Foundations for Prayer for Christians who need a starting place
Since 11-16-11
The Lord's Prayer
Taken from the
Anglican Book of Common Prayer, 1662.
Our Father, which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth,
As it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
The power, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
Amen.
The Ten Commandments
(Exodus 20:2-17 NKJV)
1.
“I am the Lord your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall
have no other gods before Me.
2. “You
shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is
in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under
the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your
God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to
the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to
thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3.
“You shall not take the name of
the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes
His name in vain.
4.
“Remember the Sabbath day, to
keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day
is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your
son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your
cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord
made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the
seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5. “Honor
your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the
Lord your God is giving you.
6.
“You shall not murder.
7. “You
shall not commit adultery.
8.
“You shall not steal.
9.
“You shall not bear false
witness against your neighbor.
10.
“You shall not
covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his
male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything
that is your neighbor's.”
Apostles' Creed
I believe in God the Father,
Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:
And in Jesus Christ, his only
begotten Son, our Lord:
Who was conceived by the Holy
Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary:
Suffered under Pontius Pilate;
was crucified, dead and buried: He descended into hell:
The third day he rose again from
the dead:
He ascended into heaven, and
sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty:
From thence he shall come to
judge the quick and the dead:
I believe in the Holy Ghost:
I believe in the holy catholic
church: the communion of saints:
The forgiveness of sins:
The resurrection of the body:
And the life everlasting.
Amen.