The Lords Prayer Revisited

We all grew up hearing the Lord's prayer or being told to recite the Lord's prayer but with no real concept of what we were saying. With all the repatition, it lost all the meaning that it should have to us. We realized this, so we have decided to revisit the Lord's prayer and what it means for our house.

Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.

In our house we recognize the awesome nature of God and we will praise and worship him regularly. His name is hallowed, holy, and should be treated as such. We are reverent of him and we show him our reverence and love through worship and praise.

Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.

The reason we are forming the house at all is to attempt to do God's will on earth. We want to be a reflection of God's kindgom. His kingdom is coming, and until this happens we will do our best to live in preparation for this. In everything we do, we want to do God's will not our will. We want to ensure this is our mentality behind our actions.

Give us this day our daily bread.

We recognize the reality of God's provision for us. We trust that he will provide our 'daily bread', whatever that may be. This also represents simplicity for our house. We need to be content with the things we need (our daily bread) and not the things we want. (a gourmet meal)

And forgive us our trespasses,

We want to be reconciled with God. We ask him to forgive us and we need to learn to accept his forgiveness.

As we forgive those who trespass against us.

We need to forgive one another because it is inevitable that there will be disagreements and misunderstandings. We should forgive in order to stop feeling negatively towards the person who trespassed against us. Holding a grudge eats away at you and we want to be able to learn how to forgive even without apologies.

And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.

We pray that God helps us to resist tempting situations and protect us from evil. We will avoid putting ourselves in circumstances we know to be tempting. We also know that Satan will try and stop what we're doing. We are earnestly trying to live for God and we need to be aware and prepared for the reality of evil coming against us.

[For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever.]
Amen.