DALLAS WILLARD’S PARAPHRASE OF THE LORD’S PRAYER

 

Dear Father always near us, may your name be treasured and loved, may your rule be completed in us— may your will be done here on earth in just the way it is done in heaven.

Give us today the things we need today, and forgive us our sins and impositions on you as we are forgiving all who in any way offend us. Please don’t put us through trials, but deliver us from everything bad. Because you are the one in charge, and you have all the power, and the glory too is all yours—forever— which is just the way we want it! 

From A Divine Conspiracy (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998), 269

Dallas Willard on Kingdom Praying

“Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.” 

― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God