confidence that He will hear. Depending on who you ask, it is composed of six or seven petitions, the first three focused on God’s holy character and rule and the latter three or four concerned with invoking God’s help in some way.2 In what follows, we will inch our way through each petition, drawing on the writings of the church fathers, the Protestant Reformers, and more recent Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant theologians and preachers to draw out the significance of Jesus’ words for Christian