The Lord's Prayer is a Daily Skelton (TMF:1237)

Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Peace to Live By: The Lord's Prayer is a Daily Skelton (TMF:1237) - Daniel Litton
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       So, now, we are at the start of The Lord’s Prayer. Jesus gave us those two preliminary warnings before he jumped into the prayer, and now we are at the prayer. Now, again, while this prayer is often used in a corporate, collective sense, I want us to realize today that really this prayer, I believe, is also for daily, individual use. Midway through the prayer, Jesus says, “Give us this day our daily bread.” I think this captures the fact that this prayer is a daily prayer that is to be recited by Jesus’ disciples. I would also like to state that this prayer being a model prayer is also a skeleton. In other words, this is just a basic rundown of the order of what we are to say to God and also the different areas of which we are to pray to God. Interestingly enough, I think this prayer, when really analyzed, as we are going to try to do, actually captures all the specific areas of our praying. What I mean is that anything you want to pray to God usually can be fit somewhere into Jesus’ formula here.