The Lord's Prayer

Prayer is a mystery.
We don't know how it works, but we know that it does. Conversation with our fellow human beings is one of the most precious endowments we possess. Would God leave us without the privilege of communication with Himself? A thousand times No!

The Lord Jesus gave us a model prayer which has been repeated through the centuries of Church history, and its purpose was to teach us that the primary effectiveness of prayer is in the realm of the Spirit, rather than the realm of matter.

As has been pointed out:

You cannot pray the Lord's Prayer and even once say "I".
You cannot say the Lord's Prayer and even once say "My".
Nor can you pray the Lord's Prayer and not pray for another,
For when you ask for daily bread you must include your brother.
For others are included in each and every plea -
From the beginning to the end of it, It never once says "Me!"

With over 400 pages, this book is an indepth Biblical study about prayer...

SECTION I - Why, Where and How Should We Pray?
    1 - Why Do I Pray?
    2 - Prayer Can Kill or Cure
    3 - Prayer Begins with a Sense of Need
    4 - God Meets Our Needs through Prayer
    5 - Must I Go to Church to Pray?
    6 - What Posture in Prayer?
    7 - The Model Prayer and WHy It Was Given
    8 - In What Sense is this "The Lord's Prayer"?
    9 - Theocentric Prayer
   10 - Prayer Is an Expression of Relationships
   11 - How You Ask Makes a Difference

SECTION II - Our Father, Who Art in Heaven
   12 - The Brotherhood of Prayer
   13 - God Is Not the Exclusive Father of Anybody
   14 - Jesus Christ Introduces God to Man as Father
   15 - God Was Not a Father to Jesus in the Same Way He Is to Us
   16 - Is the Son of God Himself God?
   17 - God Never Relinquishes His Claim of Fatherhood
   18 - It Is We Who Change toward God, Not He toward Us
   19 - Is Jesus the Savior of All Men?
   20 - Adoption and Predestination
   21 - The Advantages of Having God as Father
   22 - The Name "Father" Implies Relationship and Trust
   23 - Does a Child of God Have Legitimate Right to All That is God's Simply Because It is Available?
   24 - Don't Ask God to Give You What You Think You Deserve
   25 - Praying to God Who is Spirit?
   26 - The Invisibility of God
   27 - God Is a Person
   28 - What Is Heaven?
   29 - Why We Have no More Details About Heaven
   30 - As a Heavenly Father He Knows All, So Why Pretend?
   31 - Hallowed Be Thy Name
   32 - Prayer - Worship or Beggary?

SECTION III - Hallowed Be Thy Name
   33 - What's in a Name?
   34 - Who Can Hallow God's Name?
   35 - As God's Children We Bear His Name
   36 - Reverence Is Not Outward Solemnity and Formality, but Inward Respect
   37 - God's Holiness and Our Divergent Wills

SECTION IV - Thy Kingdom Come
   38 - Thy Kingdom Come
   39 - Where is God's Kingdom to be Established?

SECTION V - Thy Will Be Done
   40 - Praying for God's Will to be Done
   41 - Observe God's Operations in Nature as You Pray
   42 - Can We Speak to God Without First Hearing Him?
   43 - Feel Free to Express Your Desires, but Allow God to Determine What Is Good for You
   44 - Why Pray for Guidance When My Concience Can Guide Me?
   45 - God's Will May Involve Prosperity or Suffering
   46 - God Chooses the Means By Which to Accomplish His Purpose in Our Lives
   47 - Doing God's Will Is More Than Passive Submission

SECTION VI - Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
   48 - Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
   49 - The Sanctity of the Body
   50 - You Are Not Self-Sufficient in Meeting the Needs of Your Body
   51 - Now Does God Provide Our Daily Bread?
   52 - Will Prayer Make You Healthy and Wealthy?

SECTION VII - Forgive Us Our Sins as We Forgive Them That Sin Against Us
   53 - Forgiveness of Sins - A Necessity for Peace of Soul
   54 - How Is Forgiveness of Sins Possible?
   55 - Why Are We Sinners?
   56 - What Is Sin?
   57 - Lawlessness is Sin
   58 - Sin as Godlessness, Disobedience, and Error
   59 - What Are Trespasses?
   60 - How Does a Trespass Differ from a Transgression?
   61 - What Does "Forgive" Mean?
   62 - What Is Not Meant by "Forgive Us Our Sins"
   63 - Can A Christian Sin?
   64 - What Does It Mean to Walk in the Light?
   65 - Salvation Effects a Fundamental Change of Nature
   66 - Characteristics of a Born Again Christian
   67 - Prayer Is Asking with a Personal Pledge
   68 - Aren't Christians Supposed to Pay Their Debts?
   69 - Does Forgiveness Preclude Punishment?
   70 - Forgiveness Seeks the Redemption of Others
   71 - Ask God for Forgiveness of Your Explicit Sins
   72 - Does God's Forgiveness Depend upon Our Forgiveness?
   73 - Personal Sin Affects Others

SECTION VIII - Lead Us Not Into Temptation
   74 - Lead Us Not into Temptation
   75 - No One Is Exempt from Temptation
   76 - Watch Your Achilles' Heel!
   77 - The Folly of Over-Confidence When Facing Temptation

SECTION IX - Deliver Us From Evil
   78 - Recognizing the Presence of Evil and the Need for Deliverance
   79 - The Devil Tries to Get Between You and God
   80 - The Only Real Harm the Evil One Can Cause Us Is to Make Us Sin
   81 - The Evil One Cannot Touch Us without God's Permission
   82 - Is A Christian Exempt from the Consequences of Evil?
   83 - The Epicurean, Stoic, and Christian Views of Evil
   84 - Your Attitude towards Evil and Its Consequences Spells Victory or Defeat
   85 - Deliverance from the COrruption of Our Own Hearts
   86 - Deliverance from the Evil of the Darkening of Our Conscience
   87 - Guard Against the Lowering of Your Upward Look
   88 - Deliverance from Degrading of Our Ideals, Deviation from Rectitude, and Defiling of Our Purity
   89 - Deliverance from teh Loss of Faith and the Vulgarization of Our Sentiments
   90 - Deliverance from the Chilling of SPiritual Fervor
   91 - The Moral Fall, a Sin Against God and man
   92 - Deliverance from the Chilling of Spiritual Fervor
   93 - Removal of Evil, or Comfort in the Presence of Evil
   94 - God Effects Deliverance through Giving Us Patience to Bear Our Trials
   95 - If It Were Not for Suffering, Would We Ever Think of Heaven?
   96 - Two Conditions for Deliverance
   97 - Put on the New Man
   98 - God Provides Deliverance, but We Must Accept It
   99 - Deliverance through the Word, Prayer, and a Vision of What Lies Ahead
  100 - Past Deliverances and Future Expectations

SECTION X - The Doxology
  101 - God Is Now Reigning
  102 - Why Do We Pray?
  103 - Why Is the Doxology Ommited by Some?
  104 - What Is the Purpose of Prayer?
  105 - The Danger of Answered Prayers: Can We Command God's Power?
  106 - Recognizing Evil and God's Ability to Deliver Us
  107 - Why in This Order: Kingdom, Power, Glory?
  108 - Why do We Close Our Prayers with the Word "Amen"?
  109 - How Much Can My Prayer Influence God in Changing His Mind?

Spiros Zodhiates was born to Greek parents on the island of Cyprus.After completing his Greek education, he attended the American University in Cairo, Egypt, The National Bible Institute (now Shelton College), and New York University. He earned his Doctor of Theology degree from Luther Rice Seminary. In addition, Dr. Zodhiates has been the recipient of several honorary doctrorates.

In 1946, he came to the United States at the invitation of the American Mission to the Greeks, Inc. Dr. Zodhiates became president of this organization in 1966. At that time, there were two part-time employees who met in a small, one-room office. Now known as AMG International ("Advancing the Ministries of the Gospel"), it carries on a worldwide evangelistic and relief ministry and has it headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Dr. Zodhiates is a recognized authority on the Greek New Testament, and has edited an edition of the Modern Greek New Testament which was publised by the Million Testaments Campaigns and the American Bible SOciety. He is the author of numerous exegetical books and booklets in both the Greek and English languages. In addition, he is heard daily on the New Testament Light radio and television program, released over a network of stations across the United States and Canada.