According to Your Will
One day, Jesus was walking with His disciples and one of them turned to Him and asked, “How do we pray?” That seems like a really loaded question, but Jesus answered it in a quite simple and quite famous way in Matthew 6 and Luke 11. Many of us who have been around the church in any capacity have probably at least heard the term “Lord’s Prayer” if not heard, read, or recited the prayer itself. For those of us who don’t know it by heart, here it is: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” I was at youth group in middle school the first time I remember hearing a sermon about prayer. It was very interesting to me, because, while I’m sure I’d heard sermons on the topic before, this o...