Lord's Day 46

To awaken in us at the very beginning of our prayer that childlike reverence and trust toward God which should be basic to our prayer: God has become our Father through Christ and will much less deny us what we ask him in faith than our fathers would refuse us earthly things.

These words are added to teach us not to think of God's heavenly majesty in an earthly manner, and to expect from his almighty power all things we need for body and soul.