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How You Should Pray: Embracing The Lord's Prayer
Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 9, 2025 (message contributor)
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1. A Solid Starting Point For Effective Prayer
Contributed on Apr 9, 2025
The beginning of the Lord's Prayer is the words "Our Father in heaven." This starts our prayer with the fact that we are asking for help. How does this phrase encourage us in that direction?
- A couple opening points for the sermon series as a whole. - First, the Lord’s Prayer is a good antidote to our limited prayer life. - Many of us have prayer lives that are largely limited to asking for stuff, whether it’s for ourselves or for others. Now, that's a good thing to do, but ...read more
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2. How Can I Make God’s Name More Hallowed?
Contributed on Apr 23, 2025
A look at "hallowed be Your name" and what it means to make that a part of our prayer life.
NOT AS IT SHOULD BE: God’s name is not hallowed in this world as it should be. - Matthew 6:9. - “Hallowed” is not a word that we use a lot, so it’s probably worth taking a second to define it. - The definition of the Greek word for “hallowed” is “to separate from profane things and dedicate to ...read more
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3. What Does It Mean That Jesus’ Kingdom Is On Its Way?
Contributed on Apr 23, 2025
This sermon focuses on "Your Kingdom come" in the Lord's Prayer. What does it mean to pray for that to come about?
“YOUR KINGDOM COME": Jesus is inaugurating a kingdom. - Matthew 6:10. - So there is an important and underused word here in this part of the Lord’s Prayer: kingdom. - Let’s set the stage as we have in previous sermons. This is the Lord’s Prayer. Jesus is teaching us how to pray. He is ...read more
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4. Why Are We Praying For God’s Will If It Always Happens Anyway?
Contributed on Apr 29, 2025
Many presume that everything that happens is God's will. That's not true. What does it look like to pray that God's will would start to be done here on earth as it is done in heaven?
WHY PRAY THIS? This is a prayer because it isn’t happening much now. - Matthew 6:10. - So in this fourth part of the sermon, Jesus calls us to pray for God’s will to be done. - But, wait, isn’t that already happening all the time? We hear people constantly speak that whatever happened was God’s ...read more