How to Pray: Lessons from the Lord’s Prayer (Biblia.com)

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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...

His (God’s) kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well (Matthew 6:33). The first and foremost commandment is likewise concerned with God’s honour and glory. God commands: You shall have no other gods before Me (Exodus 20:3). In this first petition of the perfect prayer, we pray that God would enable us to hallow His name. To hallow means ‘to set apart as holy’. God’s ‘name’ refers to the revelation of Himself—His very person and character. Hallowing

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