Ten Reasons to Study the Lord’s Prayer

1. To experience what it means to have God as your Father.
2. To find out which part of the Lord’s Prayer may speak directly of the Lord’s Supper.
3. To learn about salvation by grace in the Lord’s Prayer.
4. To learn how to pray the Lord’s Prayer for others.
5. Because meditation on the Lord’s Prayer can be the basis for all other prayers.
6. Because “in the Lord’s Prayer there is comprehended in seven successive articles, or petitions, every need which never ceases to relate to us, and each so great that it ought to constrain us to keep praying it all our lives.” (Martin Luther, 1528 A+D)
7. And “there is absolutely nothing passed over that is not comprehended in the Lord’s Prayer, as in a compendium of heavenly doctrine.” (St. Cyprian, 252 A+D)
8. Moreover, “since Christ says, ‘whatsoever we shall ask of the Father in His name, He will give us,’ how much more effectually do we obtain what we ask in Christ’s name, if we ask for it in His own prayer!” (St. Cyprian, 252 A+D)
9. And “whenever a pious Christian prays: Dear Father, let Thy will be done, God speaks from on high and says: Yes, dear child, it shall be so, in spite of the devil and all the world.” (Martin Luther, 1528 A+D)
10. Finally, because most of us struggle to pay attention when we pray it!