Lord, Teach Us To Pray

The manner of our prayers:

1. Our relation to God the Father by electing, adopting love, by the work of Christ our redeemer, and by the Spirit in our birth and the gift of faith.

2. Our Father in heaven, our home, our family; the heavens do rule. Psalm 115:3.

3. The glory of God first, holy in His person, will, word, work, salvation, His sons and daughters, the church.

4. Thy kingdom come. Save your people, elect, adopted, though sinners in themselves, redeemed and reconciled by Christ. Call them irresistibly to life and faith in Christ. Build your church. Subdue your enemies.

5. Thy will be done. Since God is holy, and only He is good, above all things, we want His will to be done. If God does His will, we will be saved, we will be brought, as sons, to glory according to His eternal will, Heb. 2:10. Thy will, not my will. Thy will in all the earth. Glorify your name. Do your will. Do what you have said, 2 Sam. 7:25; Ezek. 36:37; John 15:7.

6. On earth as it is in heaven. Rom. 4:17 -- God's will is done in heaven as soon as God wills it. His word is everlasting. He calls things that are not, as though they were. Believers desire God's will to be done on earth as it is already done in heaven.

7. Give us this day, our daily bread. Psalm 145:16 -- all wait upon God the Father to give them what they must have to live. We depend on God for the most basic things in this life. How much more in our spiritual life. We ask for bread to fulfill our work to the glory of God (1 Peter 4:11). We ask for faith that we might take of the Bread of Life, the Lord Jesus Christ.

8. Sin is against God. It is a debt. Only Christ's blood remits, pays, our sin debt.