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This Is How We Do It
Tonight I am going to have a lot of biblical text for you because this section is deep and plays such an important role in our relationship with God.
As I have been thinking on this text and it’s implications for us this week God’s been impressing on me the importance of prayer for us specifically.
My goal tonight is that you would have a better understanding of prayer and confidence and desire to go out and pray and slay on a daily basis.
prayer as act of righteousness - communing with the Father for the purpose of fulfilling His mission, as an individual and as a community.
Notice this prayer is explained after a person has become a believer.
It is assumed the person has come to faith and in relationship with God before they pray.
We can’t properly pray until we have been saved and God’s Spirit resides inside of us.
; faith is an integral ingredient for prayer.
faith is an integral ingredient for prayer.
faith is an integral ingredient for prayer.
faith is necessary for communicating with God, not just any faith but a specific faith in a specific person.
One needs to have faith in the one true God who has created and saved them, and it is a submissive repentant faith.
Faith is necessary for communicating with God, not just any faith but a specific faith in a specific person.
One needs to have faith in the one true God who has created and saved them, and it is a submissive repentant faith.
Not Like This
v5 not to be seen by for purpose of looking good, but to glorify God.
pharisee vs the tax collector
How we hinder our prayers:
1 Selfish Motives -
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2 Ignoring God’s instruction -
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3 Hard hearts toward others -
4 Active sin -
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5 Doubt -
Why Pray?
to commune with our Father
v6 pray to Father in secret
secret - Garden Psalm 73
publicly - ; Jesus prayed out loud for the sake of those who heard
2 kings Elijah prayed for rain stop and for fire to fall - to reveal God’s power
v8 pivotal point, since the Father knows what you need before you ask Him pray like this…….
This Way Not These Words
6:7-15
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He is Father - what does that say about me?
The hope in that address, I go to him as His child.
Starts with relationship, not just personal but acknowledging I belong to a community/kingdom.
His name being glorified is the focus first and foremost not us.
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His kingdom His mission
The term for “will” is thelema, which can indicate God’s purpose (e.g., ) and desire (e.g., ).
But as here, the term can express God’s will of command, as in the psalmist’s exclamation, “I desire to do your will; your law is within my heart” ().
Wilkins, M. J. (2004).
Matthew (p.
277).
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.
His will be done here, bring heaven to earth.
Also it’s understood that I am part of the how, the answer to that prayer acts 2 & 4.
So I pray for this to happen while intending to be part of the answer.
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exodus 16 God provided manna daily, and they were ordered only to collect enough for one day.
Their focus on provision from God was to be in the here and now, and not worry about the future.
This built trust.
Matthew
Phil 4:6-8
provide what I need, not what I want.
( Jesus food was to do God’s will, after feeding the five thousand I am the bread of life. )
God will always answer your prayer but his answer is not always what you ask for, but what you need.
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debt = aramaic idiom sin
if I truly understand the mercy I have been given I will extend it.
parable of wicked servant
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My desire is to maintain intimacy with God rather than to be led astray
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Since God is not one who tempts his people to do evil (), and the word rendered “temptation” (peirasmos) can be used for either temptation or testing (cf.
; ), this petition indicates that the disciples should pray either for relief from testing (; ; ) or for their testing not to become an occasion for temptation.
Wilkins, M. J. (2004).
Matthew (p.
279).
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.
Wilkins, M. J. (2004).
Matthew (p.
279).
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.
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forgiving others is evidence we have truly been forgiven ourselves and have the Spirit residing within us.
As Son
persistence and identity, praying as a son
empowered -
Why do we stop?
We don’t believe He’s listening/cares, We don’t believe we are who He says we are.
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