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*Luke 11:1-13*
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*The Importance of Prayer*
Ø How many of you play the game “How Far”
Its rules are really simple: you fill up your gas tank and then drive to see how far you can go before you have to fill up again.
You watch the gauge nervously as it falls closer and closer to the big “E”…EMPTY.
The, when you absolutely need to, you stop and fill up.
We have all played this game at one time or another, usually when we are younger.
As we get older, we get wiser and see the folly of this game.
Well, many of us still play this game only with our spiritual gas tank.
We see how far we can go without “filling up” through prayer.
v Jesus never played the “How Far” game when it came to prayer
Ø He shows us in this first verse the importance of prayer
*READ 11:1*
§ In fact, *Luke 5:16* tells us that
· /Jesus *often* withdrew to lonely places and prayed/
¨ And the first verse shows us that Jesus was again found praying
v In fact, up to this point in Luke we continually find Jesus praying
Ø He prayed at his Baptism (3:21)
Ø He prayed before he chose the twelve (6:12)
Ø We find him praying before Peter’s confession (9:18)
Ø He was in prayer when he was transfigured (9:29)
v When we realize how often Jesus prayed
Ø How much he relied on God the Father for strength, for guidance, for wisdom, for insight…
§ That should cause us to realize the importance of prayer
· And how much more we should be on our knees!
v We can think about it another way…
Ø If Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit before he was born…
Ø If Jesus actually lives a sinless life and thus had no sin barrier between he and God…
Ø If Jesus was the son of God…
§ God incarnate
Ø If Jesus was the second person of the trinity…
§ And he realized the importance of prayer…
· How much more important ought prayer to be to us who do not have these advantages!
v I think for many of us, we get caught up in the formality of prayer
Ø We think that the right words must be said
Ø We think that the right mood must be set
Ø We get so caught up in the length of our prayers
§ That the longer the prayer, the more effective
· But we forget….
¨ DEPTH, not length, is important
When the Gettysburg battleground became a national cemetery, Edward Everett was to give the dedication speech and Abraham Lincoln was asked to say "a few appropriate words."
Everett spoke eloquently for one hour and fifty-seven minutes then took his seat as the crowd roared its enthusiastic approval.
Then Lincoln stood to his feet, slipped on his steel spectacles, and began what we know today as the "Gettysburg Address."
Poignant words such as". . .
The world will little note nor long remember. .
." were said.
Suddenly, he was finished.
No more than two minutes after he had begun he stopped.
His talk had been so prayerlike it seemed almost inappropriate to applaud.
/As /Lincoln sat back down, John Young of the /Philadelphia Press /whispered, "Is that all?"
The President answered, "Yes, that's all."
Don't underestimate two minutes with God in prayer.
v The disciples saw Jesus and understood the importance of prayer
Ø So they asked him to teach them how they should pray
§ And so he did
· Not a repeatable prayer…
¨ But the substance of prayer
*READ 11:2-4*
*The Substance of Prayer*
v Here Jesus teaches them (and us) what elements should exist in prayer
Ø There is nothing inherently wrong about repeating the Lord’s prayer
§ But there is a danger
· Danger that it becomes rote and not heartfelt
¨ A danger that is becomes too familiar
People travel days to come to this island.
To see its beauty.
To witness the high mountains next to the deep ocean.
To view the rugged, rocky, pine tree-lined coastline next to the crashing waves.
We who live here hardly notice the beauty which surrounds us.
That is because we are around it all the time.
We get used to it.
It has become common, familiar.
We do not see the beauty of it anymore.
v That is what often happens with the Lord’s prayer
Ø We no longer see the beauty in it
§ We so often past through it like we pass through Seawall
· Withou noticing it at all
¨ We have let it become rote or unconsciously repetitions (Matt 6:7)
Ø The only thing God wants us to become unconsciously repetitious about is holiness
§ “Do not let left hand know what right hand is doing”
Ø But not so with prayer
§ Jesus wants us to know what we are praying about
· So he gives his disciples (and us) the elements that are to be contained in our prayers
§ Father
· Abba = “reverent daddy”
¨ Close intimate relationship
Ø *Romans 8:15*
§ /For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.
And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”/
· We are to approach God as a son approaches his father
§ Hallowed be your name
· Everyone’s name means something
¨ Examples
Ø Blake = “pale”
Ø Donald = “Ruler of the World”
Ø Bernie = “Brave, Hardy”
Ø Mary = “Wished for Child”
§ Also “Rebelliousness” and “Sea of bitterness”
Ø Pat = “Noble”
Ø Sarah = “Princess”
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