A Posture of Prayer for 2026

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, Amen.
- Matthew 6:9-13

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
- Matthew 6:5-6

And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
- Matthew 6:7-8

This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever, Amen.’
- Matthew 6:9-13

Reverence

Humility

Dependence

Reverence - Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Humility - And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
- James 4:17

For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
- Matthew 6:14-15

If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
- 1 John 1:8-9

Dependence - Give us today our daily bread. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Isaiah 53:6

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
- Martin Luther

He who kneels the most, stands the best.
- D.L. Moody