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January 9th 2022
Series: Basics of the Faith
Sermon Title: Prayer Basics
Topic: A message on what the Bible says about how to pray and the importance of prayer in our lives.
Key Passages: Various
Sermon Blurb: Have you ever wondered how to truly pray?
What does the Bible or Jesus tell us about prayer?
In this message, we will cover the basics of prayer according to the Bible.
Sermon:
Family Moment
Hello Family Church!!!
Welcome back to week two of our sermon series called Basics of the Faith.
PAUSE
If you are new, or newer, to Family Church you probably do not know what we do EVERY January around here….so let me explain.
Every January we spend the month talking about things HEALTHY followers of Jesus do.
Because it is our goal for everyone at Family Church to be a healthy follower of Jesus.
So maybe, just maybe, you will walk away from church every week this month with some additional ideas of things you can put into practice in 2022 to become a healthier follower of Jesus.
PAUSE
This month we will be talking about Basics of the Faith.
Let me give you the trajectory for the month.
The first week we talked about Bible Basics.
What is the Bible?
How did God give us the Bible.
How do we study the Bible?
And so forth.
Last week we are going to talk about everyone’s FAVORITE thing!!! MONEY!!!
This week we talking about Prayer Basics.
What is prayer?
How did God teach us to pray?
How do we pray?
And so forth.
Next week we will talk about Serving Basics.
What is biblical serving?
How did God teach us to serve?
And so forth.
Then we will wrap this month up talking about Fasting Basics.
What is Biblical fasting.
How did God teach us to fast?
And so forth.
PAUSE
I really hope you will make it a point to be here every week and start the year off right!
I want to encourage you to try and make 2022 the year you REALLY try your best to be in church when you are home.
Let’s not let another year go by without growing closer to Jesus.
Let’s not let another year go by without becoming a more committed disciple of Jesus.
PAUSE
Let’s open up our Bibles…..that hopefully after last week you brought with you today….. to
Luke 11
New Person Bible Talk
App Talk
And let me say this….I know we put most or all the Bible verses in your outlines.
I know the verses are on the screen.
But you all need to bring YOUR Bible to church.
Yes, electronic Bibles are fine.
But we should all bring our Bibles to church; because if you do not bring your Bible to church I would be willing to bet you do not take it anywhere outside your home!
Plus, then you can be like sweet Hildred, and you can put a note in when I preach on passages, so you know when I circle back around to it!
Luke 11:1
"One day Jesus was praying in a certain place.
When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, 'Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples'"
You should know by now I love to analyze the parts of the Bible we tend to skim over.
I love helping Scripture come alive in front of our eyes.
There is a lot we can learn from this passage beyond the significance of The Lord's Prayer that follows it.
For one, we learn that just seeing Jesus in prayer is what sparked the unnamed disciples' curiosity to learn about prayer.
We also learn that John the Baptist, everyone remember John?
John the cousin of Jesus.
John the one who baptized Jesus.
John the one who was the forerunner to Jesus’ ministry.
This passage clearly shows us that John clearly taught his disciples to pray.
But isn’t it interesting that out of all the disciples only one of them asked Jesus to teach them to pray?
It sometimes seems the church is in a similar situation today regarding prayer.
We talk about prayer.
We say prayers over meals.
We study prayer.
Some of us maybe even pray at the start and end of our day.
But….. how many of us earnestly seek God and ask Him to teach us how to pray?
PAUSE
So today we are going to look to Jesus and His prayer life and see what Jesus can teach us.
We are going to look at elements of Jesus’s prayer life because I know there is something here for everyone to grow in, myself included.
So let’s begin with our first observation of Jesus’ prayer life:
How Jesus Modeled Prayer
1. Jesus modeled praying for others.
(Matthew 19: 13-15, John 17, Luke 22:32)
And you will notice below each of these sections I will give you some scripture to read later.
We cannot walk through them all today so that is a free bonus for you to read later!
Let me give you a little glimpse from those to show you this is true.
In Matthew 19:13, we read, "Then little children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them."
In John 17:9 we read, "I [Jesus] pray for them.
I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given Me, for they are Yours."
This shows us clearly that we need to think about more than just yourself when it comes to prayer.
You can use me as an example I hope most, if not all, of you pray for me.
Pray that the Lord speaks to me abundantly.
Pray that God guides me.
Pray that God protects my family and me.
Pray that I bring more unity to the church and so on.
You can pray for your fellow hunters to get that BIG buck!
Pray for THAT teacher….yes….. you students know what I mean…..
Pray for your neighbor that seems to not be feeling well.
And so on.
It is important to pray for others.
Jesus demonstrated clearly in John chapter 17, where Jesus prays for Himself, His immediate disciples, as well as for all believers.
Read it later today and you can see what I mean.
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