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The Disciple’s
Prayer
Matthew 6:913
Prayer Emphasis: 2023
• 4x per week, Guided Prayer
• Monday: Praying God’s words for FBC
• Tuesday: Praying with/for your prayer partner
• Wednesday: Praying for our missionaries
• Weekend: Praying in preparation for worship
Matthew 6:9-13
• The Lord’s Prayer – Designed by Jesus to be a
pattern to follow (literally, “You all, therefore, be
praying thusly.”
• Part of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7)
and is preceded by other prayer instruction: (1)
pray so as not to be recognized by others; (2)
pray with certainty that God is omnipotent and
kind; He does not need phrases repeated over
and again.
• The Pattern: Frequent, God-Focused, Familiar,
Spiritual, and Collective.
Frequent
• Present Command – Be praying/Keep praying.
• Prayer for today – lit, “Give us today today’s
bread.”
• Assumed prayer – verses 5, 6, and 7 all begin
with the assumption that those who follow God
pray regularly.
God-Focused
• The prayer begins by addressing God and
affirming His sovereignty.
• The prayer is focused primarily on the things of
God:
1.
Your name be sanctified – Make your name special
2.
Your kingdom come – Kingdom arrives with the King
3.
Your will be done – more literally, “may your will
come about; may it be”
Familiar
• The prayer begins with an admonition to address
God as Father – see Isaiah 63:15-16, “For you are
our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and
Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O LORD, are
our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.”
• See also John 1:12 – the Lord’s prayer is a prayer
not for the world, but for born-again Christians (see
also Galatians 4:6).
• Note all the “you’s”: 7x the familiar “you” is
employed
Spiritual
• Jesus encourages us to pray with great
confidence in God’s sovereign goodness toward
our material needs: (1) pray simply; (2) pray
knowing that God already knows; (3) pray for
today’s needs
• Jesus encourages to spend the bulk of prayer on
unseen things: God’s kingdom, God’s will,
forgiveness, deliverance, temptation.
• Jesus models spiritual dependence: see Matthew
4:4; John 4:34
Collective
• Note all collective pronouns: our, we, and us: our
Father, our daily bread, give us, our debts, we have
forgiven, our debtors, deliver us, rescue us.
• Not once I, me, or my.
• “We pray ‘give it to us; not to me only, but to others
in common with me.’
This teaches us charity, and a
compassionate concern for the poor and needy.
It
intimates also, that we ought to pray with our
families; we and our households eat together, and
therefore ought to pray together.”
~Matthew Henry
Example #1 – Your Kingdom Come
Father, please bring your Kingdom to the Ogden
Valley, North Ogden, and beyond.
Would your
Kingdom manifest itself in the salvation of souls
and in the redemption of people.
Make me and all
of my brothers and sisters of Fellowship Bible
Church agents in the advance of this Kingdom.
Example #2 – Give us Today
Father, I know that So-and-So has some material
needs today – please provide for him/her.
And
please bless my church family so much that we
could be the ones who help him/her through this
challenging time.
Example #3 – As We have Forgiven
I pray for So-and-So.
They were wronged and are
owed an apology that is years delayed.
You have
forgiven us such enormous debts and so we forgive
the one who wronged him/her.
Would you bring
repentance to the one who did the wrong?
Would
you give my brother/sister grace to forgive even
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