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“The School of Prayer”
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Have you ever had someone offered to teach you something, but you find out they don’t know any more than you do?
The first time I went snorkeling was with my brother-in-law, who said he knew all about snorkeling.
We bought some snorkeling gear, and went to the lake to go snorkeling.
We opened the package, and threw it away.
Took our snorkel and mask and went down to the lake; I asked him, where does this rubber strap go?
It doesn’t go anywhere it is part of the packaging.
I put my face in the water, with the snorkel in my mouth and drank half of the lake.
I go out of the water chocking and went and got the package out of the trash.
I read the instructions on the back of the package, which said connect the snorkel to the mass with the rubber strap.
I learned that day don’t ask someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing to teach you.
You want someone who knows what they’re doing to teach you something you don’t know.
When it comes to praying; nobody can teach you how to pray better than Jesus!
Most of us believe in the power of prayer.
We believe that God hears us when we pray in Jesus name.
We believe that prayer is the secret to a holy life.
At some point in our Christian walk, we have all had to admit: We don’t pray as we should, not as quickly, not as often, not as specifically, and not as confidently.
We lack the power and relief prayer can bring; so we live in fear and worry tied up in knots on the inside.
We know we need to learn to pray!
Good news, this morning Jesus, the greatest man of prayer to ever live is going to teach us how to pray.
Were told, V:1-“Jesus was praying in a certain place…
The disciples had witnessed Jesus pray in many places, and at different times.
· At the time of his baptism – Jesus prayed.
· When the crowds began to pressure him to be their earthly king – Jesus went up on the mountain alone to pray.
· When Jesus was getting ready to choose his apostles – Jesus prayed all night long.
· Jesus prayed on the Mount of Transfiguration, and the glory of God shown through his humanity.
· Jesus prayed as he cast out demons, and fed the multitudes.
The disciples began to connect the dots, they notice that the miracles, healing, preaching, power and victory in the life of Jesus, was connected to his prayer life.
The disciples understood if they wanted to see God’s power to change people’s lives through their teaching, discipleship and mission efforts, they must spend time in prayer!
The secret of a victorious, powerful life and ministry is prayer!
The disciples clearly got this; so they come to Jesus, and do the wisest thing they had ever done!
They asked Jesus, V:1-“Lord, teach us to pray”.
If you want to learn how to do something, ask someone who know how!
They know Jesus, knows how to pray; and they want this kind of prayer life for themselves.
God records Jesus lesson on prayer, so we can attend the school of prayer and learn how to pray.
As we attend the school of prayer this morning, Jesus teaches us three lessons about prayer.
Lesson #1 Jesus teaches us how to:
1. Pray Correctly.
V:2-4.
Prayer like many aspects of our walk with God, does not come naturally, it must be taught.
But for us to learn something, we must be humble enough to realize we need to learn.
The prayer that is recorded in V:2-4, is commonly called the Lord’s prayer, it is also recorded in
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This prayer is the most familiar prayer in the Bible.
Jesus isn’t telling us to memorize this prayer and pray it as a routine; instead Jesus is giving us a pattern of prayer, a model to follow as we go to God in prayer.
To pray correctly Jesus says first:
a. Praise God for Who He is.
V:2-“When you pray, say, our father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth”.
He starts off by saying, when you pray… Not if you pray…He is assuming we will pray!
This prayer has two directions; the first direction is Godward, we worship God for who he is.
We are to start our prayers spending some time praising God for who he is.
-“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name”.
We are to go to God in prayer with thanksgiving and praise in our hearts.
This verse tells us that God is:
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A loving father.
V:2-“Our father which art in heaven…
While God is a Creator of all people; God is not the father of all people.
God is father only to those who have believed in Jesus Christ and have been born into his family.
-“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name”.
You have to be born into God’s family, if God is going to be your heavenly father.
Have you been born again?
Have you received the Lord Jesus as your personal savior?
-“Because you are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father”.
Through faith in Jesus we pray to God as our father, coming to him as sons and daughters.
What a great blessing to come to the God of this universe as your father.
When you pray you are talking to your heavenly father.
He is a gracious, accessible, wonderful father.
He’s never too busy for you to come to him, climb in his lap, and share your burdens and needs with him.
When my children were small and they would come and ask me for something; like ice cream for example.
They would not say to me, "O, thou ministerial one, who doest stand in the pulpit and expound hermetical messages.
Wouldst thou consider to extricate from thine pocketbook some of thine currency and wouldst thou consider to share that currency with us that we might matriculate to Andy’s, and receive some frozen custard”.
Of course not, that would simply say, dad can I have some money for some ice cream.
You don’t need lofty, fancy words to talk to God; you come to him as a loving father.
Maybe you’re here this morning and when we talk about God being a father, it doesn’t give you any good feelings of love and acceptance.
Maybe you had an abusive father, an angry, unapproachable father.
And you find it hard to imagine a kind, loving, caring father.
Maybe you are an orphan, and you never knew your earthly father.
Fortunately we do not know God as father by looking at earthly fathers, because the best of earthly fathers disappoint.
The way we come to know God as a kind, gracious loving father is by seeing him in the word of God!
It is in the Bible that we learn that God is the perfect father, who cares for his children, who listens to us.
God is a father who understands what we need, who loves us with an everlasting love, and who always knows what is best for us.
It is on the basis of God’s love for us as our father that we come to him in prayer.
We can come to God as our father; because we have a relationship with him through Jesus Christ!
We praise him for who he is:
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A loving father
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A holy God.
V:2-“hallowed be thy name…
This phrase reminds us of the attitude we are to have toward God as we pray.
What does it mean to “hallow” God’s name?
The word “hallow” means to set apart as holy, to consider holy, to treat as holy.
God’s name, which refers to all that God is.
God’s person in God’s name is to be respected and lifted high.
When you walk in Arlington national Cemetery, there is a sense of respect, a hush that comes over your spirit; because that is hallowed ground.
You wouldn’t think of setting up a carnival on those grounds, are throwing around a football.
We are to pray to God with a sense of awe, hush, respect and reference.
Ye He is our heavenly father, but He is Holy God and worthy of our respect.
We hold God’s name in the highest regard; we must keep in mind who were talking to when we pray.
Never take God’s name in vain, never refer to God as a man upstairs; but treat God with more respect that anybody on this earth!
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