directs all things for our good and his glory. This type of theology informs how we understand what we are doing when we come before his throne of grace with our requests and needs( Heb. 4:16).
Approaching the Lord’ s Prayer
The Lord’ s Prayer does not teach us the artifice or the mechanics of prayer. Instead, the Lord Jesus rearranges our theology and breaks open our faulty misconceptions about the character of God and our deepest needs in this world. He teaches us that prayer is not about impressing God; rather, it is about praising him by humbly coming before him to offer the kind of prayer that pleases him. himself to teach us to pray because, left to our own devices, we will pray wrongly. We need to approach the Lord’ s Prayer with the same request and attitude as Christ’ s disciples. We need to ask the Lord to teach us to pray. Of course, Jesus was ready to teach his disciples before they were ready to learn. He is ready to teach us too.
As Jesus’ disciples, we need to pray. We are created to be a praying people. But we desperately need instruction on how to pray. We need the Lord Jesus Christ
Dr. Albert Mohler
R. Albert Mohler Jr. has been called“ one of America’ s most influential evangelicals”( Economist) and the“ reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement”( Time. com). The president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he writes a popular blog and a regular commentary, available at AlbertMohler. com, and hosts two programs:“ The Briefing” and“ Thinking in Public.” He is the author of many books, including We Cannot Be Silent, and has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and on programs such as NBC’ s Today Show, ABC’ s Good Morning America, and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. He and his wife, Mary, in Louisville, Kentucky.
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