What Jesus Taught About Prayer, Part 2

Notes: What Jesus Taught About Prayer, Part 2

Harvest OC

November 2, 2014

Pastor Greg’s Sunday morning

Matthew 6

We have been looking at the life and  times of Jesus Christ in the 4 Gospels.

Greg is talking about being at the mall with a fountain with his granddaughters. He was talking about their wishes. One of his granddaughter said that a wish is a request of ourselves and a prayer is a request to God.

It was said that life without prayer is not a life with God.

He is talking about. How the "Lords Prayer" is  

Matthew 6:9-13 NKJV

[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. …

It is a model for us to pray. It is hard for many to get their minds around God being our Heavenly Father. 

John 8:19 NKJV

[19] Then they said to Him, "Where is Your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also."

God gave us an image of Him by sending Jesus Christ to us. Jesus Christ acted as God will treat us.

Jesus Christ portrays God the Father as an older man willing to lose his dignity for his son.

Running by an older man in those days was very undignified. But the father of the prodigal son, runs to greet his son.

A.C.T.S.

Adoration

Confession

Thanksgiving 

Supplication 

Hallowed be Your Name- Hallowed means to "set apart"

It was said that to set Gods name to being Hallowed is to live as a devout Christian.

1. You should be able to say at any time "come Lord Jesus Christ" if you hope to wait you need to get right with the Lord quick.

2. It is a personal request 

3. This is a request for the unsaved to know the Lord.

Isaiah 53:12 NKJV

[12] Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.

He prayed to "forgive them" over and over. Stephan prayed for the people killing him at the time he was being martyred.

He is talking about the Garden Jesus Christ was in knowing that he was about to be betrayed. 

Luke 22:42 NKJV

[42] saying, "Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done."

We must never be concerned about our unknown future in the hands of our known God

Greg is talking about the life of Job and Joseph. They didn't seem to make sense, but these were dramas unfolding in Heaven that they were a part of.

I would rather be in a storm with Jesus Christ then anywhere else without them.

Greg is talking about talking to a family before service that had just lost a child.

He said they won't give over it but they will get through it.

Matthew 6:11 NKJV

[11] Give us this day our daily bread.

He said in the first century they referenced all food as bread.

James 1:17 NKJV

[17] Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

Deuteronomy 8:18 NKJV

[18] "And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

James 4:2 NKJV

[2] You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.

Nothing is too big or small for God. We are required to ask for it. He supplies your needs not your greeds. 

Matthew 6:12 NKJV

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

2. We need to forgive those that sin against us as we need to ask them to forgive us. 

The template teaches us to ask for forgiveness on a regular basis.

Forgiven people should be forgiving people.

Hebrews 12:15 NKJV

[15] looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

Bitter people can't seem to keep it to themselves.

Greg is talking about the Hatfield and McCoy fued and all the murders that came out of it,

Bitter people have been proven by doctors that it physically ails you. Forgiveness is for the person forgiving not the forgiven. 

God has forgiven you, so don't let it stay with you.

1 Corinthians 10:13 NKJV

[13] No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

When you give into temptation there is always a way out! Sometimes the way out is as simple as a door.

Pray about it and bring it into the clear light of the Lord.

If you can't pray about it and can't ask the Lord to bless it, then you shouldn't be doing it.

Greg says this is part of the reason that he is so against the legalization of marijuana. It will not be blessed by the Lord.

The devil is not stupid he knows how to package his stuff.

Sin will take you further then you want to go, it will keep you longer than you want to stay, and it will cost you more than you want to pay.

The Lord's Prayer is not just a template for prayer but also for living as a follower of Jesus Christ.