THE LORD'S PRAYER

Good Morning!!! THE LORD'S PRAYER Around the Year with Emmet Fox January 31 The Lord's Prayer is the most important of all the Christian documents. Everyone who is seeking to follow along the Way that Jesus led, should pray the Lord's Prayer intelligently every day. The Great Prayer is a compact formula for the development of the soul. It is designated with the utmost care for that specific purpose; so that those who use it regularly, with understanding, will experience a real change of the soul. It is the change of the soul that matters. The mere acquisition of knowledge received intellectually makes no change in the soul. The first thing that we notice is that the prayer naturally falls into seven clauses. This is the characteristic of the Oriental tradition. Seven symbolizes individual completeness, the perfection of the individual soul, just as the number twelve in the same convention stands for corporate completeness. The seven clauses are put together in perfect order and sequence, and they contain everything that is necessary for the nourishment of the soul. The more one analyzes the Lord's Prayer, the more wonderful its construction is seen to be. “After this manner therefore pray ye...” Matthew 6:9