Turn your perspective around and go against the times
Turn your perspective on the world upside down with the Lord's Prayer.
Living by the order and principles of the Kingdom of God

A world where 'I' am important.
When you walk through a busy area or use public transportation, you see a variety of people.
Especially when you walk down the street, you will see many people who dress according to their own taste without worrying about what other people think.
It seems that I value myself and consider my own satisfaction as an important value.
But the consciousness directed toward oneself, to the extent that it respected the individual's firm taste, resulted in a more thorough separation between you and me.
Because self-satisfaction is so important, many people consider other people's opinions and thoughts as unnecessary interference and do not try to care about them.
And it developed into indifference, and we ended up living together, creating a line that we should not cross.


In this phenomenon, people live with thorns all over their bodies.
They consider outsiders other than themselves as intruders and do not allow them to enter their territory.
He also expresses his discomfort without reservation and demands an apology from you who entered his territory and caused harm.
This can be easily seen in the news, which is full of people suing each other.
In addition, people are becoming extremely polarized, criticizing, sharpening their swords, and being hostile to those with different political ideologies.


The place we must run to.
So how should Christians live in these times? In a world where self-importance is becoming increasingly important, what does God want Christians to cling to and how do they live? The author addresses these questions with the Lord's Prayer.
Through the Lord's Prayer taught by the Lord, it explains the form and direction of Christians living in this world and suggests the direction of life.


The Lord's Prayer is not a formal prayer that we must mutter and recite, but rather a teaching of life that we must ponder and live by in our lives.
Thus, Christians pray to our Father in this important age, pray for us, and go forward toward a life of missionary work, hoping that God's life will flow throughout this land.
It leads us to become citizens of the Kingdom of God who turn the world's concepts and order upside down and live according to the order and principles of the Kingdom of God.

The author carefully explains the teachings the Lord has enshrined in the Lord's Prayer, offering comfort and encouragement to those who, like pilgrims on this journey of life, boldly walk toward the Lord, step by step.
I sincerely hope that through this book, you will slowly meditate on the Lord's Prayer that the Lord taught you, and live a life that follows the order of God's kingdom as a citizen of this world and hopes for the completion of God's kingdom.

The Lord's Prayer renews our old thoughts.
It allows us to break free from our inertia, which is bound by the order of this world, and look toward the kingdom of God.
And it makes us look to Jesus Christ, who brought the kingdom of God to this earth and who is the kingdom itself.
It makes us realize the calling to which Jesus has called us.
It leads us to ask for the power to proclaim and manifest the kingdom of God in our place.

--- p.18-19, from “Chapter 1 The Lord’s Prayer and the Kingdom of God”

The prayer the Lord taught us begins not with our needs but with the will of God the Father.
This does not mean that our needs should be completely ignored.
Of course, we must also pray for our needs.
But that doesn't mean it should be the ultimate goal and purpose of prayer.
It's the same reason why the purpose of our lives shouldn't be engrossed in the problems of what we eat, drink, and wear.

--- p.41, from “Chapter 3: Reverse the Order of Prayer”

On the other hand, when we say that we serve our Heavenly Father, it is rather to break our will and will.
What is more important than my will is the will of God the Father.
Those who agree with this and live by these principles are the people of the kingdom of God and the family of our Heavenly Father.
No matter how much one cries out, “Lord, Lord,” those who do not live with the determination to completely surrender themselves to the Father’s will are in fact no different from worshipping idols.
And Jesus said to such people, 'I never knew you' (Ref.
(Matthew 7:23)

--- p.73, from “Chapter 5 Where Heaven and Earth Meet”

So why did he teach us the prayer, "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive those who debt us"? Because it is a prayer for the community.
We have no way of repaying it and cannot repay it, but as children of God who have been saved and have received His love and mercy, our purpose is to imitate Him, follow Him, and practice that life.
And this is what the church community of today must be firmly trained and obedient to as it breathes and walks its pilgrimage on this earth as a community of God's children.

--- p.117, from “Chapter 7 Forgiveness”