A Meditation on The Lord's Prayer
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When I pray 'OUR’, help me to ensure that my life and faith have room for others and their needs.
When I pray 'FATHER’, help me to demonstrate this relationship to God in my daily life.
When I pray 'IN HEAVEN’, help me to ensure that that my main interests are not in earthly things.
When I pray ‘HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME’, help me to strive, with God’s help, to be holy.
When I pray ‘YOUR KINGDOM COME’, help me to demonstrate the ways of God’s kingdom in my daily life.
When I pray ‘YOUR WILL BE DONE’, help me not to be self-willed or resentful of God’s claim on my time, my talents, my resources and myself.
When I pray ‘ON EARTH AS IN HEAVEN’, help me to be ready to give myself to God’s service, and the service of others, here and now.
When I pray 'GIVE US TODAY OUR DAILY BREAD', help me to be thankful for all that I have and to share my plenty freely with my neighbour.
When I pray 'FORGIVE US OUR SINS', help me to recognise the greatness of God’s love, and the grace that redeems me and sets me free.
When I pray 'AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO SIN AGAINST US', help me to forgive those who wrong me, and to harbour no grudges, so that I may fully experience forgiveness myself.
When I pray 'LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION', help me to recognise and avoid those situations where I am tempted to do wrong.
When I pray 'DELIVER US FROM EVIL', help me to take a stand against evil through my prayers, my words and my actions.
When I pray 'THE KINGDOM IS YOURS', help me to be willing to obey the King in all things.
When I pray 'THE POWER AND THE GLORY ARE YOURS', help me to understand that I cannot, therefore, seek power and glory for myself.
When I pray 'FOR EVER AND EVER', help me to see things in their eternal context, and not be anxious about each day’s affairs.
And when I pray ‘AMEN’, help me to recognize that I am saying before God and my neighbour, “Cost what it may, this is my prayer.”