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22 Cards in this Set
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What is the Introduction to the Lord's Prayer?
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Our Father in heaven.
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What does The Introduction to the Lord's Prayer mean?
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In this introduction, God invites us to believe that God is our real Father and we are God's real children, so that we will pray with trust and complete confidence, in the same way beloved children approach their beloved Father with their requests.
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What is the First Petition to the Lord's Prayer?
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Hallowed be your name.
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What does the First Petition to the Lord's Prayer mean?
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Of course, God's name is holy in and of itself, but by this request, we pray that God will make it holy among us, too.
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How is God's name kept holy?
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When God's Word is taught clearly and purely, and when we live holy lives as God's children based upon it. Help us, Heavenly Father, to do this! But anyone who teaches and lives by something other than God's Word defiles God's name among us. Protect us from this, Heavenly Father!
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What is the Second Petition to the Lord's Prayer?
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Your Kingdom come
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What does the Second Petition to the Lord's Prayer mean?
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Truly God's Kingdom comes by itself, without our prayer. But we pray in this request that it come to us as well.
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How does God's kingdom come?
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When the Heavenly Father gives us the Holy Spirit, so that we believe God's holy Word by God's grace and live godly lives here in this age and there in eternal life.
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What is the Third Petition to the Lord's Prayer?
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Your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
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What does the Third Petition to the Lord's Prayer mean?
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Truly, God's good and gracious will is accomplished without our prayer. But we pray in this request that is be accomplished among us as well.
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How is God’s will done?
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When God destroys and interferes with every evil will and all evil advice, which will not allow God's Kingdom to come, such as the Devil's will, the world's will and will of our bodily desires. It also happens when God strengthens us by faith and by the Word and keeps living by them faithfully until the end of our lives. This is God's will, good and full of grace.
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What is the Fourth Petition of the Lord's Prayer?
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Give us today our daily bread.
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What does this mean?
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Truly, God gives daily bread to sinners, even without our prayer. But we pray in this request that God will help us realize this and receive our daily bread with thanksgiving.
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What is meant by daily bread?
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Everything that nourishes our body and meets its needs, such as: Food, drink, clothing, shoes, house, yard, fields, cattle, money, possessions, a devout spouse, devout children, devout employees, devout and faithful rulers, good government, good weather, peace, health, discipline, honor, good friends, faithful neighbors, and other things like these.
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What is the Fifth Petition of the Lord's Prayer?
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Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us.
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What does the Fifth Petition mean?
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We pray in this request that our Heavenly Father will neither pay attention to our sins nor refuse requests such as these because of our sins and because we are neither worthy nor deserve the things for which we pray. Yet God wants to give them all to us by God's grace, because many times each day we sin and truly deserve only punishment. Because God does this, we will, of course, want to forgive from our hearts and willingly do good to those who sin against us.
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What is the Sixth Petition of the Lord's Prayer?
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Lead us not into temptation
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What does the Sixth Petition of the Lord's Prayer mean?
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God tempts no one, of course, but we pray in this request that God will protect us and save us, so that the Devil, the world and our bodily desires will neither deceive us nor seduce us into heresy, despair or other serious shame or vice, and so that we will win and be victorious in the end, even if they attack us.
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What is the Seventh Petition of the Lord's Prayer?
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But deliver us from evil. |
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What does the Seventh Petition of the Lord's Prayer mean?
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We pray in this request, as a summary, that our Father in Heaven will save us from every kind of evil that threatens body, soul, property and honor. We pray that when at last our final hour has come, God will grant us a blessed death, and, in God's grace, bring us to God's self from this valley of tears.
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What is the Conclusion of the Lord's Prayer?
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For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours. Now and for ever. Amen.
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What does "Amen" mean?
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Amen means, "yes, it shall be so." We say
Amen because we know that such petitions are no bother. In fact, they’re pleasing to our heavenly Father. For God has commanded us to pray and say the Lord’s Prayer in this very way. So have no fear, God will hear, and what God’s promised will surely come upon us. |
