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Introduction
How do you pray?
What do you pray?
How should you pray?
Every week we recite the Lord’s Prayer as a beautiful part of our worship.
We use the passage from .
It has become known as the model prayer.
In Luke’s Gospel in chapter 11, we learn that the disciples had watched Jesus.
He follows with a prayer similar to what we have in our text today.
Matthew
The Model Prayer we have from Jesus both commands and teaches us how to pray.
There are 6 petitions in this prayer, 3 of which concern God’s holiness and purposes; the other 3 contain personal requests.
Both are valid, but there is precedence given to God’s honor and kingdom!
Reflect Upon His Grace
We can pray to God in a personal way.
First and foremost, Jesus instructed in this teaching to call God Our Father.
Mali
It is because of His grace that we are able to call God Our Father.
Romans 8:15
Galatians
God has instilled in us through Christ the opportunity to be adopted as sons and daughters.
Ephesians
Jesus teaches us here that we are to address God in our prayer as Father.
This is available to us that by reflecting on His grace.
Secondly, we learn in this prayer that we must relinquish control.
Recognize His Presence
The phrase “Hallowed by Your Name” represents a sense of holiness, sacredness, and to consecrate.
We are to Praise God for who He is!
Psalm
Are you able to praise Him when you pray?
Jesus used the word “Hallowed” to attribute praise to His Father.
Next we notice that Jesus teaches us to relinquish control.
Relinquish Control
“Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
“Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
We we pray this we are giving up our desires and aligning our pattern of thought of God the Father.
I sometimes think that we pray for a test to be passed, a job to be given, or even the lottery to be one.
I remember praying once in my early days of ministry for God to give me a bass boat so I could take teenagers fishing and witness to them in the lake while we were fishing.
Why do you think I never got that bass boat?
How do you know the will of God?
When we are saved and allow Christ into our lives, God works in us to cause us to WANT to do His will and to enable us to do His will.
Philippians
From Genesis to Revelation we can see that God always takes the initiative to come to His people.
Without Him, we would all go our own way.
Romans
We must relinquish control and conform our will to that of our Father in Heaven.
Our priority must become His priority!
Matthew
When we do so, we can also rely on His provision.
Rely on His Provision
“Give us this day, our daily bread.”
King Solomon wrote of this concept.
Proverbs 30:
What would happen if we prayed this prayer and meant it?
I don’t think this means for us to sit back and wait for every meal to magically appear.
God gives us talents and abilities to work and produce.
I believe this passage reminds us that of the assurance that God will provide our daily needs.
Luke’s version adds
Luke
Are you asking for your daily needs to be met or you asking for a lifestyle of the rich and famous?
Next, we see a petition of reconciliation.
Reconcile and Be Reconciled
“Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.”
We are called to reconcile and be reconciled.
2 Corinthians 5:
You have heard me say over and over again, “Lord help us to love as we have been loved and forgive as we have been forgiven.”
Are you able to do that?
The last verses of the text we read earlier have some strong thoughts about this:
Matthew 6:
See, we can chose to forgive and be forgiven, or not forgive and not be forgiven.
Colossians 3
We can be reconciled and we can reconcile.
This model prayer also teaches us to reorder our steps.
Reorder your steps
“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”
This is a request for protection.
A request if you will, to change our course in a way that we are prevented from falling into snares and traps that will cause us to turn from God.
We have to remember that God does not tempt us:
This has been called spiritual LSD: Lust, sin death.
God does not desire that for us.
This is one of the many reasons Jesus showed us how to pray, “and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”
We conclude this prayer with a phrase that says “For Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
Amen.”
Notice that phrase is not in our text.
Scholars show that this was added to the form of a concluding doxology that was modelled after :
Do you realize what you are saying when you pray that prayer?
Lord, I praise YOU for Your SOVEREIGNTY.
“Yours is the Kingdom...”
Lord, I praise YOU for Your AUTHORITY.
“…and the power...”
Lord, I praise YOU for Your MAJESTY.
“…and the glory…”
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Lord, I praise YOU for Your ETERNALITY.
“…forever...”
I want to encourage you this week to think of the Lord’s Prayer and begin to model your own prayers the same way!
Pray daily using this model and ask God to show you what to do next!
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