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while the devil is in the details, so, too, are the angels.
It is by remembering that we start to see how present God is in our lives—at work in all things, all people, all places, and at all times.
I find it more useful, therefore, to pray Where? rather than Why? prayers. Where were you, Lord, in our medical appointment today? Where are you now in our weariness and disappointment? David G. Benner puts it like this: “Unwelcome circumstances . . . are not gifts. But they may contain a gift.”[11]
this line about forgiving those who sin against us can be applied to every other line of the prayer. Our Father’s name is hallowed as we forgive. His Kingdom comes as we forgive. We are forgiven as we forgive.
When Jesus cried out from the cross, “It is finished,”[26] he was declaring the death of death, the cure for suffering, the remission of sin. In that single moment, we were found.
The theologian N. T. Wright says that “to pray ‘deliver us from evil’ . . . is to inhale the victory of the cross,
We defy the enemy best by wielding the Word of God humbly,
The word Christian only appears three times in the biblical text—as a nickname in Acts 11:26, Acts 26:28, and 1 Peter 4:16—and is never used by Paul.
“Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom.”[1]
these closing lines of the Lord’s Prayer is to give “the kingdom, the power, and the glory” back to God. It’s to give him our little empires (family, ministry, career) and say, “Yours, Lord, is the Kingdom.”
It’s to give him the power bases we’ve built and say, “Yours, Lord, is the power.” It’s to give him our credibility, our trophies of success, and say, “Yours, Lord, is the glory forever and right now.”
Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.”[4]
how to pray was to keep it simple, keep it real, and keep it up.
Ultimately, we learn to pray by praying—by
