SPECIAL CHARACTER
The Lord’s Prayer is the prayer
Jesus gave to His disciples when they asked him to teach them how to pray. It appears in Matthew’s Gospel and in Luke’s
Gospel in slightly different forms. It
also resembles a traditional Jewish family prayer and has references to
passages from the Old Testament.
The Lord’s Prayer is a prayer of
PETITION – of asking. The first three
petitions are about God and the second four are about people.
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PETITIONS
ABOUT GOD
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Meaning
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Our Father in heaven,
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Introduction: A way of
addressing God
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Hallowed be your name
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1st Petition:
May God’s name be recognised as holy.
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Your kingdom come,
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May God’s kingdom be
present on earth.
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Your will be done on
earth as it is in heaven.
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May (we help) God’s will
be done on earth.
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PETITIONS ABOUT PEOPLE
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Give us this day our
daily bread,
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Please give us our basic
survival needs.
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And forgive us our sins,
As we forgive those who sin against us,
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The way we forgive
others will be how we can expect God to forgive our sins.
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Save us from the time of
trial
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In the alternative
version of the Our Father this is, “delivery us from evil,” – it means save
us from the test of temptation, may we make the right choices when tempted.
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And deliver us from evil
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Save us from evil – all
the bad things that could befall us both material and spiritual.
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This prayer pretty much has
everything covered!
Lorraine Frances-Rees, Co-DRS
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