The Lord's Prayer is the most powerful prayer in the Bible, taught by Jesus to those closest to him. Step by step, phrase by phrase, The Prayer that Turns the World Upside Down explains what these words mean and how we are to pray them. recaptures the urgency and transformational nature of the prayer, revealing once again its remarkable, world-upending power. Far from a safe series of comforting words, the Lord's Prayer makes extraordinary claims, topples every earthly power, and announces God's reign over all things in heaven and on earth. But to the disciples who first heard these words from Jesus, the prayer was a thunderbolt, a radical new way to pray that changed them and the course of history. 'Our Father, who art in heaven.' The opening words of the Lord's Prayer have become so familiar that we often speak them without a thought, sometimes without any awareness that we are speaking at all. Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down: The Lord's Prayer as a Manifesto for Revolution New International Commentary of the Old Testament.
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