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How You Can Live The Lord's Prayer
Contributed by Johnathan Hester on Jun 13, 2008 (message contributor)
Summary: Through meditating ,The Holy Spirit Has Revealed too Me That ,,,,,{amen} The Lord’s Prayer is much more than just a model of how best to pray. It’s a statement of how to get to know God’s heart. And when you live out those words, God will transform you
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How You Can Live the Lord’s Prayer
Through meditating ,The Holy Spirit Has Revealed too Me That ,,,,,{amen}
The Lord’s Prayer is much more than just a model of how best to pray. It’s a statement of how to get to know God’s heart. And when you live out those words, God will transform you completely. {amen}
Here,,, Here’s how you can live the Lord’s Prayer:-----{let them say it in concert}
Our:
Realizing that the journey to a deeper walk with God can only be fully lived in
the company of God’s people. Faith is not an individual pursuit; it’s meant to be pursued within the context of community {amen} Ahh,,, Ahhh Whenever you abandon the body of Christ, you’re abandoning yourself. You can’t grow in grace by withdrawing from others. Therefore Commit to long-term relationships with people. When you face a difficulty in any of your relationships, don’t simply run or battle it out with the other person. Instead, resolve the issue and reconcile. Focus on people over productivity and on relationships over results. Instead of looking at people in terms of what they can do for you, seek to simply get to know them and love them.{amen} Don’t place people in categories and distinguish between them. Ask God to help you view all people as He sees them ,,, equally valuable because they’re all made in His image {amen} and to treat everyone with respect and kindness. Remember that you can’t truly love God if you don’t love your brothers and sisters in Christ. Don’t let anything divide the unity God wants you to have. Remain committed to each other, living in grace and forgiveness, just as God remains committed to you.
Father:
Experience true love and security from your ultimate Father: God. Remember the Gospel’s promise of freedom. Don’t slip into a lifestyle of worrying about duties, obligations, rules, regulations, expectations, and demands when God wants you live freely. Instead of trying to live faithfully just because you’d feel guilty if you didn’t, let your love for God and your gratitude for His grace motivate you to live faithfully. Rather than letting fear guide your decisions, make decisions with the confidence that God will love you no matter what and will always be there to help you.
In the heavens:
Developing a cosmic perspective of God will nurture your faith and give you the hope you’ll need to get through challenging circumstances. Recognize that the spiritual realm you can’t see is just as much of a reality as the material world you can see. Just beyond what’s visible lies a supernatural dimension that often intersects with the natural world in which you live. God transcends your human limitations, and He is present in all dimensions. God is as close to you as your next breath, yet as far-reaching as the most distant areas of the universe. Ask God to help you become fully aware of His constant presence with you, and of the work He is doing in the world around you. Change your lifestyle so you’re not regularly distracted from noticing God at work. Learn how to be still, focus, wait, and listen.
Hallowed be your name:
Seek to honor God by the way you live. Do more than just say words of adoration about Him. Surrender every part of your life to Him and do your best to obey what He calls you to do. Ask God to help you become aware of your own sinfulness. Acknowledge your failures, confess your sins, and repent. Then pursue holiness. Aim for higher standards – God’s standards. Let the knowledge of your sin show you how much you need God’s grace and motivate you to draw closer to Him. Acknowledge that it’s God’s holiness that enables you to be fulfilled. His holiness empowers you to see the shortsightedness of secularism, the poverty of profanity, and the futility of immorality. As you hallow God’s name, He confronts everything destructive and poisonous within you. Never allow yourself to become complacent; keep pursuing more holiness every day of your life.
Your kingdom come:
Participate in God’s kingdom rather than retreating into your own. Invite God not to partner with your life, but to come and rule your life. Let go of your own agenda and pursue God’s plans for you, trusting that the One who created you knows what’s best for you. Surrender your values to embrace God’s values, submit your will to His, and cede your ambition in favor of God’s purposes. Ask God to humble you so you can know Him better. Realize that you can’t build your private empire and God’s eternal kingdom at the same time. So hold loosely to your own achievements and allegiances. Remember that you don’t work for yourself or by yourself; you serve God as He works through you.