OUR FATHER

It is the idea of God Himself to picture himself as a Father. This may be because all of us have a earthly father and can understand the implications of this relationship.
I believe that therefore Jesus started the prayer HE is teaching us with "Our Father"
It is also very significant that it starts with the word "OUR'. And the idea of "our" is also repeated throughout the rest of the prayer. There it is mentioning "us
instead of "me'. This in order to let us realize that we all, as believers are included as children of our Father. God is not only my God but "Ours'
Sometimes I seem to be inclined to personolize God for myself, but the Holy Spirit always corrects me. I believe it is good to think of yourself as a child of God. However, we must realize that we are one of many others.
The prayer continues to indicate who and where our Father is. 'Who art in Heaven" and then it expresses our desire that His name will be Hallowed. This means that we want that His name is always honored and glorified.
Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. We are in a way saying that we know that His Kingdom and His wiil is not yet realized here on earth. But that we want it to come. as it is promised during the 1000 year reign of our Lord Jesus. Now His will is done abolutely by His Angels in Heaven, since he has trown Lucifer and His rebelious Angels out.
"Give us this day our daily bread". This is the only simple request for our physical needs. Quite different from so many of our human prayers which are filled with
"Lord give me,give me, give me! This day and daily shows that it is needed to pray every day for this. One day at the time.The Next sentance continues with the word "and". It showes me also that here our daily bread is connected to our forgiveness. "and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors". This is such an important issue that In Mathew 6:14 and 15, on the end of the prayer, Jesus emphasizes this again. The quality of the forgiving we do is also in focus ,because sometimes we think that we forgave but it is not completely done in our Spirit.
"And lead us not into temptation". This seems to be in contradiction with James 1:13. There God stated that He tempts no one ! However, from other scriptures
[1 Cor.10:9/14]we know that temptation come either from our own lusts or from the Evil One. God does test us sometimes and the Bible uses the word tempt in place of test. I believe that this request of "lead us not into temptation" could be rephrased by saying" Lord do not allow the evil one to lead us into sin"Ti idea is inforced by the follwing,'but deliver us from evil."Some translation say "from the evil one"
" For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever " Here we are expressing our desire and admittance that those 3 things are God's possesions and rights. they are mentiones in others parts of God's Word. Rev. 4 says Glory ,Honor and Power. AMEN!
iT IS VERY MUCH NEEDED THAT WE PRAY THIS PRAYER EVERY DAY! ANS ALSO USE IT AS A PATTERN FOR OUR OTHER PRAYERS.
Johannes G Weiss