09_The Model Prayer

That phrase, "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever," is often times referred to as the doxology. Jesus is teaching us to pray, He's teaching us that we need to attribute praise and glory to God. So that says to us, just very simply and obviously one of the things that we should be doing in our prayers is glorifying God.

If there is anything we don't do enough of, it is praising, glorifying, and magnifying the name of God. Perhaps some of that is just simply the fact that we feel a little bit inadequate, and we can't even begin to match the words of the Apostle Paul or the Psalmist David, but those are the words of the Holy Spirit. And so it wouldn't hurt us to try and remember some of those words when we pray and use that language to describe God or if nothing else just simply do as Paul and the Lord often did  and simply say, to God be the glory forever Just give God the glory Give God the praise and that's what we need to be doing in our prayers