The Lord’s Prayer & Stickman-Living

• September 23, 2011 09:26 am
• by: Pastor Sherrie Hittler

Have you considered how The Lord’s Prayer is an expression of “Stickman-Living”?
Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.

Let me explain. (adapted from The Jesus Creed) When we let the Lord’s Prayer fill us, transform us, guide us we learn:

1. To approach God as Abba Father. God is our loving, caring, eye-to-eye Father. He not only desires that we love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, He loves us even more completely and than that – even to the point of being our
Abba Father.
2. What God really wants. God desires to be honored and have His will become reality on earth. A piece of His will is that none should perish. We cannot intentionally reach out in personal & relational ways to those who don’t yet know Jesus in our own strength and conviction; we must be transformed by God’s presence with us.
3. To think of others. …to be aware of their needs, to pray for those needs. As God’s heart increasingly shapes our heart, we then reach out to help meet the needs of the lost and broken in tangible ways.

There it is: one hand firmly on God & His Word – loving Him. As this transforms us, we begin to desire what God desires. This transformation leads us to keep one hand firmly on a hurting world.

When’s the last time you prayed the Lord’s Prayer, in earnestness and humility, letting Him fill you, transform you and guide you?