end I truly believe that the Lord our Savior is the only person that can ultimately make that decision. As stated by the author, Dave Earley

We are deeply apologetic towards the Stolen Generation and all the Aboriginal children who were forcibly separated from their families in addition to experiencing intense suffering and homesickness. Furthermore, we are truly repentant towards the disastrous and tragic impacts we have induced upon the children who were taken, their beloved family members and the Indigenous communities.

The ideas in the text influenced me spiritually in the manor of how I have viewed the importance of prayer, as well as individual prayer. I have struggled recently with knowing and understanding the importance of prayer and by reading Teresa’s understanding of prayer it has opened my mind up to the true benefits of spending that quality time alone with God, in prayer. I also have gained an understanding and appreciation for promoting individual prayer within the church. Building strong prayer with oneself produces great relationships with God and with

The girl said something, and Blur decided to not pay attention to her at all. Blur knew that she must stop at some point, but when she looked back at the girl, she was still next to her, and her mouth was moving.

Praying together as a Body of Christ helps us to give our dignity to those who need it. Everyone deserves dignity because we are all God’s people. Praying

The Lord’s Prayer as we call it – Really should be called the Model Prayer. Jesus was teaching the disciples and us that we should pray with this model so that we will include everything that we need to say in a prayer.

Prayer is often a thing that is neglected because of various reasons. We are told in Romans 12:12 to “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” This is similar to Matthew 6: 5-8, which talks about how and where to pray. “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” After explaining this, Jesus says the Lord’s Prayer and talks about forgiveness. Prayer is very crucial part in your relationship with God. Through prayer, you are able to talk to God and tell him about your fears and struggles. This is why you should be devoted and faithful in prayer.

In all gospels, moments of Jesus praying, either when up on a mountain or in privacy, can be most found in Luke’s Gospel (Luke 5:12, 16, and 22:40). Compared to other three gospels, Luke places the strongest emphasis on prayer. He often records instances of Jesus praying before His teachings. The act of praying is a means for Jesus to express His love and fellowship towards the Father God. In Luke 11:1-4, when the disciples see Jesus praying, they curiously asked him to “teach us to pray”. Jesus then delivers His teaching that one should first pray for the Kingdom of God to come and then for the basic necessities of life. This Lord’s Prayer serves as a backdrop for the parable presented after, which is Jesus’ teaching on the perseverance in prayer. Jesus teaches, “even though he will not get up and give you anything because he is his friend, at least because of his persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs” (Luke 11: 8). This resembles how we feel when we pray sometimes because we feel as if God does not answer our prayers. However, as Jesus says, the friend will eventually answer his friend’s call, but not because he is a friend, but due to his persistence. This parable uses an image of a friend shamelessly asking a favor from his friend at midnight to illustrate that as long as we never give up praying, God will choose the best time to answer our wishes. Jesus further teaches, “Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened” (Luke 11: 9-10). These two verses have a pattern of repetitively asking, searching, and knocking, which metaphorically represents the act of praying. These are all verbs that describe continuous actions. Again, Jesus wants to

“Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be your name. ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. ‘Give us this day our daily bread. ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen’ (Matthew 6:9-13). “Ignorance and infirmity are consequences of sin; and, perhaps nothing more surely proves man’s fallen condition than his inability to pray” (Field 1). Prayer is described as an intimacy with God and the contemplation of the invisible, satisfying our yearnings or desires and giving us an equality much like that of the angels in heaven. It is through prayer that good triumphs evil and sinners are converted. “Prayer is the enjoyment of things present and the substance of things to come” (Hammerling 4). Fleming contends that prayer is to be a strictly confidential matter, to be kept secret even between the best of friends. “God is like a loving father who understands his children’s needs” (417). Through Pope Benedict XVI we find that “In Prayer, Jesus lived in constant and uninterrupted contact with our Lord in order to help fulfil his plan of love for mankind” (118). We find that Hamilton, contends that the Lord’s Prayer is actually a teaching tool designed to teach us the proper way or

you look there is no one but the Beloved?” (84). Prayer allows us to worship and praise

A major aspect of Anglican Spirituality is Prayer and this is clearly seen in the tradition of the Book of Common Prayer and its descendants. It teaches Anglicans to live daily life in closeness with Christ and communally with the Church. It provides patterns and order for the community and the individual on a shared path toward God. Yet prayer is also personal as we seek to know God through our prayers, inviting Him into our lives to provide wisdom, guidance and greater knowledge of Him, asking for his intercession in ours and the world’s needs and offering praise and thanks for what God has continues to do. Prayer is central to Anglican life be it in the quiet solitude of isolation, small groups of the gathered faithful or the central worship of the

For the Prayer Exposition paper, I have selected Palms 5, which is dubbed a prayer for guidance. I selected this prayer primarily because I am a season that I especially need God’s guidance, up close, and personal. It seems that the journey God has me on in this season, sometimes feels overwhelming, and fruitless. Other times, this journey God has me on in this season is full of elation, excitement, empowerment, and intimacy with God. David has a very close and intimate relationship with God, one that I can admit; I yearn to have such a relationship, where I am a man after God’s heart.

Each of these prayers have a different target audience and description based on what the reader is wanting or needing to hear, they also have a major effect on the community of the Church, some have specific community based effects that are better in other specific situations, just like the prayers are for the readers. Below are three of the total of six prayers which are spoken more in-depth of their meaning and effects they have on church goers and the overall community of the church.

And as a body of believers surely, the Lord’s Prayer means something vastly different to an individual however we was giving the Lord’s Prayer as a model of how we should pray. At Mass the priest invited the congregation to “Lift up their hearts” that is what prayer is—lifting our hearts to God. The basic worship in Mass service is surrounding the heart to God to letting him purify and cleanse our heart. The priest led the people as they recited the prayers of the as a body.