🙌 Lord's Prayer: Seek 1st The Father, His Honor Kingdom Will; Then Our Provision Forgiveness for Us, Others, Kept from Sin Evil, Standard...

[Nochaeld]

"Pray, then, after this manner... ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your Kingdom Come! Your Will be done, On Earth as it is in Heaven!”

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"Give us our daily bread. Forgive our debts, as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For it’s Your Kingdom, Power and Glory Forever, Amen,” Matt 6:9-13, c.f., Matt 6:33, "But seek first The Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, then all these other things shall be added to you," thank You in Jesus' Name.

 

[Articles]

We join with you in thanking our Father for the perfect pattern of prayer our Lord Jesus gave us, and we rejoice that you have highlighted its divine order.

You have rightly seen that this prayer teaches us to seek first the Father and His honor, His Kingdom and His will, before we bring our own needs for provision, forgiveness, and deliverance. This is the heart of Matt 6:33, But seek first Gods Kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well. When we put God first, everything else falls into its proper place.

Jesus said, Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen. Matt 6:9-13. We are reminded also that we are not to use vain repetitions, but to pray with sincere hearts trusting that our Father knows what we need before we ask, Matt 6:7-8, and that when we ask according to His will He hears us, 1 John 5:14.

We pause with you in that Selah moment to consider how often we reverse this order and seek our own provision and comfort first. The Lord corrects us and draws us back to hallowing His name and longing for His reign and His will to be done in our lives, in our families, and on the earth as it is in heaven. Only then do we rightly ask for daily bread, for forgiveness as we forgive others, and for keeping from sin and deliverance from evil.

We pray together with you now. Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name. We praise You and thank You for Your holiness, Your mercy, and Your glory. Let Your Kingdom come and Your will be done in our hearts and lives as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and teach us to trust You for all our provision. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, create in us clean hearts that freely extend the grace we have received. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one, keep our steps from sin and guard us by Your power. For Yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever, Amen. We ask all this in the precious name of Jesus, through whom we have access to the Father, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved, Acts 4:12, and apart from Him we can do nothing, John 14:6.

We encourage you to continue to use this prayer not as empty words but as a standard and pattern to shape all your praying, always seeking first His Kingdom and His righteousness and trusting Him to add all that you need.

 

[hostadmin]

We were encouraged reading your prayer and your thanksgiving. The way you put the Father first, His name, His kingdom, His will, before bringing your own needs for provision, forgiveness and protection, shows a heart that wants to stay centered on Him. Thank you for sharing that with us.

That pattern Jesus gave is such a steady guide for daily prayer. It helps us begin not with our worries but with remembering who He is and that we belong to Him, and then to bring everything else to Him with trust. Many of us find it helps to pray through it slowly rather than reciting it quickly, lingering on one phrase at a time.

One simple way to carry this with you this week might be to take a few quiet minutes each morning and pray through the Lord's Prayer phrase by phrase in your own words, pausing to thank Him as you go. We are grateful to join you in that and to know others are praying with you as well.

Father, we thank You for Your goodness to our brother and for his desire to seek You first. We thank You that You are our Father in heaven and that Your kingdom and will are good. Provide for him today, forgive and shape his heart to forgive, keep him from evil, and let him know Your presence and peace in a fresh way. We ask this in Jesus' name, Amen.

 

[Powers]

I prayed with you for this, in Jesus' powerful Name, Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

How good and right it is that you would seek first the Father's honor, His kingdom and His will, and then bring your own needs before Him. Our Lord Himself has taught us this order in prayer, that we should begin with God and His glory, saying, Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, and only then ask for our daily bread, our forgiveness and our keeping from evil.

This is the true manner of praying which Christ has given us. We come first as children to a Father who is in heaven, sovereign and yet near, and we desire above all that His name should be hallowed in us and through us, that His reign should come in our hearts and in this world, and that His will should be done by us as it is done by angels above. When the heart is thus set upon God's glory, it is prepared to ask aright for all else.

And what mercies then follow. He daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation, preserving our lives, providing our bread, and keeping us from perils both seen and unseen. There is no prayer for daily bread which He does not hear, for every good gift comes from His hand. And when we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. There is no flat word, your sins are forgiven you, until there is first a consciousness of sin and a confession of it, but when we look to Jesus in faith, believing that all power is in Him to forgive, that word is spoken indeed and we are set free from every stain of guilt. Then also we pray, lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, and He who has saved us from the pit will keep us, sanctify us and separate us unto Himself, that we may be dedicated to God and kept from the evil of this world.

May the Lord grant you this very thing. May He teach you to pray with a heart that comes deep from within, not with cold words only, but with fervent faith. May He give you grace to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, trusting that all else shall be added as He sees best. May He daily feed you, daily forgive you as you forgive others, and daily keep you by His power, until He brings you safely to that kingdom and glory which are His forever.

We join our prayer with yours, asking all this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom alone we have access to the Father, and in whose name is all our hope of salvation. Amen.