The Lord’s Prayer is the most important of all the Christian documents. Everyone who is seeking to follow along the Way that Jesus led, should pray the Lord’s Prayer intelligently every day.
The Great Prayer is a compact formula for the development of the soul. It is designed with the utmost care for that specific purpose, so that those who use it regularly, with understanding, will experience a real change of soul. It is the change of soul that matters. The mere acquisition of knowledge received intellectually makes no change in the soul.
The first thing that we notice is that the prayer naturally falls into seven clauses. This is very characteristic of the Oriental tradition. Seven symbolizes individual completeness, the perfection of the individual soul, just as the number twelve in the same convention stands for corporate completeness. The seven clauses are put together in perfect order and sequence, and they contain everything that is necessary for the nourishment of the soul. The more one analyzes the Lord’s Prayer, the more wonderful its construction is seen to be.
After this manner therefore pray ye. (Matthew 6:9).
This series will be among the most important we address in the garden. Suffice it to say that Jesus Christ himself gives the instructions, ‘Nuff said for today.
In obedience,
Z gardener
Your blog content is always thought-provoking, challenging. So, I really look forward to this series on the Lord’s Prayer. May God speak to your heart more prolifically on this topic than ever before. May you have the words to draw in your readers like bees drawn to pollen.
Jeanie,
Your uplifting responses are always a blessing to this humble pilgrim. It is my prayer that those who happen upon the garden will be as blessd by their visist as this writer has been by your kind words. Blessings.
Z