“Thank God,” wrote Helmut Thielicke, “that our prayer does not depend on our expressing the correct desires, that it does not depend on our making a correct ‘diagnosis’ of our needs and troubles and then presenting God with a properly phrased and clearly outlined prayer-proposition.”14 The Father knows our needs beyond the expressed needs. He knows our needs contrary to the expressed needs. The Father of Jesus, who by grace is our Father, knows we need bread, sustenance, forgiveness, reconciliation, guidance and protection. He knows we need to experience his name being hallowed, and his
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