1. Prayer that will be answered
Matthew 6:7-14, 7:6-11

2. Matthew 6:7-14, 7:6-11
And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Pray then like this: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

3. Matthew 6:7-14, 7:6-11
11 Give us this day our daily bread, 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,…

4. Matthew 6:7-14, 7:6-11
"Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. 7 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

5. Matthew 6:7-14, 7:6-11
9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

7. Authentic Prayer : Praying with Open Cards, Open Heart, Open Hands
Jesus wants His disciples to pray without hypocrisy
Authentic Prayer : Praying with Open Cards, Open Heart, Open Hands

8. 1. Open Cards (6:12, 14-15)
forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors… For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses

9. forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors…
1. Open Cards (6:12, 14-15)
forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors…
1 Peter 3:12 – the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil
Psalm 66:18 - If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened

10. 2. Open Heart (6:9-10, 33)
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

11. 2. Open Heart (6:9-10, 33)
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Authentic Prayer aligns self to God and wants to see God’s Rule affect the world

12. 2. Open Heart (6:9-10, 33)
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Authentic Prayer aligns self to God and wants to see God’s Rule affect the world
1 John 5:14 – this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

13. 2. Open Heart (6:9-10, 33)
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Authentic Prayer aligns self to God and wants to see God’s Rule affect the world
James 4:3 – You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions

14. 2. Open Heart (6:9-10, 33)
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Authentic Prayer aligns self to God and wants to see God’s Rule affect the world
Mat 6:33 – seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you

15. 3. Open Hands (6:9,11,13)
Don’t think you will be heard for your many words

16. 3. Open Hands (6:9,11,13)
Don’t think you will be heard for your many words
Pray for your needs and fears with Simple Childlike Faith (11,13)

17. 3. Open Hands (6:9,11,13)
Don’t think you will be heard for your many words
Pray for your needs and fears with Simple Childlike Faith (11,13)
We are heard because we are His children, by faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus.
John 1:12 - to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God