Prayer

My beliefs of Prayer

I believe that Prayer is God's way of creating a relationship with us personally and as a group and to maintain that relationship.

A very big word in the statement above is "maintain". Maintain - uphold, preserve, keep, keep up, continue, sustain, retain, (Antonym) (opposite) destroy.

As Jesus taught us to Pray:

Our Father who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy 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.

A closing doxology, "For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory," was added to the prayer in ancient times, although it does not appear in most manuscripts of the Bible and is only a footnote in the Revised Standard Version. Its incorporation into the Lord's Prayer as early as the 1st century is attested by the version of the prayer in the Didache, a brief manual of instruction for converts to Christianity. Many Protestants ordinarily recite the doxology as part of the Lord's Prayer; Roman Catholics incorporate it into the recitation of the prayer at Mass, but generally do not use it in private recitation.

The seven petitions of the prayer are modeled on the Psalms. The first three petitions are concerned with the glorification of God, and the last four are requests for divine assistance to humankind. The prayer reflects a community based on an eschatological hope, that is, a community praying for the completion of God's final plan. The petitions concerning forgiveness, temptation, and deliverance from evil are, in fact, best understood in relation to the end times. The prayer is actually a synthesis of the Christian faith; its balanced structure makes it an expression of the biblical hierarchy of values: first the things of God, then human concerns.

After baptism, the Lord's Prayer is the best-known bond of unity among Christians of every tradition and is always recited in ecumenical gatherings. The following contemporary version of the prayer, used especially in Protestant and Roman Catholic youth services, was approved by an international and ecumenical body known as the International Consultation on English Texts.

Our Father in heaven,
holy be your Name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Do not bring us to the test
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory
are yours now and for ever.

from:
http://www.ecumenicalrosary.org/prayers_miracles.htm

^{PS 1:2

But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and
on his law he meditates day and night.

^{PS 1:3} He is like a tree planted by streams
of water

which yields its fruit in season

and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever
he does prospers.

I hope that some of this information will help in your life.}

Prayer

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