This year’s theme for Smitten with Goodness is prayer. In the previous post, Prayer is Allowing God to Love You, there are many ways we can connect with God. Sometimes we need to slow down and go back to the basics. This helps us to open our minds and hearts to God.
In Matthew 6:9-15, Jesus teaches us how to pray. Focusing on the Our Father, presents us with a great opportunity to go back to the basics of prayer. Meditating on this prayer allows us to open our minds and hearts and be in communion with God.
Our Father,
Who art in Heaven,
hallowed be Thy name;
Thy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done
on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.
If the Gospel is a message of Joy, then it is one we should be eager to pursue. We can do this by diving into a deeper, prayerful encounter with Jesus Christ this year. He will teach us to pray.
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