28th July 5pm Service
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Heavenly Father
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Jacob imagine the disciples a 2000 years ago that I wished that I could get this book. Start I S T J's is and they've realized we don't know how. Can you tell us? And thankfully went on Dummies and we're disciples and side raises gave them a how to on praying praying for disciples. Jesus is the master. The Lord and I are his disciples Vero is to learn from the master and said I asked him Master students.
And brothers and sisters we too are on the journey following Jesus and we are disciples to and to not in this teaching we get to learn from the master. When he says how to pray well, here it is. This is how we go about it.
It's very interesting with pray because you may not be able to tell the difference between a master of prayer and an office because the pickle. The words could almost be identical.
Someone could be praying this Lord's prayer that we've just heard. And feel guilty or ashamed or faithful and actually not get much out of the prayer because they're trying to hide from God. At the master of pray I will boldly be able to come before God and pray.
Teach us to pray.
Will learn from the expert.
What is The Lord's Prayer ever have it starts with relationship?
Father God this is what Jesus had with the father and we learned from John 17 and other places that actually Jesus wants us to have a very similar sort of relationship with the father as he did. Answer this is an invitation as well just said that you know, it's not a blip on the right I wake hand, before God and Cole him father. Now if father is a terminology that throws you off into some people that is the case if that's throws you off here in this case relationship deep relationship. This is what prayer is that when we come to the father, it's not like it's going to send a link and saying number 470-6542 is here. Here's my request of filling the paperwork and just let it wait in order know I'll pray is meant to be a relationship with God. That we know him and he knows us. so it starts with Father. This is what prayer is a bath. relationship
Jesus guys on Hallowed be your name is reverence The Ten Commandments tell us of the reverence of God's name where it says don't take the lord's name in vain, but it's not then just the name of God. That's holy. The nine points to him. He is Holy Inc. Encourages us to be holy for he is holy or in Revelation. It says holy holy. Holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come
The start of the prayer talks about closeness with the father but also Holiness and reverence which they disorder spirals me on to think of Narnia weather at the end of Sinclair power-valve where they looking at. Mr. Tumnus the phone and Lucy and mr. Tumnus says of Aslan. He's not a tame lion. And Lucy says that he is good. The start of this pray we have the goodness of God drawing at relationship bottle. So the not tameness so to speak of God because he's holy.
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this indicates to us that when we pry is not to just be flippant as well though. We can be close. It's not a little Mania thing. We're doing it's a wholly revered thing when we pray.
Doesn't mean we have to be stuffy in serious in that sense. It's holy. A Discord and therefore. It's a treasure.
What comes with the Lord's Prayer is also a refocus?
your kingdom come Often when we come to pray. We're Old Hickory pickory everywhere because so many things going on with ideas and Iran competing desires, which I often tainted. And as we pray pray the Lord's Prayer, we're actually redirecting yourself to say Your Kingdom Come whatever it is is going on. Your kingdom come and I can be such like a compass actually. It's that's the point is back to what is right and good and helps us to focus our prayers when we price for this Lord's Prayer.
In my Jesus came announcing that the kingdom of God was at hand which is great news. This was the news that was being proclaimed right from the mountaintops is the best news ever. And so as we pray we continue to pray that his kingdom come more and more and that we get more and more caught up in his kingdom.
This is an interesting part this lawn in that you would not think this is a bit truncated this part of the Lord's Prayer cuz then another version it says your kingdom come your will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. That's the full full version know that Jesus said this prayer in different times and so they're both right, but that one's more full. And essentially what we're doing is we pray for the Lord's Prayer as we sign. What's at the end. We want to bring it here. How things will be? We want them here and try as we came parading through this prayer will come to say some of those things that will be in the end loan for to be. So in this case here in this place. next give us each day our daily bread this signifies reliance.
Reliance on gone that he has in hand out next meal or Annex close and in fact about if you're a true Matthew 5 to 7, you hear Jesus teaching on worry and he says don't worry about what you wear what you all right, you know that your father needs things had the birds of the field. Look at that. Look at the flowers. They've got what I need and more and even Solomon wasn't dressed as good as the inside. Trey
I'm in the Lord's Prayers in bed of this Reliance on God to bring what we need and not what we want is a difference what we need.
in the West this lawn have for many of us. Although. I must say Noto but many of us is lying is lost on us in that. Most of us have got way more than what we need. Joanne are actually actively stressing about where am I going to get my next meal? Some people do it? And if that's you who is tremendously High bed for most of the world and most of world history. This is a very live prayer and if you would have a rate of what Karen read this week's weekly news that you will say that I'm in the west we consume is well beyond what we need and this needs to change. I know this is where they fight hits the road. I guess not being over consumers and tired of the answer to the prayer that those who don't have more than 9 a part of the answer to the prayer is probably going to be at generosity.
Do you hear that are the answer to that prayer is probably going to be the West generosity.
this is where
The Lord's Prayer gets personal even more personal forgive us our sin.
Which is repentance The Lord's Prayer draws us. To actually confession and repentance and even ownership of use of resources.
We got to watch our own up when?
We're wrong. In fact, even if she or doesn't even like to do that until you can turn that she'd rather blame me this morning. I was humbled when you rode in this way clean ears your honesty a bath this reflection of where you stood and it's raining and liberating when we're actually truthful about where we are. It in a real sense. We will miss the mark and this Lord's Prayer draws us back to stop and save father.
I've let you down.
I've let you down and go on my own way. forgive us are the circles back to the start where it was real like relationship is forgiveness of our sins.
draws us back into relationship with God and also with others
The Lord's Prayer is a bat restoration to
we forgive it's so easy to carry your garage, isn't it? Well, I find it is. So easy to carry a grudge, but the Lord and his teaching is getting us to pray for strength. To actually try and fix relationships where it's possible. As we forgive those who sin against us.
Now I'm keenly aware that this is not an easy thing to do and that there are some things that happen to people that leave us questioning. How can we ever do it? I know that that's true. But I also know what is true as in the end when all things are said right when his kingdom comes. You will no longer have this burden to bare. It will be gone. Justice will be done. And all things will be set Raj.
All things will be set rod in the end. And as we pray your kingdom come we're actually asking for God's miracle to come to help what's going to be at the end they now.
Not easy. Stop fraying.
Sometimes forgiveness is giving up giving up the right to judge yourself and seek revenge.
And giving it to God for giving you give it to God and he will be the one who does. the Distributing of Justice
show me can forgive we can give it to God. And that helps in a frame. The last one and you notice I'm gone overboard with the eyes. I got it. I got the three three of them in that was all lies and I'm not well I have to keep going now, right and the last one is resist. And lead us not into temptation at or another one would say some manuscripts but Deliver Us from the evil one as well. And this last line is not that God would lead us into temptation cuz that's not what he's doing. The idea of this is more the testing in the wilderness and we know that God will give us strength to resist the test. He actually it if we lean on him he will help us to resist the evil one and all the things that God says a true.
Tell the Lord's Prayer is a great prayer and this is what he teaches his disciples so that I can know it's a bad relationship. I know it's a bad reference. I know it's about refocusing on the things of God has its Reliance on him. It's repentance its restoration and it's resisting. so no doubt, there is some novices and prayer in this room. brought if you ever wonder what should I pray? We're in a meeting of a group of disciples.
And we say let's pray and you don't know what to say. Well the best thing you could do is just practice at Brought crack this ad and pray it cuz this is prayer 101 Greg Woodside Priory 101 front. This is a 101. If you don't know what to pray pray when Jesus told you can't go wrong, and if we were in a room and 20 of us old one person fried The Lord's Prayer in the next from Pride The Lord's Prayer. you might think all that silly because we would be prayed up and focusing on the things that Jesus taught at a mines would be focused through the repetition of this prayer on him a relationship a position.
on the things that we need to forgive and the things that we need to be forgiven all of and will be taking a stand against the evil one. What a marvelous thing. What a marvellous places sets us.
So you could use this prayer as I just said if you're in a primary unit prices. And you be winning as a template just repeated. The Catholic Church says are as punishment is always to try and reconnect you back through repetition.
But I can be just as a prayer just like that straight up repetition or it could be a template. Imagine is a template that H one of those things that I've circled up. There is like a scroll and when I got to pray father I roll at the scroll. You are the old mighty one glorious, you know Heaven you have all things in your hands old Pals and oil thyroid is bad for you. I'm praying about who God is that's the first scroll the next one Hallowed be your name and you could let your the old Mighty God. You're the Holy Father you all things on Heaven and Earth around a your face if you keep going a bat gods names.
Your Kingdom Come the guy in all the things that are going to happen in heaven like old cheese being wiped away all things being restored excetera excetera, you can price those sorts of things and that's how could be like a template Did it just doesn't stay on the woods that are there but it goes a little bit longer and they like headings in a category. It can be like a strainer. And what do I mean by that why sometimes?
Smart battery should be straightened out by the Lord's Prayer, right? Cuz it's nothing like it wouldn't fit through this. Patent inside should help us to know. What is a good prayer would help me win? Tattslotto? Like well, that's actually pretty country that's given give us an Infinity braid helpful for me for all of those three things repetition a template and a strainer.
I'm very quickly going to match screw this I'm almost room at the end. Jesus makes it clear that he is away to pray. He is the way to pray. That old saying tells that story of the friend coming and knocking and being persistent in this Parable that is baldness and persistence and that's what Jesus wants us to have boldness in asking within the framework of what's good. And then persistence in asking and he goes on to talk about those things. What what father would give? A snake when they ask for a fish. What would give an egg when asked for an egg in the father would give a scorpion and God Jay-Z sign this God. The father wants to bless us. He loves us pray pray boldly. consistently and pray to the father So what I should have on the screen is The Lord's Prayer, but I don't so what I'm going to do that actually I can't get to it. I'm going to click all the way back. I'm going to try this go back to take us and use us. We trust you God, we know that you're at work in us for your world. So what a wonderful if you get tired, you shouldn't get tired of the Lord's Prayers Lots in there. But there's another one you can pray when you run out of words. Well friends, please stay and enjoy some supper together some conversation encourage one another. I remember as we go out of here that are heavenly father is good. He's not time but he's good. He loves us and he longs to hear from us. So go and pray about everything about anyting and enjoy his love. So I enjoy one another as we go ask at from this place together and see you again next week.
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