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Matthew 6:9-13 - The Lord’s Prayer

Use the actions described below as you say the words of the Lord’s Prayer.

• Our (point both hands to the chest)

• Father (hug own body)

• Who art in heaven (raise both hands upwards)

• Hallowed be thy name (place hands together in prayer)

• Thy kingdom come (‘pull’ heaven down out of the sky to your chest with both hands)

• Thy will be done (with elbows into your side touch your shoulders with both hands at the same time – left hand to left shoulder, right to right – then lower both hands down, as if offering them, stopping when your hands at a 90 degree angle out in front of the body)

• On earth (spread hands down towards ground and around, indicating the earth)

• As it is in heaven (spread hands up and around to indicate heaven)

• Give us this day (start with hands out in a receiving position, then draw them inwards and close the fists at the same time)

• Our daily bread (using left hand as a piece of bread, use right index and middle fingers together to perform the action of spreading butter back and forth across the left hand)

• And forgive us our trespasses (use both hands in a motion of flinging something away)

• As we (point to self with both hands)

• Forgive those (repeat forgiving action above)

• Who trespass against us (clench both fists, and bang the right one down on top of the left one, as if hammering it once)

• And lead us not into temptation (Keeping fists closed, cross wrists as if they are tied together)

• But deliver us from evil (pull wrists apart as if being suddenly freed)

• For Thine is the Kingdom (use both hands, with fingers pointing upwards, to make a crown for your head)

• The Power (use both hands to show biceps in a power action)

• And the Glory (lift arms together over head, and bring them down and out to each side to form a glorious circle)

• Forever and ever (arms move in two steps out to each side, simultaneously, as if drawing a rounded sort of M-shape)

• Amen (hands come together in prayer)

Source:
Karen Holford
www.secadventist.org

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