1. Let’s Review… Prayer is… A partnership with God
Working with God to accomplish His purposes
Established by God as a law of the universe

2. Let’s Review… Prayer requires Prayer is essential for
Biblical knowledge
Persevering faith
Prayer is essential for
Ministry effort
Social justice

3. So…how do we pray?

4. Matthew 6:9-13 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.

5. Give us this day our daily bread
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

6. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil
And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]’”
New American Standard Bible : 1995 Update. LaHabra, CA : The Lockman Foundation, 1995

7. First, we must un-learn Don’t be “skype-guy”
Personal prayer is not for show
Personal prayer is private and intimate

8. First, we must un-learn Don’t be a pagan Don’t be a babbler
Personal prayer is not an incantation
Personal prayer is not mindless repetition

9. Pray…in this way… It is a manner of praying
Not to be mindlessly recited (verse 7…hello???)
It is to be thoughtfully understood and applied

10. The use of these words as a mindless incantation borders on pagan mysticism.

11. An upward look
Who we pray to…Father
Authority
Respect
Intimacy
Love

12. An upward look “Who is in heaven” His supremacy His separateness
His sovereignty

13. An upward look “Hallowed be Your name” Reverence for God’s holiness
Desire to honor to God’s holiness

14. “We should not miss the balance in this opening to the prayer
“We should not miss the balance in this opening to the prayer. We address God intimately as ‘Father’…

15. …but we immediately recognize His infinite greatness…express[ing] an aspiration that He…will be seen as holy.” (Morris, pp )

16. An upward look “Your kingdom come” God’s rule and reign
Submission to Jesus as King
Evangelistic…sinners
Eschatological…victory over spiritual forces of darkness

17. An upward look “Your will be done”
Must be connected to King and Kingdom
Request of submission
God’s will, my life, His eternal purposes

18. Let’s Pray… Be mindfully personal Remember who Remember what Father
King
Remember what
His glory
His purposes