The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down: The Lord's Prayer as a Manifesto for Revolution

by R. Albert Mohler, Jr.

Overview

“Our Father, who art in heaven….”

The opening words of the Lord’s Prayer have become so familiar that we often speak them without a thought, sometimes without any awareness that we are speaking at all. But to the disciples who first heard these words from Jesus, the prayer was a thunderbolt, a radical new way to pray that changed them and the course of history.

Far from a safe series of comforting words, the Lord’s Prayer makes extraordinary claims, topples every earthly power, and announces God’s reign over all things in heaven and on earth. In this groundbreaking new book, R. Albert Mohler Jr. recaptures the urgency and transformational nature of the prayer, revealing once again its remarkable, world-upending power. Step by step, phrase by phrase, The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down explains what these words mean and how we are to pray them.

The Lord’s Prayer is the most powerful prayer in the Bible, taught by Jesus to those closest to him. We desperately need to relearn its power and practice. The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down shows us how.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400207626
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	01/29/2019
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	864,929
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

R. Albert Mohler Jr. has been called "one of America's most influential evangelicals" (Economist) and the "reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement" (Time.com). The president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he writes a popular blog and a regular commentary, available at AlbertMohler.com, and hosts two podcasts: The Briefing and Thinking in Public. He is the author of many books, including We Cannot Be Silent and The Prayer that Turns the World Upside Down, and has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and on programs such as NBC's Today, ABC's Good Morning America, and PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He and his wife, Mary, live in Louisville, Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Introduction xv

Chapter 1 The Lord's Prayer: An Overview 1

Chapter 2 And When You Pray: Why Jesus Doesn't Think Much of Routine Christian Prayer 25

Chapter 3 Hallowing the Father's Name: Where Authentic Prayer Begins 37

Chapter 4 Your Kingdom Come: Whose Agenda is Our Concern Anyway? 89

Chapter 5 Give Us This Day: God's Abundant Physical Provisions 103

Chapter 6 Forgive Us Our Debts: The Prayer of God's New Covenant People 119

Chapter 7 Lead Us Not into Temptation: Fighting the Enemy Through Prayer 139

Epilogue Thine is the Kingdom 163

Acknowledgments 173

Notes 177

About the Author 181