Jesus is teaching us he saying to his disciples I had to go through the gauntlet I had to go to the test

but I want you to pray that the Father not ever have to make those tests on you.

As I pray with family or friends, I often hear people praying for God's provision in many areas

and even praying for forgiveness, but I find it's far less common to hear people

praying what we read in the final portion of the Lord's prayer, lead us not into

temptation but deliver us from evil. Is that your experience as well? This is

the Friday edition of Renewing Her Mind.

Perhaps we're slow to pray that because we don't understand what it is and why it is that Jesus

instructed us to pray that way.

And that's why a series like this from R.C. Sprawled Jesus instructed us to pray that way.

And that's why a series like this from R.C. Sprawl

can be so helpful as he shines a light,

as it were, on a familiar portion of scripture

and considers the text deeply. It's why I encourage you to listen to the entire

series and read his companion book The Prayer of the Lord. Today's the final day

but you can learn how to own both at renewing your mind dot org.

This portion of the Lord's prayer is often misunderstood by Christians

so here's Dr Sprole to help clear away that confusion.

It is my earnest hope today to finish our brief study of the Lord's prayer.

We've gone through several of the petitions so far and now we move to a

section of the prayer that is often seriously misunderstood and we've looked at it in other

contexts in our classes as an example of a Hebrew form of literature that is very frequent in the Old Testament, particularly in the poetic books,

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