The Lord's Prayer - Elisabeth Radtke

We read in Matthew 6 and Luke 11, the disciples coming to Jesus, saying; Jesus, tell us how to pray. It wasn't that they didn't pray already. In the Jewish culture at that time they would pray at least three times a day. They had specific prayers to pray for specific occasions. They knew how to recite prayers, prayer was a part of their daily life. But there was something in Jesus prayer life, in his communication with his Father, that made them say; we want to learn to pray the way you pray Jesus. And as a response to their request, Jesus taught them what we call 'the Lord's prayer'. One of the most known paragraphs in the whole bible. A prayer that is prayed throughout the world and has been prayed continually for the last 2000 years. It's estimated that on one day, Easter Sunday, about 2 billion people around the world pray this prayer.