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03/27/22
Dominant Thought: In prayer, we have communion with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Objectives:
I want my listeners to view prayer as communion with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
I want my listeners to pray for the Father’s Kingdom to advance.
I want my listeners to choose one prayer practices we’ve experienced today to try this week.
Today’s message will take place throughout the worship gathering in three parts to connect our relationship of prayer with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
In addition, we plan to dismiss the children to encore after our time of communion.
All that to say today’s gathering will feel a little different than our normal service order.
My hope is to not just talk about prayer, but to pray today.
So, we’ve intentionally woven parts of our gathering to highlight our prayer relationship with Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
As I was reflecting on prayer, Skye Jethani’s book, With, highlights prayer as communion with God.
If you look even deeper at the word, you find union in “communion.”
In prayer, we have communion with Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
First, Prayer ignites communion with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Prayer ignites communion with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as we look at the Father’s Kingdom (Luke 11.1-4).
Something, I’ve found helpful at times when I spend some time praying with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to light a candle.
Candles create an environment and have roots to the worship of the Hebrews with the lampstand in the tabernacle and the altar of incense which represented our prayers ascending to God (Luke 1.10).
[Light first candle.]
Jesus taught his disciple to pray these five types of prayers:
Father, may your name be holy.
Who we address in prayer is the key.
Jesus instructs us to pray to our Father.
In Luke 10.21-22, Jesus talks about our Father five times in two verses.
The prophet Isaiah gives us a picture of our Father, as well.
Let your Kingdom come.
Our Father is a king.
We heard that in Isaiah, “from your lofty throne.”
We pray for God’s Kingdom to come.
I was visiting one of our widows this week and I asked her about her prayer requests.
She replied, “Pray for the world situation for peace on earth.”
Another way to say it is, “Let your kingdom come.”
Pray for the nursing home facility where I live.
Ask God to help me through this day.
My friend, Fred Hansen, teaches in Europe for TCM.
In his latest ministry update, he asks for prayers for Ukraine.
He then added, “please pray for those Christians in Russia and Belarus who are also paying the price for their governments' decisions regarding Ukraine.
As citizens of heaven, we are all united under the government of Christ, and this war has the potential to cause separation, anger, and even bloodshed between brothers and sisters in Christ.
May God forbid it.”
If you have a globe, you could look at the globe and choose a country and pray, “Let your kingdom come!
Give us our daily needs.
In other words, give us the bread for today.
Forgive us our sins because we forgive all owing to us.
The word for “forgive” means to “send away.”
Lead us not into temptation.
Temptation could also be testing.
Jesus lived this out in the Garden of Gethsemane that we will read later on.
Throughout his life, Jesus addressed His prayers to the Father.
As we continue our time of worship and think about the Son committed His life to His Father, let us prepare for communion.
Some of the final words of Jesus were to His Father.
Father, into your hands I commit my spirit and then He breathed His last.
I want you to have some time to think about your relationship with your heavenly Father.
He loves you.
His love is unending.
Take a moment now as we play some music to reflect on your Father’s love for you, this church, our community, this world.
I’ll pray and then you are free to take communion when you are ready.
Let’s pray.
Father, we are not holy, but we come to you our Holy Father.
We want your reign and rule to advance.
Please give us the bread we need for today.
Forgive our sins since we forgive others their debts against us.
Lead us not into temptation.
We celebrate your love and loyalty in this meal, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Second, Prayer sustains communion with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Prayer sustains communion with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as we follow the example of Jesus on Mission (Luke 11.1-2; several examples of Jesus praying in Luke).
[Light second candle.]
Christ is represented as praying 15 times in the four gospels, 11 of which are found in Luke (Paul Butler, The Gospel of Luke, p. 3).
We will read several several of those eleven passages from Luke that show Jesus praying.
The following passages, I’d like to read with you as a responsive reading where we will take turns reading.
I’ll read the verses in white and you can read the verses in yellow/bold.
Luke 6:12 (NIV)
One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.
Luke 9:28–29 (NIV)
About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray.
As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning.
Luke 22:39–46 (NIV)
Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him.
On reaching the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.”
He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed,
“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”
An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.
And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow.
“Why are you sleeping?” he asked them.
“Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.”
As prayer sustained Christ for His mission to rescue mankind, so prayer sustains our communion with Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
I want to spend time praying for our schools.
(Show Pics of Pleasant Plains and New Berlin Schools).
Here are some of the requests I’ve received this week from children and parents to help guide our prayers for our schools.
safety
sickness unrelated to COVID is knocking kids out in larger numbers.
Pray for rejuvenation (emotional/physical/mental) across student body, faculty, and staff.
Wisdom for administration.
Schools need more bus drivers.
As we think about the mission of Christ, I want to invite Joe McCann to lead us in prayer for one of our missions, Lake Springfield Christian Assembly and pray for our offering.
Third, Prayer revives communion with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Prayer revives communion with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as we receive the Holy Spirit’s gifts (Luke 11.5-13).
[Light third candle.]
I love the story that Jesus tells about the persistent neighbor.
In Luke 11.8, Jesus says, “because of his shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.”
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