And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Matthew 6:13
“The Lord’s Prayer has an ending which nearly summarizes the different requests. We say actually at the end: ‘but deliver us from evil,’ understanding by such an expression everything that the enemy can devise against us in this world.
One certain conviction we have: that God is a powerful support since He grants His help to anyone who asks for it. Consequently, when we say: ‘deliver us from evil,’ there is nothing else left for us to ask. Invoking the protection of God against evil means asking for everything we need.
This prayer secures us against any kind of machination of the devil and of the world. Who could be afraid of the world if he has God as his Protector? You see, brothers and sister, how amazing the Lord’s Prayer is. It is truly a compendium of all the requests we could possibly make.”
Cyprian of Carthage in On the Lord’s Prayer (PL4, 538) in Drinking from the Hidden Fountain: A Patristic Breviary, Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World, ed. by Thomas Spidlik (Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1994) 353.
Deliver us from evil.
Free us from trusting in money for security. Provide for our needs. Supply that which satisfies. Save us from worldly thinking. Liberate us from lies. Transform us with truth. Protect us from the plague.
Deliver us from evil.
Remind us that in you we have everything we need. From that place, unleash heaven through us. Transform us into generous conduits of love and blessing because we lack nothing in You.
Deliver us from evil.