Praying to the Father

Matthew 7:9-14
"Pray then like this:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.
Your Kingdom come, Your will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."

This sequence comes to us in the Sermon on the Mount from Matthew 5-7.  It is Jesus' direct teaching on prayer.  As we start another week, I have a simple request for devotional homework.  Every day this week, as we wake up in the morning, let us commit to praying this prayer as the start to our day.  In this way we will be, in the most literal sense, devoting ourselves to God as He has commanded.