Practicing the Way: Prayer Part 2

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What do I believe God wants us to know? We can petition/ask our Father for our needs
Why? We have needs that need to be met
What do I believe God wants us to do? Petition/ask our Father for our needs
Why? We have needs that need to be met
ME/WE
Have you ever had a conversation with someone you just met when your friends one of your friends walks up and says “Do you know who you are talking to?” and you say yeah this is “Jacob. I just met him” and your friend says JACOB is your good friends DREW’S brother….
You’re JACOB, I have heard so much about you. Your brother talks about you all the time
In one moment your CONVERSATION with Jacob change because your relationship changed….Jacob is no random person, he’s your good friends brother.
Maybe we had this at work when we meet Sarah and we are joking around and sort of making fun of the company when Jill says to you secretly “Sarah is your boss’s boss” and at the moment your CONVERSATION changes because of your relationship has been defined and you say “You know I was just joking about this place.”
Last one, I have been on the other side of these conversations when I am talking with someone and they are talking about this and that and dropping cuss words along the way and then they ask, “What do you do for work?” and I say I am a pastor.
it is at that moment our conversation changes based on our relationship
People start saying “sorry pastor” “sorry father” I didn’t mean to say so many cuss words!!
The TRUTH is our conversations we have with someone is grounded in the relationship we have with them. We do not talk to everyone equally.
WIFE
MOM
BEST FRIEND
RANDOM PERSON
This is one of the points Jesus wants to drive home to us in the Lord’s Prayer.
Jesus wants us to KNOW and REMEMBER who we are talking to, who we are having a conversation with.
WHAT DOES JESUS SAY? we covered this last week
Does Jesus say when you pray say
OUR SOVEREIGN KING? WE COULD
THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE? WE COULD, IT’S TRUE
DOES HE SAY FALSE THINGS
BOSS OR GENIE??
How do I treat God as a boss? Oh God I have been so good therefore you must give me ___
Or we have been bad and now I need to get good so God can hear me
Employer vs employee relationship
GENIE
If I pray this way or that way…loud or soft
NO, HE SAYS WHEN YOU PRAY, PRAY OUR FATHER
1 John 5:14–15 ESV
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
OUR DAD, OUR ABBA,
OUR
THREE PRAYERS: REVIEW
MAY YOUR NAME BE HONORED, AMONGST US
MAY YOUR KINGDOM COME, LOVE, LIFE, LIBERTY, NOT MY KINGDOM
MAY YOUR WILL BE DONE….NOT MY WILL
After that Jesus then moves to the part of the prayer we tend to practice the most.
50% Americans believers, skeptic, non-belever prays this way
What is that prayer? Focusing on our needs
Matthew 6:11 ESV
Give us this day our daily bread,
Jesus says pray, petition, ask, your Father for Him to PROVIDE TODAY for your daily bread.
What’s our daily bread? Bread for today
Your provisional needs
financial needs
food needs
relational needs
emotional needs
God’s the good gift giver
Luke 11:5–13 ESV
And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’? I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
NO REFUNDED NEEDED:
God’s gift is not like something you buy off of Amazon hoping it will work but also know if it doesn’t we can just return it
NO BAD GIFT: LIKE CANCER
Genesis 50:20 ESV
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
God doesn’t give cancer or BAD GIFTS
OUR FATHER IS GOOD GIFT GIVER
Reflect on your life
Look around you
You have friends and some a spouse
You have place to live
You had a plate to eat yesterday and plan to have a plate to eat today
HE GIVES GOOD GIFTS
OUR STRUGLE IS WE DON’T ALWAYS SEE IT
Food
job
relationships
PRAY BEFORE WE EAT IS TO THANK GOD
2. Struggle is God gives what we NEED NOT WHAT WE WANT
It is like when I was 18 I wanted new clothes and instead I received tools and I thought, why do I need that???
MY SONS WITH CANDY
3. Sometimes we miss the gift because it does not come as expected
WE PRAY FOR A SPOUSE
We prayed for finacial provision and our friend calls us up and says I have this short term job opportunity
PUT IN MY MAILBOX
The Drowning Man
A fellow was stuck on his rooftop in a flood. He was praying to God for help.
Soon a man in a rowboat came by and the fellow shouted to the man on the roof, “Jump in, I can save you.”
The stranded fellow shouted back, “No, it’s OK, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me.”
So the rowboat went on.
Then a motorboat came by. “The fellow in the motorboat shouted, “Jump in, I can save you.”
To this the stranded man said, “No thanks, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith.”
So the motorboat went on.
Then a helicopter came by and the pilot shouted down, “Grab this rope and I will lift you to safety.”
To this the stranded man again replied, “No thanks, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith.”
So the helicopter reluctantly flew away.
Soon the water rose above the rooftop and the man drowned. He went to Heaven. He finally got his chance to discuss this whole situation with God, at which point he exclaimed, “I had faith in you but you didn’t save me, you let me drown. I don’t understand why!”
To this God replied, “I sent you a rowboat and a motorboat and a helicopter, what more did you expect?”
4. STUGGLE IS THIS We don’t want daily we want monthly or yearly supply
WE WANT TO BE INDEPENDANT, GOD WANTS US TO BE DEPENDANT
5. STRUGGLE IS WE FORGET TO ASK
anybody have a need then we forget to ask God?
6. Our struggle is we SHARE OUR PRAYERS forget to pray for each other
IT DOESN’T SAY YOURS, YOU ARE INCLUDED AND SO IS THE REST OF YOUR FAMILY
WHAT ARE WE TO DO?
We need a prayer plan to ask for provision from our Abba Father
PLAN TO
PRAISE
SPEAK OR WRITE DOWN
PRAY FOR PROVISOIN
TABLE
PRAISE FOR PROVISION
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