I read the Lord's prayer in the Old Testament a long time ago, but I was using a new living bible. However, now I read the New King James version and it's harder to find. Okay thanks alot. But I think it's in Dueteronomy.
2007-03-23 09:36:14 · 13 answers · asked by super saiyan 3 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Luke 11.
+ "Teach us how to pray," the disciples said to Jesus. (Luke 11, 1) He answered by teaching them the prayer we call the Our Father or The Lord's Prayer.
The Lord's Prayer is a basic Christian prayer. As a model of prayer, every Christian learns it by heart. It appears everywhere in the church's life: in its liturgy and sacraments, in public and private prayer. It is a prayer Christians treasure.
Though we memorize it as a set formula, the Lord's Prayer shouldn't be repeated mechanically or without thought. Its purpose is to awaken and stimulate our faith. Through this prayer Jesus invites us to approach God as Father. Indeed, the Lord's Prayer has been called a summary of the gospel.
+ Our Father, who art in heaven,
+ hallowed be thy name.
When Moses approached God on Mount Sinai, he heard a voice saying, "Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." An infinite chasm separates us from the transcendent God.
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus invites us to draw near to God who is beyond human understanding, who dwells in mystery, who is all holy. We can call God "our Father".
Calling God "Father" does not mean that God is masculine. God is beyond the categories of gender, of masculine or feminine. None of our descriptions of God is adequate. God, who is "in heaven", whose name is holy, cannot be fully known by us.
By calling God "Father" we are more rightly describing ourselves and our relationship with God. Jesus teaches that we have a filial relationship with God; God sees us as if we were a daughter or a son. And we, on our part, can approach God in the familiar confident way a child approaches a loving parent. What is more, we approach God through God's only Son, Jesus Christ, who unites us to himself.
+ Thy Kingdom come,
+ thy will be done,
+ on earth as it is in heaven.
God's kingdom. Jesus often said that God's power would appear and renew all creation. God like a mighty king would rule over the earth according to a plan that unfolds from the beginning of the world. God's kingdom would be marked by peace and justice. Good would be rewarded and evil punished. The kingdom, according to Jesus, is not far off, but already present in our midst, though not yet revealed.
In the Lord's Prayer we pray that God's kingdom come, that God's will, which is for our good, be done on earth as it is in heaven.
+ Give us this day our daily bread.
We are God's children. What can be more childlike than this petition in which we pray for our daily bread, a word that describes all those physical, human and spiritual gifts we need to live. With the confidence of children we say: "Give us this day what we need."
+ Forgive us our trespasses,
+ as we forgive those who trespass against us.
This petition of the Lord's Prayer is a demanding one. Not only do we ask God's forgiveness for our daily offenses, but we link God's forgiveness of us with our forgiveness of others. Forgiving others is not always easy to do. We need God's help to do it. But it must be done or we ourselves cannot receive God's mercy.
+ And lead us not into temptation,
+ but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Life is not easy. It is a daily battle. Trials like sickness and failure can crush our spirits. False values and easy promises can entice us and even destroy our souls. And so we ask God to keep us from failing when we are tested, to help us to know the right thing to do, to deliver us from the evil awaits us in life.
The Lord's Prayer sums up the teaching of Jesus. It is also a prayer that offers the grace of Jesus: his reverence for God, his childlike confidence in his Father, and his power to go bravely through life no matter what comes. When we pray his prayer, his spirit becomes our own.
+ With love in Christ.
2007-03-25 18:32:41 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's in the New Testament
Mat 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4
2007-03-23 09:40:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's in the New Testament: Matthew 6:9-13 or Luke 11:2-4
2007-03-23 09:39:10 · answer #3 · answered by angel_light 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I thought the Old Testament dealt with the time before Christ. If that's the case, then the Lord's Prayer, (as delivered by Jesus), cannot be found in the Old Testament no matter how hard you look...
2007-03-23 09:41:47 · answer #4 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus prayed found in the Old Testament? None. Not a single verse. Only the Old Testament Prophesy of Jesus is found.
2007-03-26 13:44:00 · answer #5 · answered by House Speaker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are getting the Lord's prayer (when the diciples asked Jesus how to pray) and the 23 Psalm confused. Both are a little bit similar, poetic, and well known.
Dueteronomy by the way is a couple of going away speaches that Moses gave to the Isreal before he died. You are really far off base.
2007-03-23 09:41:53 · answer #6 · answered by RedE1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is in the New Testament, Jesus is in the New Testament. The Old Testament only tells of his coming so it wouldn't contain anything Jesus said or did.
2007-03-23 09:42:13 · answer #7 · answered by Angelz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Old Testament has been fulfilled. The Word of God has replaced scripture. The Lord's Prayer is Word of God, is comes directly from God to LORD God, through the Holy Ghost. It does not come to us through the Holy Ghost to a man (prophets). Therefore, it can not be found in the Old Testament. The Word of God can be found in the Old Testament 6 times, only.
Understand why Jesus refers to his new name as the Word of God and God as Our Father, Who art in heaven.
2007-03-23 09:46:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is not in the old testament, he is in the new.Try Matthew 6:9.
2007-03-23 09:40:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is not in the Old Testament.
2007-03-23 09:43:44 · answer #10 · answered by Ambrielle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is also a prayer that was supposed to be an example on how to pray. It was not supposed to be used and repeated exactly as Jesus prayed it.
One thing to notice is that the one line, "Thy Kingdom come" was praying for the Kingdom to come and we all know that Jesus established his Kingdom, also known as the church, upon his death, so the Kingdom is already here. So each time that exact prayer is recited, you are praying for something to come that is already here.
Your prayers should be from the heart and not something that you have memorized.
2007-03-23 09:45:23 · answer #11 · answered by TG 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋