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How to Pray: Lessons from the Lord’s Prayer is unavailable, but you can change that!

When the disciples overheard the Lord Jesus praying, they felt like children in the school of prayer. They truly longed to be able to pray like Jesus but didn’t know how. So, on one occasion, they said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples” (Luke 11:1). The result? The greatest example of prayer known to man—the Lord’s Prayer. There is danger in familiarity. The words of...

we might be enabled to hallow His name as we ought—or as much as it is possible for redeemed sinners so to do. Hallowing God’s name involves worshipping God, that is, extolling His great worth. Worship gives verbal expression to the inward, God-ward reverence of our hearts. The Psalms are a great aid in this respect. The Psalms bring our minds back into focusing on the true God, and give a verbal articulation to the worship of our hearts which is unsurpassed. The Psalms may be considered as the divinely
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