Scripture: Luke 11:1-4; Matt 6:9b-13

Recap:

Part 1: Godward Prayer

• Sanctity of God's Name
• Advancement of God's Kingdom
• Fulfilment of God's Will

Part 2: Manward Prayer

• Man's Needs
• Man's Petition
• Man's Response

1. Petition 1: Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

A. Give us

• Acknowledge we’re a needy people
• Adopt humble posture before God to supplicate

B. This day

• Denotes currency of prayer
• Focuses on day-to-day living

C. Our daily bread

• Context: daily bread = provision of physical needs
• Coverage: health & appetite, i.e. nourishment

1 Tim 4:4-5; Pro 30:8-9; 1 Tim 6:8

Petition 2: Forgive Us Our Debts As We Forgive Our Debtors

Matt 18:35

“NOT seven times, but seventy-seven times [seventy times seven].” (Mt 18:22, NIV, [RSV])

Gen 4:24 (RSV); Mic 7:18; Jon 4:2; Matt 6:14-15; Eph 4:32; Luke 7:36-50 (RSV)

Petition 3: Lead Us Not Into Temptations

Jas 1:13; Gen 3:12;

Our Responsibility towards Temptation

• Avoid people and places that entice us to sin (Ps 19:13; 1 Th 5:22)
• Resist the Tempter (Song 2:15, NLT)
• Go to God for grace swiftly and submissively (Phi 2:13, NLT)

Petition 4: Deliver Us From the Evil One

Nature of Requests for Supply of Need

• Providing grace (give us)
• Pardoning grace (forgive us)
• Preventing grace (lead us not to temptation)
• Preserving grace (deliver us)

Eph 6:18; Rom 8:13; Col 3:5; Jn 17:15; 1 Cor 10:13, NLT

Doxology: For Yours is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory Forever. Amen.

Eph 1:3; Phi 4:6; Col 4:2, KJV; Ps 72:19