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Q&A 120 Why did Christ command us to call God "our Father"?
- At the very beginning of our prayer
- Christ wants to kindle in us
- what is basic to our prayer--
- the childlike awe and trust
- that God through Christ has become
- our Father.
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- Our fathers do not refuse us
- the things of this life;
- God our Father will even less refuse to give us
- what we ask in faith.1
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- 1 Matt. 7:9-11; Luke 11:11-13
Q&A 121 Why the words "in heaven"?
- These words teach us
- not to think of God's heavenly majesty
- as something earthly,1
- and to expect everything
- for body and soul
- from his almighty power.2
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- 1 Jer. 23:23-24; Acts 17:24-25
- 2 Matt. 6:25-34; Rom. 8:31-32
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