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 do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one. This morning I'd like us to spend a little bit of time talking together about prayer.
Prayer often seems like a difficult and mysterious business to many people.
Jesus said that we could pray for anything, in his name, and that our prayers would be answered. Sometimes that seems to be true, but sometimes it doesn't seem to work out that way. A lot of the time, we don't know what to pray for . When people are really sick, we don't always know whether to pray for their recovery, or whether to pray that God will release them from their suffering. We know that we want to pray for peace, but it isn't always clear to us how peace will come about.