About Prayer in the Gospel of Luke
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Jesus said to them,
"When you pray, say:
‘Father,
May your name be kept holy.
May your kingdom come.
Give us each day our bread;
Forgive us our sins,
As we ourselves forgive
All who owe us;
And lead us not into temptation.’”
(Luke 11:2-4)
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3:21 Jesus is
baptized and removes himself from the crowd to pray
5:16 He withdraws
to the wilderness to pray
6:12 He ascends
the mountain to pray, and prays all night
6:28 He bids us
pray for our abusers
9:18 He prays alone
though in a crowd
9:28 He prays in
small groups
10:2 He
suggests we pray for the Father to send laborers
11:1 He prays in
a certain place, and others ask him how
18:1 He
suggests that prayer will keep one from losing heart
18:10 He suggests
we ask the Father for mercy in the matter of sin
19:46 He calls
the Father’s house a house of prayer
21:36 He suggests
we pray for strength to withstand the evil day (the future)
21:36 and that we
may stand up to the judgment of the Son of Man
22:32 He suggests
we pray for those lacking faith and strength
22:40 and that we
pray to avoid temptation and testing
22:41 He is kneeling
in prayer
22:46 He calls
for rising from sleep to pray
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Laid
on thine altar, O my Lord divine, accept this gift today, for Jesus’ sake.
I
have no jewels to adorn thy shrine, nor any world-famed sacrifice to make;
But
here I bring, within my trembling hand, this will of mine – a thing that
seemeth small;
And
thou alone, O Lord, canst understand how, when I yield this thee, I yield mine
all.
Hidden
therein thy searching gaze canst see struggles of passions, visions of delight,
All
that I have, or am, or fain would be – deep loves, fond hopes and longings
infinite.
It
hath been wet with tears, dimmed with sighs, clenched in my grasp till beauty
hath it none.
Now,
from thy footstool, where it vanquished lies, the prayer ascendeth – “May thy
will be done!”
Take
it, O Father, ere my courage fail; and merge it so in Thine own will that I
May
never have a wish to take it back; when heart and courage fail, to thee I’ll
fly.
So
change, so purify, so like thine own, make thou my will so graced by love
divine
I
may not know or feel it as mine own, but recognize my will as one with Thine.
--C.T. Russell
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An Ancient Prayer
Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have
mercy
A Better Prayer (and more rhythmic)
Yah-weh have
mer-cy, Yah-shua-have mer-cy