Christ knew what he was doing when he gave his disciples what we have come to call “The Lord’s Prayer.” It is beautiful to the ear. Rhythmic to the tongue. Simple to remember and loaded with power. In this episode, Joe Leman highlights this beauty and power and helps us see the hope of human transformation that is instore for any who would take up the prayer and pray it.
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Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen. Welcome everyone to Breaking Bread, the podcast brought to you by Apostolic Christian Counseling and Family Services. Excellent as always, to have you along. I’ve got Joe Leman with me here. I just have more to talk about Joe with the Lord’s Prayer.
Well, it’s a subject that I love, so I’m on board. I knew that. So, for those of you who listened, we had a podcast out in December during Advent, and there I asked you to serve up the Lord’s Prayer to us and we really focused in on thy Kingdom come, thy will be done. Right. We just got started. And so, here’s what I want you to do, and we know the Lord’s Prayer, but I want you to recite it, putting you on the spot here. Okay? Recite the Lord’s Prayer for us. You talked about six big buckets last time that the Lord Prayer has, maybe you can accent those. Sure. And then I’ve got some specific places I want to go to this time because there’s so much here and you know that better than I do.
Remind us of what the Lord’s Prayer says. Okay. Yeah. So, we’re approaching this as a poem. A beautiful poem meant to be prayed but also meant to be a template for prayer. So, the poem has three buckets, as you said. We’ll start. It’s going to address our Father which art in heaven, or to look at as our father. The next is hallowed be your Name, turning our eyes to the greatest good. That is God thy kingdom come. This idea that God is working in our time and in our universe to great ends and a submission to his will as better than our own. His intentions for good, better than our own, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
