Lord, Teach Us to Pray

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Lord, Teach Us to Pray

• Desiring Close Relationship With God
• Matt.68-13

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Jesus Example

• Impressed the disciples with the power of prayer
• Impressed the disciples with the need of prayer

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The Model Prayer

• Not something to merely learn to quote
• Not a magical formula for troubled moments

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The Model Prayer is a Starter

• Matt 69-15
• 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.

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The Model Prayer is a Starter

• Matt 69-15
• 9 In this manner, therefore, pray
• Our Father in heaven, RELATIONSHIP
• 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.

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The Model Prayer is a Starter

• Matt 69-15
• 9 In this manner, therefore, pray
• Our Father in heaven, RELATIONSHIP
• Hallowed be Your name. REVERENCE
  AWE
• 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.

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The Model Prayer is a Starter

• Matt 69-15
• 9 In this manner, therefore, pray
• Our Father in heaven, RELATIONSHIP
• Hallowed be Your name. REVERENCE
  AWE
• 10 Your kingdom come. GODS WILL ABOVE ALL
• 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.

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The Model Prayer is a Starter

• Matt 69-15
• 9 In this manner, therefore, pray
• Our Father in heaven, RELATIONSHIP
• Hallowed be Your name. REVERENCE
  AWE
• 10 Your kingdom come. GODS WILL ABOVE ALL
• Your will be done
• On earth as it is in heaven.
• 11 Give us this day our daily bread. DAILY
  PHYSICAL NEEDS
• 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.

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The Model Prayer is a Starter

• Matt 69-15
• 9 In this manner, therefore, pray
• Our Father in heaven, RELATIONSHIP
• Hallowed be Your name. REVERENCE
  AWE
• 10 Your kingdom come. GODS WILL ABOVE ALL
• Your will be done
• On earth as it is in heaven.
• 11 Give us this day our daily bread. DAILY
  PHYSICAL NEEDS
• 12 And forgive us our debts, DAILY SPIRITUAL
  NEEDS
• 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.

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The Model Prayer is a Starter

• Matt 69-15
• 9 In this manner, therefore, pray
• Our Father in heaven, RELATIONSHIP
• Hallowed be Your name. REVERENCE
  AWE
• 10 Your kingdom come. GODS WILL ABOVE ALL
• Your will be done
• On earth as it is in heaven.
• 11 Give us this day our daily bread. DAILY
  PHYSICAL NEEDS
• 12 And forgive us our debts, DAILY SPIRITUAL
  NEEDS
• As we forgive our debtors. DAILY INWARD NEEDS
• 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.

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The Model Prayer is a Starter

• Matt 69-15
• 9 In this manner, therefore, pray
• Our Father in heaven, RELATIONSHIP
• Hallowed be Your name. REVERENCE
  AWE
• 10 Your kingdom come. GODS WILL ABOVE ALL
• Your will be done
• On earth as it is in heaven.
• 11 Give us this day our daily bread. DAILY
  PHYSICAL NEEDS
• 12 And forgive us our debts, DAILY SPIRITUAL
  NEEDS
• As we forgive our debtors. DAILY INWARD NEEDS
• 13 And do not lead us into temptation, DAILY
  SPIRITUAL POWER
• But deliver us from the evil one.
• For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the
  glory forever. Amen.

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The Model Prayer is a Starter

• Matt 69-15
• 9 In this manner, therefore, pray
• Our Father in heaven, RELATIONSHIP
• Hallowed be Your name. REVERENCE
  AWE
• 10 Your kingdom come. GODS WILL ABOVE ALL
• Your will be done
• On earth as it is in heaven.
• 11 Give us this day our daily bread. DAILY
  PHYSICAL NEEDS
• 12 And forgive us our debts, DAILY SPIRITUAL
  NEEDS
• As we forgive our debtors. DAILY INWARD NEEDS
• 13 And do not lead us into temptation, DAILY
  SPIRITUAL POWER
• But deliver us from the evil one.
• For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the
  glory forever. Amen. LET IT BE SO

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GROWING DEEPER IN PRAYER

• PAUL MODELED SOME GREAT PRAYERS
• Phil.19-11
• Eph.314-21

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Are You In Position to Pray?

• Not if you are an unbeliever
• Not if you have yet to become a child of God by
  faith Gal.326
• Not if you have yet by faith to have been
  baptized into Christ Gal.327
• Only in Christ can we cry abba (Aramaic for
  father) Father