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Our purpose lesson today is to learn how to pray more and more effectively.
What various hindrances we meet
In coming to a mercy seat!
Yet who that knows the worth of prayer,
But wishes to be often there?
Prayer makes the darken’d cloud withdraw,
Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw,
Gives exercise to faith and love,
Brings every blessing from above.
Restraining prayer, we cease to fight;
Prayer makes the Christian’s armour bright;
And Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.
While Moses stood with arms spread wide,
Success was found on Israel’s side;
But when through weariness they fail’d,
That moment Amalek prevail’d.
Have you no words?
Ah, think again,
Words flow apace when you complain,
And fill your fellow-creature’s ear
With the sad tale of all your care.
Were half the breath thus vainly spent
To Heaven in supplication sent,
Your cheerful song would oftener be,
“Hear what the Lord has done for me.
”—William Cowper
Introduction
For man people, including Christians, prayer is a watered-down ritual carried out with no conviction.
Why is this?
The further we get away from the Scriptures, the further we are removed from Biblical prayer and it’s power.
Then we start praying:
- Selfishly.
- Praying not wanting to offend others.
- Praying in our own will instead of God’s.
- Praying strictly according to our circumstances, not by the leading of the Spirit.
- Praying in a way that says nothing and means even less.
Jesus Christ has given us the model in which we are to follow as a pattern to keep us on track even when the rest of the world goes off the deep end.
What is the Model prayer?
Is it a prayer to be recited as it so often is just by memory, or just as a form prayer?
Note the words “after this manner… pray ye.”
In Luke’s account the disciples ask Jesus to teach them to pray, and the model is given to show them how to pray.
Not merely words to repeat.
There is Surrender
The believer’s prayer is to be surrender.
When a person genuinely says, “Father,” he is surrendering to God.
He is:
Denying self-sufficiency, and all other gods.
Surrendering himself to the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Acknowledging the Father of Jesus to be his own Father.
When we say our father we are surrendering our independence and accepting God’s family as our own.
we are assuming our responsibility in the family of God.
There is also, a surrender to the Holy name of God.
We just bow in total and abject poverty, in nothingness before the holy name.
He is swallowed up in the knowledge of the hallowedness, the sovereignty and majesty of God’s being.
god is all and the man is nothing.
He is totally dependent on God.
When a person reaches this point of surrender, then he is ready to present his needs to God.
He is ever so conscious that only God can meet his needs.
We are taught in this passage to address God as Father.
He is teaching us that about how our respect and relationship should be with God.
Like a child coming to a father asking him for help.
Not only are we to come to Him as Father, but He says, “hallowed be thy name.” that is to bring Him praise and honor.
Giving Him the praise for everything good in our lives,
There is Request
The believer is to request
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