The Lord’s Prayer — A Pattern of How to Pray
How should you pray?
In a recent blog post, I took a deep dive into the Lord’s Prayer and dissected each verse of Matthew 6:9–13. But we can mine even more gold from this short, simple prayer that Jesus Christ considered the model way to talk to the Father. This blog post will examine the first five words and two commas. I jest about the commas.
Here’s the entire prayer as a reminder.
The Lord’s Prayer
9 “In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
13 And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
(Matthew 6:9–13, NKJV)
Matthew 6:9a: In this manner
“In this manner” comes from the Greek word “οὕτω,” which means “in this way” or “so (in like…
