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The Lord's Prayer

Lord's Prayer II: Bread, Forgiveness, Temptation, and Rescue

Sunday, December 20, 2026

Big Question

What does Jesus teach us to ask for in our daily needs, failures, temptations, and fears?

What Does the Catechism Say?

Petitions 4-7 and Amen

What does this mean?

The final petitions bring daily needs, forgiveness, temptation, evil, and confident Amen before the Father who promises to hear through Christ.

Official Book of Concord text from Concordia Publishing House.

Law

What truth does God's Word expose?

We fail to recognize daily bread, withhold forgiveness, walk into temptation, and cannot rescue ourselves from evil.

Gospel

What does Christ give or promise?

The Father gives daily bread, forgives through Christ, strengthens in temptation, and promises final rescue from evil.

Jesus at the Center

Jesus places every bodily and spiritual need into a prayer shaped by His forgiveness and the Father's promise to hear.

In Real Life

Faith where life actually happens.

  • Bring food, health, work, relationships, forgiveness, habits, danger, and fear into prayer.
  • Say Amen as confidence in God's promise, not confidence in your concentration.

South Lake Confirmation Book

Catechism in Real Life

Week 3Lord's Prayer, Petitions 4-7 and AmenPages 105-114

Look for: How Jesus gathers bodily needs, forgiveness, temptation, and rescue into trusting prayer.

  • Prayer receives and asks from the Father.
  • Forgiven people learn to forgive.
  • Amen rests in God's promise to hear.
Review

Read the final petitions and name one present need under each.

Keep the Faith

South Lake Confirmation

The Great Deceiver (Session 3 - The Power of Prayer)

Its focus on the adversary and the power of darkness connects most directly with the petitions about temptation and deliverance from evil.

Video resources support Scripture, the Small Catechism, pastoral teaching, and family conversation. They do not replace them.

Watch & Learn

Trusted Lutheran Resource

A carefully selected resource to support this session after Scripture, the Small Catechism, and South Lake's teaching.

Talk About It

Questions for honest conversation.

  1. What belongs under daily bread that you had not considered before?
  2. How does being forgiven change the way we forgive?

At the Kitchen Table

Pray the full Lord's Prayer together, then name one real-life need under each petition.

Ten thoughtful minutes is plenty. Listen before correcting, welcome honest questions, and end in prayer.