Page 89 - The Prophetic Word Newsletter Archive 2009

The order in which this prayer reads is not how it works.
It reads as a prayer of descent from the highest principle to the lowest:

OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN:
HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME,

YOUR KINGDOM COME,
YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH

AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.

GIVE US DAY BY DAY OUR DAILY BREAD,

AND FORGIVE US OUR SINS,
FOR WE ALSO FORGIVE EVERYONE WHO IS INDEBTED TO US.

AND DO NOT LEAD US INTO TEMPTATION,
BUT DELIVER US FROM THE EVIL ONE.’ ”
Luke 11:1-4 NKJ

I would like to suggest to you that
in practical application,
the seven stated principles
contained within this prayer are
ASCENDING truths rather than
DESCENDING ones.
By that statement, I simply mean
that the prayer is to be viewed
as working from the bottom to the
top rather than from the top to
the bottom.

This is not unusual in God’s Love is certainly the greatest
Word. Often the highest truth is attribute a believer can
stated first but is not how it is
practically worked out in our manifest (1 Cor. 13:13). It is
lives. Consider another pyramid singled out as “…the bond of
of truth that although listed from perfection” that is to be put on
the top to the bottom, it too works
from the bottom to the top: by the believer (Col. 3:14).
However,
“…THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS
in considering this list of the
fruit of God’s Spirit at work in
the life of the believer, the first
thing God must impart to the

new convert is the need for
self-control over his flesh

nature. The believer who lacks
self-control in his or her

relationships cannot possibly
manifest the capstone truth of

love which “…bears all
things…endures all things
(and) never fails” (1 Cor. 13:7-8).

Gal. 5:22-23