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May 2, 2021

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Graduations

December 13, 2020

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Michelle Mack's Mother's passing: Ms. Mary Ann Montgomery

Anita's Father Absent from Body - Elder Leroy Sampson

Prayer for Marvin Anita Johnson Family - A Job Moment - Covid, Death, etc

Benita McBride - The passing of her sister in law Ms.

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Christmas Food and Toy Drive - Dec 22

"...And When You Pray"

And Forgive Us As We Forgive

Matthew 6:14 & 15

Matthew 6:9-13

9 In this manner, therefore, pray:

Our Father in heaven,

Hallowed be Your name.

10 Your kingdom come.

Your will be done

On earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts,

As we forgive our debtors.

13 And do not lead us into temptation,

But deliver us from the evil one.

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.

Amen.

Matthew 6:14 & 15

14 "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

START Here:

GM GP

This morning I'm excited about returning to finishing some unfinished business that we embarked on in 2020.

That unfinished business is the business of finishing our Prayer Series entitled "...And When You Pray" - a verse by walk through of the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6.

The last installment of this series was engaged in back in mid-December.

So many things were happening at the time - including a number of funerals, the National Convention, and Christmas --until before you knew, it was the New Year 2021.

Then in January, I hit the "Super Pause Button" to share with GP some things the Lord had put in my heart about TRUTH.

Although that message was to be a Part 1 and Part 2, it ended up being a long running series that lasted several months.

Needless to say, we have some unfinished business to take care of in the way of returning to and completing our series on prayer.

In that series, we stopped in the middle of teaching on "forgiveness" at verse 12 of Matthew Chapter 6 which reads:

12 And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.

That installment was entitled: "And Forgive Us As We Forgive"

For good measure, I'm going to read the entire text basis for this series which is the Lord's Prayer also known as the Model Prayer.

After which, I'm going to use today's teaching time as a time to refresh everyone's memory on insights we have learned about this prayer, while catching up those who have not been with us since the series began.

No matter whether you've been with us throughout the series or you're just joining us, today is a good time for everyone because it sets us up for a teaching on forgiveness that's certain to be blessing to you.

It's shaping up to be a powerful and liberating teaching.

In fact, I want you to submit questions you have about the topic of "forgiveness" by way of the chat box or by email or text, or during the after church chat, or call me.

You can submit questions like: "Is forgive and forget biblical?"

"How can I forgive what I can't forget?", and "Is there anything or anyone God won't forgive? . . .

With that in mind, let's read our main text for today and do a catch up overview of where we've been thus far - then look forward to next week's fresh start teaching on "forgiveness".

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Matthew 6:9-13

9 In this manner, therefore, pray:

Our Father in heaven,

Hallowed be Your name.

10 Your kingdom come.

Your will be done

On earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts,

As we forgive our debtors.

13 And do not lead us into temptation,

But deliver us from the evil one.

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.

Amen.

Matthew 6:14 & 15

14 "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Now, let's look at where the Lord's Prayer has taken us since we last engaged it.

How much of what we covered did you retain or capture in your notes?

Let's begin:

Actually, our series started in the Book of Matthew, Chapter 5 where Jesus was having a conversation with His new followers about the proper way to live and do as Children of God - as opposed to living and doing as the legalistic Pharisees, the hypocrites and the heathens.

Jesus's series was entitled "The Sermon on the Mount".

It covered topics such as The Beatitudes, The Similitudes - Believers are Salt and Light; Things addressed in the Law including Murder, Adultery, Divorce, Oaths, Retaliation, Love, Charitable Deeds, Prayer, Fasting, Wealth and a lot more.

Our series began at the point Jesus was teaching His followers on how to give and how to do charitable deeds.

In short, He said to them, "Don't do your charitable deeds in public to be seen, rather do them in secrete - be so secretive about it until "your right hand never knows what your left hand is even doing".

From that teaching, Jesus moved to teaching on "Prayer".

That's where we saw Him [again] lambast the Pharisees, the hypocrites and the heathens for their improper conduct.

He chided them for their hypocritical ways of loving to pray -- standing in the synagogue and praying on street corners all to be seen by men.

He condemned the heathens for praying to God as if He were an idol.

They used an overabundance of words and vain repetitions and chants thinking this is what it took to get Him to respond to their prayers.

We learned that both the Pharisees and the heathens were on the wrong path when it came to praying.

That's when the Lord introduced to His followers the proper way to pray.

He said explicitly, "Do not pray like the hypocrites, but when you pray, do four things:

[SLIDE]

Proper Way to Pray

1. go into your room, v.6

2. shut your door, v.6

3. pray to your Father in private v.6

4. do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do.

V.7

Upon the condition of doing these four things, four more positive things would result which we called Prayer Realizations . . .

they are:

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Four Results of Proper Praying

1.

Your Father [will] see in secret v.6

2.

He will reward you openly v.6

3.

Your Heavenly Father isn't interested in the number of words prayed, rather He wants to hear the words of your heart.

The number of words won't get you heard or rewarded v.7