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What I Learned From The Lord's Prayer

You may have read or heard or said in prayer these passage from Matthew 6 “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." If you were to ask me, I have done all. I've read, heard and said The Lord's Prayer or some would title it, The Disciple's Prayer. Being so familiar with this I thought I've already absorbed what Jesus wants me to learn about praying. On this day, my birthday, I realized how I need to be reminded again and again of this guide in prayer on how I should come to my Father in heaven-- it's teaching me to focus less of myself and center on the will of God and His glory. Jesus, before telling how we should pray, rebuked those who prayed in hypocrisy and in senseless way by repetitively babbling words. This words o...