The famous prayers found in the Bible deserve our close attention.

The Model Prayer, Jesus' High Priestly Prayer,

and John's prayer at the end of the Bible are among the most important of these noteworthy prayers. We need to

learn much from them about how we are to draw near to God.

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The Model Prayer

In the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5-7), Jesus' most famous sermon, Jesus gave the Model Prayer (Matt. 6:9-13; cf.

Luke 11:1-4). This may be the most famous prayer of all. Although it is often referred to as the Lord's Prayer, that

designation is not the best because it is not a record of what Jesus Himself prayed--it records what He taught His

disciples to pray.

Jesus began the Model Prayer by commanding His disciples about the manner in which they are to pray. He thus

directed them concerning the key elements that should be a part of their prayer life, but He did not say that they must

always say these exact same words. The prayer pattern that He gave has two main sections in it. After addressing

God as our heavenly Father, the first section has three requests that focus on the interests of God Himself:

Hallowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

The second section then has three requests that more directly concern us:

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

The prayer then closes by saying, "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."

From the Model Prayer, we should learn to put God's interests first when we pray. Although we are also to make our

needs known to God, we should have this right perspective in doing so. Using this model on a daily basis, we will

fulfill one aspect of being a true disciple of Christ.

Jesus' High Priestly Prayer

Unlike the Model Prayer, Jesus' High Priestly Prayer (John 17:1-26) is a record of what He actually prayed. If any

prayer deserves to be called the Lord's Prayer, it is this one. As the Great High Priest, He prayed for His own to the

Father. It is the longest prayer of Jesus found in the Bible and reveals much about the heart of Jesus and of God the
Father.
Many have ably analyzed this famous prayer; the three points found in the New Open Bible: Study Edition is one

good way to cover its key ideas: "Christ prays for Himself"; "Christ prays for His disciples"; and, "Christ prays for all

believers." (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1990), 1204. Using these main headings to organize our

understanding of the prayer, we should learn some major truths. Like the Model Prayer, Jesus began with a focus on

the interests of God: "Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee" (17:1). The first

section focuses on the glory of the Father and the Son in the remaining verses as well (five total occurrences of

words concerned with glory in the section [17:1-5]). From both the Model Prayer and this prayer, we thus learn that

we should focus on the glory of God in our prayers.

The second section (17:6-19) includes several key ideas in Jesus' praying for His disciples. He highlighted His giving

them the words that the Father gave Him, making known the Father's name to them, and requesting that the Father

would keep and sanctify them. We should learn to talk to God about the words that He has given us and to thank Him

for sending Jesus to make the Father's name known to us. We should also learn to ask the Father to protect us from

the evil of the world and the evil one (note the parallel with the Model Prayer [Matt. 6:13]). Finally, we should also ask

Him to sanctify us through His truth.

The final section (17:20-26) reveals Jesus' praying for all believers concerning their unity in the Father and the Son so

that the world would believe that the Father sent Jesus. In this prayer, He also prayed for their unity so that the world

may know that the Father sent Jesus and loves the world, as He has loved Jesus. Jesus requested as well that all

believers might be with Him where He is so that they may behold His glory that the Father has given Him. Jesus

concluded by speaking of His making known the Father's name to believers so that the Father's love with which He

has loved Jesus might be in them and that Jesus might be in them.

We learn from this famous prayer that we must pray concerning the unity of all believers so that the world might know

through that unity both Jesus as the God-sent One and the Father's love for them. We should also ask to be with

Jesus that we might behold His glory. We should request as well both that the Father's love for Jesus and that Jesus

Himself might be in us.

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From this sacred prayer, we see that Jesus focused on the glory of the Father and the Son both at its beginning and

its ending. We need to learn to have the same focus in our praying.

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