Praying the Lord’s Prayer Post ResurrectionThe Lord’s Prayer was taught before the cross, resurrection, ascension, and outpouring of the Holy Spirit. So how should Christians understand and pray it now?In this episode, we examine how the Lord’s Prayer remains fully relevant after the resurrection while taking on greater depth through the blood of the new covenant, the risen Christ, and the indwelling Holy Spirit.Why are the apostles never recorded reciting the Lord’s Prayer word for word? Why does Paul say that we do not always know what to pray for as we ought? What do the prayers in Acts, the Epistles, and Revelation reveal about effective New Testament prayer?We explore how each major petition continues:“Our Father” becomes more fully understood through adoption and the Spirit of sonship.“Thy kingdom come” is expressed through the advance of the gospel and the kingdom of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.“Thy will be done” becomes prayer for spiritual wisdom, obedience, holiness, and discernment.“Forgive us” is now explicitly grounded in the blood and completed sacrifice of Christ.“Lead us not into temptation” includes Spirit-enabled resistance, endurance, and God’s promised way of escape.“Deliver us from evil” expands into deliverance from the evil one, the cravings of the flesh, the seduction of the world, and this present evil age.The apostles did not replace the Lord’s Prayer. They unfolded it.The Lord’s Prayer gives us the permanent priorities of prayer. The prayers of the New Testament show those priorities fully opened through the cross, resurrection, ascension, kingdom, and Holy Spirit.

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