Matthew: Praying with Jesus

Listen in as we look at Matthew 6:5-15 and see how Jesus invites us to pray personally, powerfully, and practically.

Sermon Notes/Quotes:

 

Matthew 6:5-14

Luke 11:1

Perhaps they could see that Jesus’ ministry emerged out of his relationship with his Father. - Darrell Johnson

Today’s approach to prayer:
Guilt - You don’t pray enough
Shame - You don’t pray right
Pragmatic - You can master it

“God could complain about us a great deal more than we about Him. We complain that He does not make Himself present to us for the few minutes we reserve fro Him, but what about the twenty-three and a half hours during which God may be knocking at our door and we answer ‘I am busy, I am sorry’ or when we do not answer at all because we do not even hear the knock at the door of our heart, of our minds, of our conscience, of our life. So there is a situation in which we have no right to complain of the absence of God, because we are a great deal more absent than He ever is. - Anthony Bloom

“The Lord’s Prayer stretches from the Father at the beginning to the devil at the end, from heaven to hell, and in between in six brief petitions everything important in life.” Dale Bruner

“Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption.” Timothy Keller

We come to prayer, aware of urgent needs, or at least wants. It’s tempting to race through the Lord’s Prayer, as far as ‘on earth as it is in heaven’, so that we can then take a deep breath and say ‘Now look here: when it comes to daily bread, there are some things I simply must have. And then off we go into a shopping list. To do this, of course, is to let greed get in the way of grace. NT Wright

Deut 8:1-3

“Every time we take bread in our hands we are handling answered prayer” Darrell Johnson

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