The Lord said; "pray LIKE this" . … It doesn't have to be the exact same. Jesus's intention was to give us a guide, of sorts. Below, I will expound on the model prayer pictured above.
This is such a well-known prayer that somewhere, someone in the world is saying this prayer at the same time you are !
Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be your name. ...
The use of "father" in the original language is the same inflection as how one would call out to their earthly father; Daddy, Papa, etc. While keeping that in mind, understand, we are talking to God who hears from His side of existence. Our Father created everything observable, indeed His name is to be hallowed. God is everything, as everything came from Him. We are immersed in His creation.
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven. …
Until the Lord comes to us, ask God to influence our fallen side of physical existence to be as much as Heaven as it can be through seeking His insight, His will, and His way. Ask the Lord to override your will, and your compliance rate will improve because you will notice how well things turn out when you follow the will of God.
Give us this day our daily bread. ….
Food is much harder to come by for many, as a matter of fact, most face challenges in obtaining food worldwide. The daily bread we ask for also extends to our income sources too. God said in the Bible we are going to work to eat, so we need our jobs, if we are able to work. If one is able to work but is not doing so, the Lord will not bless that type of income, but will generally sustain the individual. We in America are extremely blessed. Food is automatic for some, but things can change. One wrong decision, one mistake, and it goes away....it doesn't have to be your mistake, it could be someone else near your life or our government that makes the mistake. Our modern food system is an intricate, amazing system. Worldwide, the hunger rate is not as bad as it has been, but remember, there are folks who ain't got it as good as you do.
and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.. …
The implication here seems to teach us that we ask the Lord to forgive us in the same manner that we forgive other people. Forgive others as you would have the Lord forgive you, YEP! It seems here our forgiveness toward other people is returned from the Lord to us in the same manner. Christ is quoted many times as telling us to love and forgive each other. I'm no Bible scholar, but I think He talked about this the most.
and lead us not into to temptation, but deliver us from the evil one”. ...
The indication in the original rendering, or the non-English language, would be like this; " may we not be led into temptation by satan, but might we mind your Holy Spirit calling us to correction so that we can be carried through the situation." God does not lead to temptation.
ON TEMPTATION, THIS IS IMPORTANT.
God does not lure us to “do wrong”, but the adversary ( The Devil ), can contort reality to cause us to make the wrong choice in particular settings through demonic influence.
The best thing to do in the transition from temptation into sinning is to immediately stop before you go any further. The best help is to completely change the physical situation to refrain from indulging. This can be very difficult.
We can't blame it all on the devil and his demons! One place the dark adversaries have no access to is "in" our minds, as they are not able to read our thoughts. The demonic principalities can make suggestions when they see us in certain situations like; physical fatigue, stress, or anger. Many temptation sources come from our own compulsion stored in the mind from sinful moments from the past. We are responsible for stepping into the majority of the situations that lead to temptation and subsequent sin, in my opinion. I feel the majority of temptation and sin all happen in the mind, but are never manifested into reality. The adversary (satan and the deployed demons) set the rest of the potential temptation and sin up by influencing things to happen around the moment-to-moment life stuff as we interact in the public, etc.
The evil one and the demonic see your situation in certain, familiar situations where you've fallen previously, and they can suggest things to you to get you to compromise. How will you know if it is darkness talking to you? Easy, it will be suggestions contrary to the Word of God. The evil one knows you very well. When satan tests, it's because the Lord allowed it to happen. In effect, at that point, it ultimately becomes the Lord's test. The Lord will make good come out of whatever the result is. Sometimes sooner, sometimes later...at times way later !
We are in a fallen world, so naturally, in fact, normally, we seem to sometimes do the wrong thing in our normal human inclination by whatever weakness one is bent toward in committing error, it's different for everyone. Forgiveness is already there for the trusting believer, and the grace of God affords us the opportunity to confess. We are already naturally predisposed to do the wrong thing, and it's been a problem for us since the first creation of humanity.
Temptation in the Bible is translated from the original Greek word [ peirasmos ]. Peirasmos means to “test”. The devil will test us to try to; “get us to sin”. We're residing in an evil world. Ask God to lead you away from the natural inclination to sin by asking for deliverance from the temptations presented by the adversary as those moments arise.
Prayer goes a long way in seeing us through. Asking the Lord to remind us of His Word is the way to turn away from sin. It's asking the Lord to carry us through the evil test in order to refine us into better humans. It's requesting the Lord to be with you, close by, so that you can do the right thing and overcome the predisposition to sin.
We will fail, but not "as often", and not in as much as the extreme ways we've fallen before. When one is really trusting Christ, it eternally seals authentic, true belief, forever. Sin happens, but it's not the...same, as the true believer can no longer "live in the lifestyle of sin" any longer.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever and ever.
Self-explanatory. … You are declaring that God is the incalculable sum of everything. The Earth, space, time, and the universe....everything is the Lord's. Everything made has origin from God, and He gets the glory, FOREVER. Eternity is beyond the comprehension of what we know as time. It all belongs to God.
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