*EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️
Sat/05th/March/2022
*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach)
_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_
*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (48)*
Pray then like this: "Our Father 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 lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (Mat 6:9-13). "The Lord's prayer" is familiar to many, but how many who repeat it understand what they are actually praying? Jesus never intended for people to mindlessly repeat this prayer over and over, as some do. More than being a specific prayer to be repeated word for word, the "Lord's prayer" as so called, was meant to be an outline. Memorization is good and has an important purpose, the problem with it is that, once we learn the words, we often fail to consider what they mean. This outline contains seven petitions. The number seven often connotes perfection or completion in Scripture, and the Lord's prayer is just that - a complete and perfect summary of divine teachings.
The prayer opens simply enough, with an address to _Our Father, who art in heaven._ This address reaffirms our core belief as Christians that God is our celestial Father, both with us and in spirit and above us in the perfect realm of heaven. This opening address also unites Christians worldwide into one community of worshipers as we pray to "our" Father and not individually to "my" Father, though God is individually your Father. The Lord's prayer is much more than a handy guide on what to pray when no other words come to mind. The prayer, if we meditate on each petition, serves as a moral compass that reveals the best way to go before the Father in requesting His guidance and protection. The Lord's prayer focuses our thoughts on what is important in life by summarizing all that we must do to be "good and faithful servants," namely: revere God, accept His will, know His Word and do it, love each other through forgiveness, resist evil.
*EXCELLENCE KEY* 🗝️
_The Lord's prayer focuses our thoughts on what is important in life by summarizing all that we must do to be "good and faithful servants."_
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*Excellence is within you. Bring it out >>*
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