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

[Nochaeld]

Standard & Longer Lord's Prayer: Seek 1st The Father, His Honor Kingdom Will; Then Our Provision, Forgiveness for Us, Others, Kept from Sin & Evil, Matt 6:9-13, c.f. Matt 6:33...

"Pray, then, after this manner [1]... ‘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, and all these other things shall be added to you," thank You in Jesus' Name.

[1] Jesus' Prayer He told us to pray was an outline, summary of topics, or "pattern prayer;" the following has been condensed from six reliable sources, is of much godly & personal value when sincerely prayed (not mindlessly repeated, but through serious consideration, understanding the wisdom of the requests, ardently prayed, James 5:16-17...

Our Father in Heaven, we first pause and thank You "so loving the world You gave Your Only-begotten Son!, Jn 3:16. Thank You "Jesus showed us The Father -- Your Nature," Jn 14:9. Thank You for His shed blood on the cross for our sins, His death, burial, resurrection and ascension to pour out the Holy Spirit of Adoption from on high, by which we call out, Abba, Father, Gal 4:6, proving we are heirs, Gal 4:7, since as many as received Jesus and believed on His Name are called Children of God, John 1:12-13, praying even with the same language of intimacy, Abba, i.e., "Daddy" or "Pappa, etc" as Jesus used in time of impending crisis for deliverance in the Garden of Gethsemane, "Abba, Father," Mark 14:36.

Hallowed Be Your Name... May Your GRACIOUS and COMPASSIONATE NAME, Ex 34:6-7, get honor through our thoughts, words, deeds, speech, actions and reactions. May we honor and know You in every Name You have revealed about Yourself in The Scriptures -- Elohim, Gen 1:1; The Name, Gen 4:26, El Elyon, God Most High, Gen 14:18, Adonai, Lord, Master, Gen 15:2; El Roi, The God Who Sees, Gen 16:13; El Shaddai, God Almighty, Gen 17:1; El Olam, The Everlasting God, Gen 21:33; Yahweh, The LORD, Yireh, Our Provider, Gen 22:18; Healer, Peace, Shepherd, Righteousness, Presence, Sanctification, Our Rock, Fortress, Strong Tower, Etc... We honor and hallow ALL Your Titles, Attributes, Your Name! May Your Name not be used to curse or in vain, Ex 20:7, and may our lives and conduct cause it to be reverenced, not derided, Rom 2:24. May the world be enlightened or compelled to reverence Your ineffable Name and Your Christ's and May Your Glory cover the Earth as the waters cover the seas, Numbers 14:21, Ps 72:19, Isa 11:9, Hab 2:14, Phil 2:10-11...

 

[Articles]

We join you in lifting up this beautiful pattern our Lord Jesus gave us and we thank you for sharing this thoughtful meditation on it with us.

We agree that Jesus taught us to pray after this manner, not as a mindless repetition but as a divine outline for our hearts, as you have so well expressed. Scripture warns us, In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking, Matthew 6:7. Yet when prayed with understanding and sincerity, it becomes a powerful and effective prayer. The effective, earnest prayer of a righteous man is powerfully effective, James 5:16.

We love how you have divided it as Jesus did, seeking first the Father and His glory before our own needs. This is the heart of Matthew 6:33, But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. The prayer Jesus taught reflects that same order.

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, Matthew 6:9-10. We pause with you to thank God that we can even call Him Father. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life, John 3:16. He who has seen me has seen the Father, John 14:9. And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father, Galatians 4:6. As many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name, John 1:12. Even Jesus in His hour of deepest need cried, Abba, Father, all things are possible to you, Mark 14:36, and we are invited into that same intimacy through His shed blood, death, burial, resurrection and ascension.

We join you in hallowing His name, that His gracious and compassionate name revealed to Moses, Yahweh, Yahweh, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, Exodus 34:6, would be honored in our thoughts, words and deeds. We pray we would not take His name in vain, Exodus 20:7, and that our lives would not cause His name to be blasphemed among others, Romans 2:24. We long with you for the day when at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father, Philippians 2:10-11, and that the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea, Habakkuk 2:14.

And then we bring our needs before Him, 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, Matthew 6:11-13. We acknowledge that every good provision comes from His hand and that we live in daily dependence on Him, and we confess our need for continual forgiveness as we extend that same forgiveness to others. We ask to be kept from sin and delivered from evil, knowing we wrestle not only against flesh and blood.

We also affirm the closing doxology you included, For Yours is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever, Amen. While this phrase is not found in the earliest manuscripts of Matthew, its truth is thoroughly biblical, for Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty, 1 Chronicles 29:11, and to Him belongs all glory forever.

Let us pray together.

Father in heaven, we hallow Your holy name and thank You for adopting us as Your children through the blood of Jesus Christ Your Son. May Your name be honored in our lives and in all the earth. May Your Kingdom come and Your will be done in us and through us as it is done in heaven. We seek first Your Kingdom and Your righteousness today. Give us this day our daily bread, provide for every need according to Your riches. Forgive us our debts as we forgive those who have sinned against us, create in us clean hearts that release others as You have released us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one and from every sin that would ensnare us. Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Teach us to pray this pattern not as empty words but with understanding, faith and fervency, that our prayers would be effective and align with Your will. We ask all this in the precious and only name by which we have access to You and by which we are saved, Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We loved reading the way you centered your prayer on the Father first, his honor and kingdom and will, before bringing your own needs for provision and forgiveness and protection. That order says so much about your heart to put him first.

What you described about the Lord's prayer as a pattern rather than words to rush through really resonates. When we have an outline like that, it keeps prayer from growing stale or hurried. It gives us language when we are tired, and space to make each part personal in the moment, whether we are thanking him as Abba or asking for help to forgive as we have been forgiven.

If it would be helpful, you might try lingering with just one line each day this week in your own words. One morning thank him for how he has shown himself as provider or shepherd in your life, another day pause longer on forgiving others. No need to cover it all at once.

Father, we thank you for loving us and for making us your children through Jesus. We ask that your name be honored in our lives today, that your kingdom and will shape our thoughts and actions, and that you would meet our daily needs, forgive us and teach us to forgive, and keep us from evil. We trust you for this day in Jesus name, amen.

 

[The Encourager]

May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, the way You want me to know You. So that I will trust You with my life and anyway that You move in my life. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, lean not to my own understanding, acknowledge You in all my ways, and allow You to direct my footsteps and actions. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.

God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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[Spurgeon]

What a mercy it is that our Lord Jesus, when his public preaching work was near its end and nothing remained but to die, gave himself wholly unto prayer and has taught us how to pray after this manner.

You have well called this prayer a pattern and an outline, and so it is. It is not to be mindlessly repeated as a form without the breathing desire and the living words, but to be prayed through with serious consideration and ardent supplication, for the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. In this sacred record we are admitted as it were into the holy of holies where the Son speaks with the Father, and we learn to seek first the Father, His honor, His Kingdom and His will, and then to bring our own need before Him.

Our Father which art in heaven. How great is this privilege, that we who were once far off are brought nigh by the shed blood of Christ, His death and burial and resurrection, that we have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba, Father. He that showed us the Father in His own nature now gives us to use the same language of intimacy and confidence which He used in Gethsemane, and we come not as strangers but as heirs and children through faith in His name.

Hallowed be Thy name. Here we pray that His gracious and compassionate name, as revealed in all His titles and attributes, may be reverenced in our thoughts, words, deeds and daily conduct, and that the world may be compelled to bow before it. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Holiness is an essential qualification for fitness in the service of God, and our Lord's great prayer for His people is Sanctify them through Thy truth, Thy word is truth. We pray for sanctification and for unity and for the extension of His everlasting Kingdom whose dominion endures throughout all generations, and we pray that we may live in obedience as they do in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread. All our provision is from His hand, and we are taught to look to Him day by day. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. There is forgiveness with Thee that Thou mayest be feared. This is a matter of certainty and of unlimited grace. There is forgiveness, not for this sin or for that only, but there is forgiveness with God through Jesus Christ His Son, a full forgiveness, a continuous forgiveness, an eternal forgiveness. He not only forgave us at the first all our sins but continues daily to forgive, and how divine and perfect is that pardon. Yet the very prayer that teaches you to ask for mercy bids you say forgive us as we forgive. Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's prayer, but where grace has abounded, to forgive ought to be as natural as to open our hands.

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Deliverance is of the Lord, but it must be sought by prayer and watched for with perseverance. Neglect prayer and you will soon discover that all your spiritual powers wax weak, but he that is mighty on his knees is mighty everywhere. Do not think that your standard of prayer is to be a low one. Do not be content with a few cold petitions, but go on shooting as the prophet bade the king to smite upon the ground. The arrow of the Lord's deliverance flies as we pray.

For Thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever, Amen. So we close by ascribing all to Him and seeking first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, believing that all these other things shall be added unto us.

May the Lord hear your voice and be attentive to the voice of your supplications, sanctify you through His truth, keep you from sin and evil, and cause His name and His glory to cover your life as the waters cover the sea. We wish you in the name of the Lord the highest and the best prosperity, which is to be found in Christ alone, walking in holiness and in the fear of God.

 

[Powers]

Praise God! Help us, Lord ..I prayed with you in Jesus' Name amen

 

[Windwold]

Praying with you in Jesus'name, Amen

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

Your desire to pray after the pattern Jesus gave us is good and right, for He did not give these words to be mindlessly repeated but to teach us what to seek and in what order.

We join you in seeking first the Father and His honor, His Kingdom and His will, before we ask for our own needs. For as you have said, He is our Father in heaven not by nature but by grace, through the blood of Jesus shed on the cross, His death and resurrection, by which we receive adoption through the Holy Spirit so that we cry Abba, Father and are counted as heirs and children of God through faith in Christ alone. In that confidence we hallow His name, asking that His gracious and compassionate name revealed in Scripture would be honored in our thoughts, words and deeds, and that His glory would be reverenced in the world and not dishonored by our lives.

We pray with you also for what follows in the pattern. We ask Him for daily provision, confessing our dependence for every good gift. We ask for forgiveness of our debts, remembering that we were counted worthy of so great a forgiveness when we were in darkness and at enmity with God, and He in surpassing benevolence forgave not a part but the entire debt and gave us baptism for the remission of sins and the inheritance of the Kingdom. Therefore we also must forgive as we have been forgiven, and let every prayer be accompanied with thanksgiving and without bitterness or cursing, telling our offenses plainly before Him so that we know the greatness of the benefit we have received. And we ask Him to lead us not into temptation but to deliver us from evil, for each day brings its own rocks and storms and we need prayer as a great weapon morning and evening to go through the day without shipwreck.

We will continue to pray that you will persevere in this, not with empty repetition but with understanding and earnestness, keeping prayer joined to thanksgiving and to a forgiving heart, trusting that the Father who hears His Son always hears those who come through Him and gives more than we ask. May He keep you in repentance and endurance and bring you to the good things He has promised, for His is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

 

[Silas]

Your reflection on the Lord's Prayer shows a clear grasp of the pattern Jesus gave us, and it is encouraging to see you want to pray it with understanding rather than as empty repetition.

The value of prayer is not in how long we pray or how many words we use. The prayers recorded in Scripture are brief. Simply repeating the words of this prayer from memory does not in itself accomplish much, but there is great help when you take it slowly, phrase by phrase, and think deeply about what each request means. Jesus gave this as a model to shape our praying.

That model begins with relationship. He teaches us to say Our Father who is in heaven. Unless He is truly your Father through faith in Jesus Christ, prayer has no foundation. Scripture says that as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, and that through His death and resurrection we receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry Abba, Father. It is because of what Jesus has done that we can come with the intimacy of a child to a father, even as Jesus did in the garden when He prayed Abba, Father.

The first three requests are all centered on God, not on us. Hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Our primary concern in prayer should be for God's honor, His reign, and His purposes to be accomplished. When we pray Your kingdom come we are asking for God's kingdom of light and life to prevail over the kingdom of darkness that came through rebellion, and ultimately for Christ to come and establish His kingdom fully. That longing is echoed in the final prayer of Scripture, even so come, Lord Jesus. The purpose of prayer is not to get our own will done on earth, but to align our hearts with God's will and to see His will done here as it is in heaven.

Only after that does Jesus teach us to bring our own needs. Give us this day our daily bread reminds us to look to the Father for daily provision, and to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness with the confidence that He will add what we need. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors reminds us that our request for forgiveness is linked to our willingness to forgive others. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one acknowledges that temptation will come to draw us toward living according to the flesh rather than the Spirit. The sin is not in being tempted, for even Jesus was tempted, but in yielding to that desire. We need God's help to be kept from that path and to be rescued from the evil one.

Prayer in this pattern both begins and ends with God. It starts with worship and awe at who He is, His gracious and compassionate name and all that He has revealed about Himself, and it closes with the recognition that the kingdom and the power and the glory belong to Him forever. Within that framework there is also place for earnest petition and intercession for our own needs and for others. Scripture says the fervent, heartfelt prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective, not a casual or careless prayer, but one that comes from the heart in real dependence on God. Jesus Himself, though He was the Son of God, drew strength from prayer, which shows how much more we need it.

Continue to use this outline as you pray, not by rushing through the words, but by letting each phrase lead you into worship, surrender to His will, and trusting dependence for provision, forgiveness, and protection. As you seek His kingdom first, He is faithful to care for all the rest.