The Benefits of Reciting The Lord’s Prayer

Everyone knows the Lord’s Prayer. But what is it, and what are the benefits of reciting it? In these days of ‘manifesting everything you want’, it’s a simple prayer that basically acknowledges a love for God, asks for forgiveness, then forgives others, and leaves everything to God’s Will. It’s a lot simpler than writing hundreds of affirmations!

Our Father who art in heaven,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever.
Amen

The Prayer of Unwanting is about saying the Lord’s Prayer to get over ourselves, rather than a magical way to ask for stuff. The purpose of prayer is simply to change the heart of our wanting. In this book, a pastor leads us into a prayer that Jesus taught us to pray, and how.

I’m not particularly great praying. Pastors are supposed to be amazing at praying, so pray-ey  that we’ll pray at the drop of a hat. Not me. Thinking and writing and preaching and discussing? Sure. Stillness and walking meditations? Those I can do.