The Lord's Way to Pray
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Do you pray the Lord’s way? The one thing about this section is it has been so ironic. Irony according to Merriam Webster “the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning” or it could mean “incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result”. An example of irony that I found online is a fire station burning down. You expect them to be able to fight it. I also found from the same website If a child runs away from a water balloon, only to fall into the pool. Another example are those who hate big corporations having a Mac computer, drinking starbucks and listening to their airpods. You would expect them to avoid those things. Also when a professional athlete has another favorite sport then the one he plays . What is ironic about this section, is that Jesus says not to use vain/rote repetitions. Yet here we have the Lord’s Prayer which is consistently repeated. They make it into vain repetition. Which we see here is not how God wants us to pray. When Jesus said after this manner, He was talking about the things prayer should consist of. The prayer is the “Model Prayer” not because of the words but the things in the prayer. God wants us to pray like this. In Luke 11, the disciples come to Jesus, and ask Him to teach them to pray. Jesus has a certain way for you to pray. He wants certain prayers to consist your prayer life.
What does your prayer life need to consist of?
Adoration- Worship
Hallowed be thy name
Hallowed- "to make, render, or declare as sacred or holy, or to mentally venerate or revere
God is worthy of our adoration and worship
Revelation 4: 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Isaiah 6: 4 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
When we pray-God the creator, God the Father, God the Savior, God our Help
It is disrespectful for a man to wear a hat during church. It is disrespectful for someone to sit during the national anthem. It is
Be reverent!
Thy kingdom come
Confession-Repentance
Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors
Notice v. 14-15. It says that forgiveness will come if we forgive those who wrong us
He is not talking about salvation, because that is not dependent
We need to pray that God will show us any sins that keep us from Him
Psalms 51:7,9Psalms 51:9-10 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow...9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
1 John 1: 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Psalm 139:23–24 “Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.”
Prayer is the time for when we get right with God, whatever sin it is, big or small
Thanksgiving-Gratitude
Not an explicit part of the Lord’s prayer but is implied
Psalm 69: 30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Philipians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 Pray without ceasing.18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Be thankful for God’s blessings, thank Him for them
Supplication-Asking
James 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Give us this day our daily bread
Deliver us from evil and lead us not into temptation
What to pray for?
Provision
Protection
Everything
God knows what we have need before ask
God prepared the heart of a baker to give George Mueller food before Mr. Mueller knew it
Limitation- Will of God
1 John 5: 14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
James 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Notice that thy will be done is before any asking