Practical Meditations on the Lord's Prayer

Newman Hall, 1889
 

INTRODUCTION

1. Prayer Reasonable and Useful

2. Direct Benefits of Prayer, Objections to Prayer

3. Reflex Benefits

4. Christ's Authority for Prayer

5. Method of Prayer—

    Form or Freedom

    Brevity

6. Authorship

7. General Scope
 

THE INVOCATION

1. Divine Fatherhood—"Father"

2. Fatherhood by Creation

3. Fatherhood by Redemption

4. Blessings Involved in the Fatherhood

5. Universal Brotherhood—"Our"

6. Majesty of the Father—"In Heaven"

7. Practical Lessons
 

THE FIRST PETITION

1. The Place of this Petition

2. The Meaning

3. What is Involved

4. Reasons for the Petition
 

THE SECOND PETITION

1. The Kingdom Spiritual

2. Difference between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdoms of the World

3. The Coming of the Kingdom

4. The Millennial Reign

5. Prayer for the Kingdom
 

THE THIRD PETITION

1. The Will of God

2. God's Preceptive Will

3. Why should God's Will be Done?

4. Angelic Nature

5. Angelic Obedience

6. Passive Obedience

7. Illustrations

8. Example of Christ
 

THE FOURTH PETITION

1. Meaning and Reasonableness

2. The Giver—"Our Father"

3. The Gift—"Daily Bread"

4. Community of the Gift—"Us"

5. Conditions of the Gift—"Our,"

    Honesty

    Industry

6. Period of the Gift—"This Day"

    Covetousness

7. Prayer for the Gift
 

THE FIFTH PETITION

1. Sin as a Debt to God

2. The Debts of God's Pardoned Children

3. Our Father's Forgiveness

4. Prayer for Pardon

5. Forgiveness of One Another

    Human Forgiveness

    A Condition of Divine
 

THE SIXTH PETITION

Connection with Prayer for Pardon

1. Meaning of Temptation

2. Meaning of the Prayer

3. Consolation for the Tempted

4. Practical Lessons

    No to go into Temptation

    Resist in the Way Appointed

    Turn Hindrances into Helps

    Not Bring Others into Temptation

    Compassion towards the Fallen
 

THE SEVENTH PETITION

1. The Evil One

    Personality of the Devil

    Agency of the Devil

    Resistance to the Devil

2. The Evil Resulting from Sin

3. The Evil in Ourselves
 

THE DOXOLOGY

1. A Confession of Faith

    The Kingdom

    The Power

    The Glory

2. An Argument in Prayer

3. An Ascription of Praise

4. Forever

5. Amen

6. Period of the Gift




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