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Maker of heaven and earth

Heidelberg Catechism

Heidelberg Catechism Question 27. What do you understand by the providence of God? The almighty and ever-present power of God whereby he still upholds, as it were by his own hand, heaven and earth together with all creatures, and rules in such a way that leaves and grass, rain and drought, fruitful and unfruitful years, food and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, and everything else, come to us not by chance but by his fatherly hand.

Heidelberg Catechism Question 28. What advantage comes from acknowledging God’s creation …

He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty

Heidelberg Catechism

Heidelberg Catechism Question 46. How do you understand the words: “He ascended into heaven”? That Christ was taken up from the earth into heaven before the eyes of his disciples and remains there on our behalf until he comes again to judge the living and the dead.

Heidelberg Catechism Question 47. Then, is not Christ with us unto the end of the world, as he has promised us? Christ is true man and true God. As a man he …

Our Father, who art in heaven

Heidelberg Catechism

Heidelberg Catechism Question 120. Why has Christ commanded us to address God: “Our Father”? That at the very beginning of our prayer he may awaken in us the childlike reverence and trust toward God which should be the motivation of our prayer, which is that God has become our Father through Christ and will much less deny us what we ask him in faith than our human fathers will refuse us earthly things.

Heidelberg Catechism Question 121. Why is there added: “who art in heaven”? That we may …

Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven

Heidelberg Catechism

Heidelberg Catechism Question 124. What is the third petition? “Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” That is: grant that we and all men may renounce our own will and obey thy will, which alone is good, without grumbling, so that everyone may carry out his office and calling as willingly and faithfully as the angels in heaven.

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Shorter Catechism Question 103. What do we pray for in the third petition? In the third …