PRAISE : Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name
PRAYER : Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.
PENITENCE : Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
This new book by Neil Jefferyes seeks to encourage people to develop this simple pattern or PRAISE, PRAYER AND PENITENCE in their own prayer. There are short chapters exploring each of these themes and showing how they link together and why they are in this order.
The remainder of the book offers material for a ‘starter collection’ of hymns, songs, prayers and passages from scripture grouped around these themes. The idea is not to create a prayer book, or to suggest that private prayer should be a very structured formal affair, but rather to provide encouragement and inspiration to help us to deepen and develop our experience of prayer.
“The Everyday Use of the Lord’s Prayer”
By Neil Jefferyes
A Pattern as well as a Prayer
By Neil Jefferyes
A Pattern as well as a Prayer
On one of the occasions when Jesus introduced the Lord’s Prayer he said ‘This then is how you should pray,’ or ‘pray then like this,’ (Matthew 6:9) suggesting not so much a prayer to use, as a pattern to follow. He seems to be saying, ‘here is an outline and these are a list of topics. Follow this pattern, using your own words.’ So what is the pattern? Well the 10 or so phrases fall into just three vital aspects of prayer.