Pray Like This

There’s a question many of us don’t really want to be asked: “How’s your prayer life going?”

The honest answer would often be an embarrassed “Not very well”. Perhaps it feels a bit stale. Not very regular. Too self-focused. But we know how precious and important prayer is. So where do we turn? How do we fix this?

Being a disciple of Jesus means learning from him with the goal of becoming like him. To transform and improve our prayers, we should start at the very place where Jesus teaches his disciples to “pray like this”.

So let respected Christian author Kel Richards be your guide as he unpacks the Lord’s Prayer by explaining the meaning and significance of its 21 key words.

Kel’s book is packed with practical tips and advice, including how to cultivate one-sentence prayers throughout your day, and encouragement to apply the ‘TAP principle’ of trusting, asking and persisting. You’ll learn to pray not just for yourself but as part of a global family embracing forgiveness and seeking God’s help and protection in a challenging world.

• Thinking about praying
• The Lord’s Prayer
• Word 1: Like
• Word 2: Our
• Word 3: Father
• Word 4: Heaven
• Word 5: Name
• Word 6: Hallowed
• Word 7: Kingdom
• Word 8: Come
• Word 9: Will
• Word 10: Earth
• Word 11: Done
• Word 12: Bread
• Word 13: Daily
• Word 14 Forgive
• Word 15: Sins
• Word 16: Everyone
• Word 17: Temptation
• Word 18: Lead
• Word 19: Deliver
• Word 20: Evil
• Word 21: Amen
• The TAP principle
• How to use the Lord’s Prayer

Kel is a veteran Australian author, journalist and broadcaster. In a long and distinguished career, he has hosted ABC radio's flagship daily current affairs show AM and his own talkback shows on commercial radio. For 12 years Kel wrote and presented the popular daily feature Word Watch on ABC NewsRadio (more than 2,000 episodes in all). Kel currently appears on Sky News Australia and on 2GB (and the Nine Radio Network). He is a columnist for The Spectator Australia and Australian Geographic. Among his many books is the bestseller The Aussie Bible. Kel is married to Barbara. They have two children and three grandchildren. Kel and Barbara are member of St Paul’s, Chatswood.