Prayers/Dallas Willard
My Prayer For You
My Prayer For You
That you would have a rich life of joy and power,
abundant in supernatural results,
with a constant, clear vision
of never-ending life in God's World before you,
and of the everlasting significance of your work day by day.
A radiant life and death.
- Dallas Willard
- See also https://renovare.org/events/good-grief
- https://www.soulshepherding.org/personal-reflections-from-dallas-willards-funeral
Priestly Blessing (Paraphrase)
May you experience grace—God acting in your life, in your thoughts, in your feelings, in your rest. May his face shine upon you. May his shining face lift up over you as you lie down, as you sleep, and give you the thoughts you need to have. The blessing of the Trinity rest upon you and everything you are and do. Let it be so. Amen.
- Dallas Willard, Living in Christ's Presence[1]
The Lord's Prayer (Paraphrase)
Dallas Willard’s Paraphrase of The Lord’s Prayer, from The Divine Conspiracy[2]
Dear Father always near us,[3]
may your name be treasured and loved,
may your rule be completed in us—
may your will be done here on earth in
just the way it is done in heaven.
Give us today the things we need today,
and forgive us our sins and impositions on you
as we are forgiving all who in any way offend us.
Please don’t put us through trials,[4]
but deliver us from everything bad.
Because you are the one is charge,
and you have all the power,
and the glory too is all yours—forever—
which is just the way we want it!
Optional: Whoopee!!
- See Dallas Willard's teaching on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LQGu6G-cuG0?t=4561
Sources
- ↑ Dallas Willard, Living in Christ’s Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2017), 9.
- ↑ Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God, 1st ed. (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998), 269.
- ↑ Dallas Willard explains that for the biblical writers, heaven is close. The “first heavens” is a term used to describe the earth’s atmosphere. So when Jesus describes the invisible realm that God inhabits, he lets us know it’s not only “out there,” but also as near as the atmosphere surrounding our bodies. The Universe in 57 Words (Page 20). See also Deuteronomy 4:36
- ↑ Dallas Willard explains that temptations is not a precise translation. It is referring to trials.