Addressing God as Father in Prayer

Every line in the Lord’s Prayer points to the action of the One to whom one prays. The Father.  I have put in bold Father-references and in brackets where Father could be inserted. Of course, Jesus did not repeat Father over and over the way some have chosen to pray in public.

Matt. 6:9   “This, then, is how you should pray:

“ ‘Our Father in heaven,
hallow…