IFS Lord’s Prayer Course: A Sacred Journey Into Jesus’ Way of Prayer
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A free course inside the Everything IFS Academy
The Lord’s Prayer is often treated as a memorized recitation familiar, brief, and safely contained within tradition. Spoken often, examined rarely. For many, its words have become so common that their weight is no longer felt.
But Jesus did not give this prayer as a ritual to repeat without attention. He gave it as a formation of the heart. A reorientation of how human beings relate to God, to themselves, and to one another. Every line carries intention. Every phrase reshapes posture. Nothing is incidental.
This free course explores the Lord’s Prayer through historical context, careful teaching, and a lens thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS). It is not therapy, and it does not replace Scripture, theology, or the Christian tradition of prayer. It is designed for readers who want to pray these words as Jesus intended not as performance, but as a lived way of being before God.
What This Course Offers
This course invites you to encounter the Lord’s Prayer as a coherent spiritual path rather than a series of isolated petitions a prayer that forms identity, desire, trust, and belonging over time.
Inside the course, you’ll explore:
Prayer as relationship rather than religious technique
Belonging as the foundation of spiritual life
The Kingdom of God as present reality, not distant hope
Dependence, forgiveness, and trust as daily formation
Prayer as a way of life rather than a spoken formula
Throughout the course, insights from Internal Family Systems (IFS) help illuminate how this prayer meets inner experience how belonging soothes fear, how surrender challenges control, how forgiveness confronts protection, and how trust is practiced rather than assumed.
This approach does not replace Scripture. It does not turn prayer into psychology. It offers another lens for noticing what is already there.
Chapter 1: The Prayer Behind the Prayer
Why Jesus Gave Us These Words
How the Early Church Understood the Lord’s Prayer
Chapter 2: Our Father Who Art in Heaven
A prayer that begins not with distance, but with relationship.
Our — A Prayer That Begins in Belonging, Not Separation
Father — What It Meant Then, What It Means Now
In Heaven — Not Distance, but Divine Perspective
Chapter 3: Hallowed Be Thy Name
Reverence, not ritual.
The Meaning of Hallowed
What Are We Actually Hallowing?
Chapter 4: Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done
A line that reshapes allegiance and desire.
Was Jesus Political or Prophetic?
What “Thy Will Be Done” Really Asks of Us
Chapter 5: On Earth As It Is in Heaven
The prayer’s radical vision of reality.
What Heaven on Earth Has Always Meant
How This Line Changes Everything
Chapter 6: Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Dependence as spiritual formation.
The Double Meaning of Bread
Manna, Trust, and the Discipline of Dependence
Chapter 7: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
The most unsettling line in the prayer.
The Scandal of Forgiveness
Why the Greek Word for Sin Isn’t What You Think
The Hidden Power of As
Chapter 8: Lead Us Not Into Temptation
A petition often misunderstood—and deeply misunderstood.
Would God Ever Lead Us Into Temptation?
Who Are We Being Delivered From?
Chapter 9: For Thine Is the Kingdom
A doxology with a complicated history.
Why This Ending Isn’t in Every Bible
The Prayer’s Climactic Crescendo
Chapter 10: Praying It as a Way of Life
From words spoken to a posture lived.
Our First Posture — Not Just Recitation
A Benediction for the Ones Who Dared to Pray
How This Course Is Different
You won’t find:
The Lord’s Prayer reduced to a religious slogan
Pressure to pray correctly or feel spiritually advanced
Shallow explanations that rush past difficult lines
You will find:
Careful attention to historical and linguistic context
Space for trust, resistance, longing, and surrender
An emphasis on formation over performance
Each lesson includes historical notes and optional reflective elements, encouraging slow, thoughtful engagement and allowing the prayer to shape life over time rather than remain confined to words.
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