HOW TO PRAY THE LORD'S PRAYER (2 OF 5)
by Bob Ingle
Scripture: Matthew 6:9-13
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How To Pray the Lord's Prayer (2 of 5)
Series: Teach Us to Pray
Bob Ingle
Matthew 6:9-13
Open Bibles to Matthew 6. This is kind of part two of the Lord's Prayer. If you missed last week, I encourage you to go to our website and watch it. Today I want to talk about 'How To Pray the Lord's Prayer'. You say, ''Well, that easy. Just memorize it, and say it. Boom. Sermon over. Let's go eat.'' Well, people do pray the Lord's Prayer like that. I remember in high school baseball and four years of college baseball we always, before every game as a team, got down on one knee took off our hats and recited the Lord's Prayer together. When we would say amen, invariably someone would say, 'Now let's go kill'em.'
I want to suggest to you that there is more to praying the Lord's Prayer than just memorizing the words and reciting them. Jesus never told us to pray this prayer. He said when you pray, pray like this. This is the model/pattern for prayer. These are the components or the categories or the guideposts to prayer. Jesus was saying, ''When you pray to your Father in Heaven these are the things that your prayers should be soaked and saturated with. This is what you need to be talking to God about.'' When you struggle with knowing what to pray it's because you have gone away from praying Jesus' way and you've gone into praying your way. You will not struggle knowing what to pray or how to pray if you will understand what the Lord's Prayer is all about. It's very simple and straightforward. The question isn't will we understand it, but will we do it.
Now, before we get to the Lord's Prayer, let me give you a few ways not to pray ok? Here are some ways we shouldn't use prayer. Don't use prayer like...
A MAGIC TRICK.
For some, ''In Jesus Name'' is just another way of saying 'Abracadabra'. People who treat prayer like magic often get mad and bitter and give up on prayer. ''Well, I prayed and prayed and prayed, and God never answered. So I just stopped.'' May ...
Series: Teach Us to Pray
Bob Ingle
Matthew 6:9-13
Open Bibles to Matthew 6. This is kind of part two of the Lord's Prayer. If you missed last week, I encourage you to go to our website and watch it. Today I want to talk about 'How To Pray the Lord's Prayer'. You say, ''Well, that easy. Just memorize it, and say it. Boom. Sermon over. Let's go eat.'' Well, people do pray the Lord's Prayer like that. I remember in high school baseball and four years of college baseball we always, before every game as a team, got down on one knee took off our hats and recited the Lord's Prayer together. When we would say amen, invariably someone would say, 'Now let's go kill'em.'
I want to suggest to you that there is more to praying the Lord's Prayer than just memorizing the words and reciting them. Jesus never told us to pray this prayer. He said when you pray, pray like this. This is the model/pattern for prayer. These are the components or the categories or the guideposts to prayer. Jesus was saying, ''When you pray to your Father in Heaven these are the things that your prayers should be soaked and saturated with. This is what you need to be talking to God about.'' When you struggle with knowing what to pray it's because you have gone away from praying Jesus' way and you've gone into praying your way. You will not struggle knowing what to pray or how to pray if you will understand what the Lord's Prayer is all about. It's very simple and straightforward. The question isn't will we understand it, but will we do it.
Now, before we get to the Lord's Prayer, let me give you a few ways not to pray ok? Here are some ways we shouldn't use prayer. Don't use prayer like...
A MAGIC TRICK.
For some, ''In Jesus Name'' is just another way of saying 'Abracadabra'. People who treat prayer like magic often get mad and bitter and give up on prayer. ''Well, I prayed and prayed and prayed, and God never answered. So I just stopped.'' May ...
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