The Audacious Pal & His Inconvenienced Friend

11 June 2020 HG Study Guide: The Audacious Pal & His Inconvenienced Friend Read Luke 11:1-13 ? What can we learn from the personal pronouns in verses 1-4? ? What might be difficult for some people about relating GOD as Father? How can we help them to adopt and adapt to the term rather than avoid it? A Parable is making a Parallel - laying two things side by side to compare one with the other. ? How is GOD not like the inconvenienced friend, shut up and settled for the night? 5-8 ? How might we be like the audacious pal calling at midnight? ? What is at times more precious to the CHRISTian about the journey of asking, seeking and knocking, than when the actual answer or supply arrives? Verses 9-10 taken out of context might appear to promise that sincere prayer will get you anything! ? What is the context and how does that shape our asking, seeking & knocking? (Think of the Person we are praying to [e.g. Luke 11:1-4] and what we are like! [:13]) In verses 11-13 JESUS teaches us to ask for the HOLY SPIRIT. Now we know that HE was given to the Church at Pentecost and indwells every Christian believer. [Romans 8] So it would imply that the LORD wants us to seek more of HIM, not just asking for specific things such as our 'daily bread'. ==> Together, find a selection of prayers in the NT letters, note the richness of the content and adapt them into a time of prayer for each other. Other prayer points: Main points of the audio sermon this week: 1. FATHER-GOD is Not Like the Inconvenienced Friend: 2. Prayer Comes out of a Relationship with a Willing and Good FATHER-GOD: Don't doubt FATHER GOD's Willingness & Don't Doubt HIS Intrinsic Goodness.