11: Give us this day our daily bread.
Possibly MY most prayed passage of the Bible. I guess it's sort of crass but with a day to day income it's very applicable. So far this prayer has been answered very generously.
It is part of the 'Our Father' passage in Matthew.
When it comes to directions for living a holy life that prayer says most of it if not all.
We get forgiven in the measure that we forgive, always a challenge.
We hope to evade bad actions by avoiding evil circumstances.
We pray that God's will be effective here on earth.
Of course what IS God's will is not defined and is described in wildly different ways by different people. We come back to the forgiveness factor. We pray that God does not hold our mistakes against us. In preparation for that we do not hold other people's mistakes against them. That there will be mistakes and even deliberate errors is a given. What we do about them and think about them is a choice.
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