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Prayer can be a challenge for many people. Christians often go through the motions, but are left wondering if their prayers are even heard, or if they matter. In Praying the Lord’s Prayer, Packer presents a powerful truth: that prayer is a natural activity between the Heavenly Father and his children. As Packer works through each phrase of the Lord’s Prayer, readers will begin to grasp the basic...

children of God” (John 1:12). Paul states this as the purpose of the incarnation: “God sent forth his Son … so that we might receive adoption as sons” (Galatians 4:4, 5). Prayer to God as Father is for Christians only. This resolves a puzzle. Elsewhere Jesus stressed that his disciples should pray in his name and through him—that is, looking to him as our way of access to the Father (see John 14:6, 13; 15:16; 16:23–26). Why is there none of this in the model prayer? In fact, the point is present
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