In this episode we look at these important principles. If you have been trying to pray the Lord's Prayer and it's not been a great experience, this super-practical podcast will coach you in how to get more from it.

If it has been a growing blessing to you, find out ways to even gain more-- there is no limit!

But God is holy, and the scriptures speak of the beauty of holiness....  so there is something here to reclaim, a true perspective on the worth, even the JOY of holiness! 

Enjoy this newest podcast and get excited about a new pursuit of holiness that we can discover by praying the Lord's Prayer! ​

Let’s consider the global Church, the trends and the macro things that God is doing right now…

How does this reactivation, this refocusing on the Lord’s Prayer fit into God’s big plan? This is the topic of this episode of Rooted Prayer. The Four Big Reasons!

As we consider these 4 reasons, we’ll be inspired to continue to pray the Lord’s Prayer and even encourage others to do so.

Today is the Day of Ascension, the day when Jesus ascended to heaven to take up the full authority as King of Kings. “All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me…”  (Mt 28:18)
Today is also the day the Great Commission was given, a commission all about the expanding of Jesus’ Kingdom into the hearts of men, women, and children throughout the nations. It’s a day to celebrate Jesus’ authority and leadership — but also a day to pray for global harvest. 

Actually, it’s more than just one day to pray, it’s a day to be refocused in prayer for the harvest that is before us!   
Growing initiatives are rising around the globe for seeing harvest sweep the nations — 

• The Thy Kingdom Come prayer initiative that began by the Anglicans but which has exploded. Ten days of focused prayer for people to come to Christ. May 10-20 
• The Global Outreach Day — May 26th 
• The C2C Network’s call to prayer based on Luke 10:2. Set your smartphone to alert you daily at 10:02 am and stop to pray for labourers to be sent out into the harvest. 

​Let’s pray the Lord’s Prayer with fresh zeal for when we pray: “Your kingdom come” we are partnering with what Jesus is awakening in the nations right now — prayer for harvest! 
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Download the latest episode of Rooted Prayer to be stirred and inspired! 

Towards the end of the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus instructs us to pray this:
“Forgive us our sins…as we forgive… those that have sinned against us.”

As we forgive?
Wow! Did He really mean that!?

How do we react to such a prayer? Perhaps we’ve prayed through it quickly and haven’t paused to realize what we are saying. Or perhaps we’ve been mumbling this part, cause it’s something that is so radical, so costly, we aren’t sure if we can actually honestly pray it!

Either way, we have a window into God’s heart for forgiveness, which is both exhilarating with hope (we can be forgiven!!) and daunting as we come to grips with the standard Jesus has set (we must also forgive!)
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Giving forgiveness to others, those that have hurt us, betrayed us, used us– is hard. Some of us have even given up and allowed unforgiveness a little room in our life’s attic because fully evicting it seems utterly beyond us. We just live in a way where we avoid opening that attic door. But Jesus is calling us to be disciples to look like Him, sound like Him, act like Him, and He is both quick and generous in His forgiveness.

In this Rooted Prayer episode, we are exploring how to pray this part of the prayer with victory. How to authenticly become a people of forgiveness!!

While the Lord’s Prayer is not a magic formula that fixes all that ails you…

Yet it is full of the gospel, it is full of Jesus and this means it becomes a way for us to have Him touch us, ministering to our needy and often, broken hearts.
Our society is moving towards more and more division, polarization, and isolation. The result is loneliness everywhere, as the most prevalent felt need, and most acutely so in urban centres.

But the Lord’s Prayer is a prayer of unity, community, and communion. 

• It builds unity like no other prayer.
• It gives us keys for building a community that is healthy and redemptive.
• It welcomes us into communion, where we walk in intimate relationship with the Father.

All of these (and more) lead us out of the exile of loneliness. 
So whether you find yourself in moments of loneliness or it has been a crippling feature of your life for a long time, you can learn how the Lord’s Prayer gently leads us out in this newest Podcast.

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Easter is the time when praise should be explosive!
We have so much to celebrate, so much that should bring us to awe!

Did you know that the Lord’s Prayer is a prayer of praise? It opens and closes with declaring the praises of God and teaches us that prayer and praise are two sides of the same coin.  How’s praise doing in your life? Is it robust, brimming with faith and revelation of Jesus? Or has it waned as you’ve encountered distractions, disappointments and stress?
Let’s reboot praise!
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Here’s our latest podcast episode where we explore how to do just that and why rebooting praise at Easter makes so much sense.

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Happy Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Resurrection Sunday!!!

When it’s said of someone that they have something in their bones, what we mean it that it is so integral to them, that it’s found right in the core of who they are.
Well, the Lord’s Prayer has revival in its bones! When you consider what you are actually praying when you pray the words of the Lord’s Prayer, it is astonishing! It’s revolutionary! If everyone in the Body of Christ prayed this prayer daily …and meant it… there is no doubt that we would shift into a tremendous revival!
Want to know more?
Have a listen to this episode on revival and find out how the Lord’s Prayer leads you into personal revival and and positions your prayer to go after the exact issues that are needed to release national revival!

If you are now interested in the Canadian Mantles of Revival book, you can order your copy here.

​It’s a book full of stories of how God has granted revivals to Canada, generation after generation. It’s guaranteed to stir your faith and stir your prayers!

“Give us this day our daily bread!"

Most people, when considering this petition of asking for daily bread in the Lord’s Prayer (Lu 11:3) think immediately about provision. This is indeed a prayer for provision and it’s recognizing that regardless of what we have in the bank, or what kind of job we have, God is always, ultimately our Provider.

But there are some questions about provision that we should ask, like… “How much is enough?”
If we are recommending you pray this prayer daily, do you daily ask for MORE, even if you have lots? How much is enough?

How do we protect our hearts from the love of money if we are daily asking for more?In this podcast we are exploring all these questions and looking at the secret Paul taught us in handling money, even lots of money, without it influencing our hearts.
Enjoy!

Even though you may be a Christian, do you ever feel alone and abandoned? Do you feel like you have to protect yourself, provide for yourself, or fight to be noticed? These and more are symptoms of a Orphan Mindset, a way of thinking and believing that doesn’t reflect the biblical reality of being adopted in Christ.
Sadly this is a mindset that we all struggle with to some degree and at some times.
But here’s the really good news: If you are a Christian, you have been adopted, by the most caring and skilled Father imaginable.

Yet so often we live like we haven’t been, we are afraid that we won’t have enough so we aren’t free to be generous. When relationships get tested, we react badly, seeking to control the outcome or protect what we feel we need. When we aren’t affirmed or encouraged we loose heart and can’t endure…  These are all signs that we are not living in that identity of adoption.
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Jesus knew this when He gave us the Lord’s Prayer. He knew that praying the Lord’s Prayer daily would bring healing to our hearts and transform our thoughts. He knew it would  be an incredible tool that the Father would use to set us free from Orphan Mindsets. This is what we are exploring in this new episode, The Top 8 Ways God Breaks the Orphan Mindset — Through the Lord’s Prayer.

Being set free from this crippling mindset will lead us into greater and greater confidence, peace, generosity, boldness, faith, joy and more.
I promise you, you want this!!!