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ETS: Jesus gives the model prayer to the disciples in order to instruct them on how to address the Father.
ETS: Jesus gives the model prayer to the disciples in order to instruct them on how
to address the Father.
ESS: Jesus gave the model prayer to Christians in order to instruct them on how to address the Father.
Introduction:
address the Father.
OSS: Christians will appropriately and intentionally go to their Father in prayer
Matthew 6:9-1
Introduction:
When I was a little boy, they placed me in my Aunt Dean’s lap for the first time since I was a baby.
Sitting in Aunt Dean’s lap was very strange and weird and awkward.
Aunt Dean was a very elderly woman and she had a strange feel to me as a young boy.
She looked different to me.
She had a smell that was weird and peculiar.
So, I sat in her lap uncomfortably and I didn’t know what to say.
I didn’t know what to do.
Why was it so strange to be in Aunt Dean’s lap?
There was nothing wrong with Aunt Dean.
There was nothing wrong with Aunt Dean’s skin to make me feel strange sitting in her lap.
There was nothing wrong with Aunt Dean’s appearance for me to feel like she had a different look.
There was nothing wrong with Aunt Dean’s smell—she didn’t smell bad—for me to feel like she had a weird and peculiar smell about her.
So, why did sitting in her lap and discussing with her make me feel so uncomfortable?
Sitting in her lap and talking to her made me feel uncomfortable because she was altogether unfamiliar to me.
I hadn’t seen or heard from Dean since I was a baby—this might as well have been the first time we had met for me.
The reason that the situation with me and Dean was uncomfortable was not because of Dean’s peculiarity, but because of my unfamiliarity.
Mine and Dean’s interaction was not awkward and weird because there was something wrong with Dean; Mine and Dean’s interaction was awkward and weird because I hadn’t spoken to Dean intimately in a long time.
And this is why prayer is so distant and awkward and strange to many of us.
Interaction with God is laborious and foreign to us because we treat prayer like an interaction with Aunt Dean.
Or we treat prayer like that awkward cousin at a family reunion that we haven’t saw in a long time.
We need to understand that our awkwardness with prayer is not a problem on God’s part; it’s not that God feels weird, or that he smells strange.
The issue with our awkward prayer is us.
It is not that God is awkward; it’s that we are awkward.
The Early church flourished by dedicating themselves to prayer because Jesus entrusted them with an impossible mission – spreading the Gospel to the whole world
The Early Church had to lean and trust in prayer because they had nowhere to turn.
But so many of us want to pray but we don’t know how
There are many ways that we can pray incorrectly – Scripture gives us warnings for praying incorrectly:
1Guard your steps when you go to the house of God.
To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.
2Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth.
Therefore let your words be few.
3For a dream comes with much business, and a fool’s voice with many words.
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3You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
4You adulterous people!
Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Jesus gave the disciples warnings for praying incorrectly:
Matthew 6
5“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites.
For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others.
Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
6But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.
And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
7“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
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So, if there is all these ways to incorrectly pray, how are we supposed to pray?
It turns out that the disciples had this same question:
1Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”
1Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disci
So, Jesus gives the disciples the familiar Model prayer
Jesus was telling the disciples
Main Scripture:
9Pray then like this:
“Our Father in heaven,
We are going to dissect Matthew’s account of the Lord’s prayer and see just exactly what Jesus was telling the disciples
hallowed be your name.
10Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11Give us this day our daily bread,
12and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
- Do you know what you are saying when you recite the Lord’s prayer?
Body:
“Our Father…”
The context of the Lord’s prayer is corporate prayer
Private prayer is mandated – the elderly black lady from the War Room taught us that
This prayer was designed to be prayed together, not privately
Pray with your spouse
Pray with your kids
Pray with your friends
Pray with your Church
“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
The beginning of this prayer also signifies what the purpose of prayer is all about – a relationship with God
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Prayer is not a wish list or a personal way of getting out of trouble – it is God’s way of graciously allowing us to be intimate with Him
4Delight yourself in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
“…hallowed be your name.”
“…hallowed be your name.”
This small statement is where we are introduced to the ridiculousness of prayer.
We are being allowed to enter into the throne room of the God of the cosmos – the alpha and omega, the King of kings and Lord of lords.
If we just step back for a minute, we need to understand how gracious and merciful God is to even allow us into His presence – sinners who despised Him to the very pit of their soul.
But to further make prayer ridiculous, God doesn’t just allow us in His presence, He wants us in His presence.
But we have to just stop for a moment before we pray and have a healthy understanding of who we are talking to
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!”
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