The point of the index is to act as a pointer to the substance. That’s exactly what index praying was all about. The rabbis would provide the points for prayer, like an index, and the people would fill in the substance—their own prayers. This is the method Jesus was teaching in this prayer. Can you now see the Lords Prayer is like that? And what an index of titles!
1. Worshiping the Father
2. God’s kingdom
3. God’s will/guidance
4. Our daily needs
5. Forgiveness/relationships
6. Spiritual warfare
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
1 John 5:14-15 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/1jn.5.14-15.NIV
Surely I must have been praying according to his will if I was praying the prayer he gave.
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