About the Book

Welcome to the authors’ site!  We hope you will find the discussions here rewarding and spiritually uplifting. Our site is all about the Lord’s Prayer and how we have created a new method of biblical interpretation (mathematically based) to reveal its power and impact in our lives. The details are in our  book “The Lord’s Prayer: A Mathematician’s Creed” available from Amazon.com.  However, please feel free to download an e-version  here.

The goal of the book is to answer two questions pertaining to Ephesians 2:8 – 9, quoted below from the King James Version of the Bible:

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

These questions are:

  1. What is precisely the faith referred to in Ephesians 2:8?
  2. Given that one’s deed is not required to receive God’s gift of grace, how then do we say or proclaim this faith and to whom should we proclaim this faith?

It is shown that an outcome of biblical mathematics is the astonishing conclusion that the Lord’s Prayer itself is the proclamation of faith mentioned in Ephesians 2:8 and the seemingly unremarkable number 153 in John 21:11 links the Lord’s Prayer with our faith in the fulfillment if the will of the Father in His Son, Jesus Christ.  Apart from providing the answers to (1) and (2), biblical mathematics also provides the means to show that the Lord’s Prayer is actually a deep reservoir of messages that are the central tenets of the Christian faith and is a means to partake in sanctification.

In the book, 12 major results related to the Lord’s Prayer  are uncovered:

  1. When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, the grace and peace we receive from the Father is multiplied or increased by the power of the Holy Spirit.
  2. When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we acknowledge the sovereignty of the Father.
  3. When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we proclaim our faith in the fulfillment of the will of His Father in His Son, Jesus Christ.
  4. The Lord’s Prayer is the foremost proclamation of faith in the fulfillment of the will of His Father in His Son, Jesus Christ.
  5. When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we acknowledge the Father and His love for us.
  6. When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we are led by the Holy Spirit to become more like Jesus Christ.
  7. When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the judge of humanity.
  8. It is the will of the Father that we should pray the Lord’s Prayer at the times acceptable to Him.
  9. The Lord’s Prayer is to be prayed daily at the prescribed times, namely, {10.35 am,10.53 am,1.35 pm,1.53 pm,3.15 pm, 3.51 pm, 5.13 pm, 5.31 pm}.
  10. The Lord’s Prayer, prayed daily at the prescribed times presents our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.
  11. At the prescribed times, we can accompany the Lord’s Prayer with our own personal prayers of thanksgiving and requests.
  12. The Lord’s Prayer is the covenant of the Redeemer of Isaiah 59, Jesus Christ.

In the book, we showed that the Cross of Jesus Christ is the sign of the covenant of the Redeemer of Isaiah 59.  Indeed, as we showed in our book, the prayer pattern of the Lord’s Prayer is a continual reminder of the message of the cross, for it daily focuses the attention on and belief in Christ’s death on the cross, which is central to the Christian faith, as we read in 1 Peter 2:24 – 25 (ERV):

24 Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross. He did this so that we would stop living for sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you were healed. 25 You were like sheep that went the wrong way. But now you have come back to the Shepherd and Protector of your lives.

The Lord’s Prayer emphasizes the sufficiency and the centrality of the Cross of Jesus Christ, and encapsulates the essence of Jesus’ teachings and the Gospel’s message.

Dr. Jito Vanualailai

jito.vanualailai@usp.ac.fj