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Where have you guys learned how to pray?
Have you ever considered or asked yourself if you are praying correctly?
How should we pray?
Lets take a look.
Does this mean that we should not pray in public?
Should we only pray in private?
I love this verse because many times when someone prays all these fancy ways I feel like I have no idea what Im doing.
Q: What do you understand from this verse?
This is telling us that even when we do not know how to pray or what to pray for, the Spirit, which is the Holy Spirit that lives in each of us.
He interceeds for us.
What that means is that the Holy Spirit translates things that we cannot entirely put into words.
This means that often we do not know exactly what to pray for and how to pray and that's completely ok.
But that is not to say that there arent more appropriate ways to pray.
This happened in one scene where one of the disciples asked Jesus “Lord teach us how to pray”.
Lets look at that
Father hallowed be your name.
To dedicate to holiness, to consecrate, to honor, revere etc
Jesus specifies that prayer should start with us recognizing who God is first and foremost.
This sets the scene for the prayer.
You are God and I am not.
This is the reverence that we should approach God with when in prayer.
Do not approach the throne in an unworthy manner.
Back to the passage
Your Kingdom Come
The first priority is to recognize God for who He is.
Second priority is to fulfill God’s purpose.
The disciples had a very clear understanding of the Old Testament
So the apostles were waiting for the messiah to establish God’s kingdom, they believed this because the Old Testament was clear in this, the Pharisees believed the same.
God’s promise to David
Additionally in Isaiah
We are here to advance God’s kingdom.
That priority is above your own personal needs or wants, above the local churches needs to wants.
They qualifier is that when God’s kingdom is closer, all those who worship Him benefit greatly and those who do not suffer for it so in a roundabout way our needs and wants get met through it.
Q: What does implications does God’s Kingdom approaching mean for us?
We are closer to being with God,
He is closer to judging evil
Back to the passage
Give us our daily bread
Now that we have the first priority of acknowledging God and prioritizing His will and His kingdom.
This is where the petition comes in.
“Give us today our daily bread.”
No request is too big or too small for God, but examine the motives behind whatever you ask Him for.
Jesus knows that when you pray, you often focus on the things you want from God.
He started out by focusing on God's will, and now he encourages you to think about what you really need from God today.
“Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”
Forgiveness was at the heart of Jesus’ teaching during His time on earth, and so we find it here at the heart of His guide to prayer.
Jesus first stresses your need to focus on asking forgiveness for anything you have done that displeases God.
Second, He reminds you to search your heart for any unforgiveness you might feel toward another person and ask Him to help you release them from that debt.
The debt could be something someone literally took from you; more often it will be some way in which you feel someone has hurt you.
“Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”
Finally, Jesus closes His prayer by encouraging us to keep in mind that the Christian life is a spiritual battle and we have a very real enemy.
The fact that Jesus closes His prayer this way feels like a reminder about how natural and tempting humans find it to stray from God’s protection.
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