Matt 6:5-14; Luke 11:1-13 | The Lord's Pattern For Prayer

So basically, through Jesus's teaching, I wanna do what he did for his disciples. They asked him, Lord, teach us to pray and that's what I wanna do this morning. And some of you are like, well, isn't that what you've been doing? And I'd say, yes, but I've given you a lot. I've given you a lot to process and I even had someone last Sunday text me after the sermon and say, great sermon. Next time, could you give us more room on the notes? So I know we've covered a lot of ground in just a few sermons, and I know that [00:09:00] (26 seconds)  #TeachUsToPray

tough to figure out how to pack all of that into our daily prayer life. We might treat it as a, kind of a segmented kind of thing, like, okay, I'll do this one this time or maybe I'll grab this one and because we hear all this and, like, there's no way I can get that into my prayer life. Well, that's what I love about the Lord's teaching on prayer. Through his teaching on prayer, he puts all that we've learned about praying effective prayers into a pattern for prayer. [00:09:31] (26 seconds)  #PrayerPattern

So through the two passages we just read, he he he points us back to the favorable conditions for effective prayer. Remember the last two Sundays, we've been looking at these. Well, Jesus includes all of these in his teaching on prayer. In both of these passages, we're gonna see what I'm calling today the right postures for effective prayers. But we're also going to be given by him a pattern for prayer that helps us supply the right postures when we pray. [00:09:57] (30 seconds)  #RightPosturesForPrayer

Here we are remembering favorable condition for effective praying is right relationship with God. We learned that through first John chapter five. God's privilege and promise of hearing and answering prayers belongs only to those who've been saved through faith in Jesus. Well, here in the Lord's prayer, he opens by reminding us of our position with God that comes only through faith in Jesus. He tells us to pray our father. [00:11:22] (34 seconds)  #PrayOurFather

Who are the only people in all the world who can rightly call God their father? His children. Exactly. Christians. Only those who've repented of their sins and turned in faith to Jesus as Lord and savior can call God their father because only those who believed in the son for their salvation are the children of God. The apostle John tells us in the first letter that he wrote that there are only two types of children in the world. [00:11:56] (30 seconds)  #ChildrenOfGod

Well, the Lord's prayer opens reminding us of our position before God. He is our father, we are his children, And through this pattern that he gives us, he reminds us of our position. So Christians, when our when we open our prayers addressing God as father, remember your position with God and rejoice. I mean, just being able to call him father should provoke praise in us because this position is only ours by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. [00:13:01] (44 seconds)  #RejoiceInPosition

Do you have a relationship with God? Are you one of his children? The good news is you can be. The bible says, if you'll repent of your sins and turn in faith to trusting in Jesus who died on the cross for the forgiveness of sins and rose again. Bible says, if you'll turn from your sins and turn in faith to trusting in him, you'll be saved. Call on him today. Be saved through him. Become one of his children. [00:13:45] (34 seconds)  #TurnToJesusToday

Enjoy the position that you'll have only through his son, and enjoy the privilege and promise that he hears and answers your prayers because the right posture for praying is being in a right position with God. Next, Jesus reminds us the right posture for praying is on our own. We should often pray in isolation. We live in a very distracted world, phones, social media, sports, events, entertainment, noise, busyness, all around us. [00:14:19] (32 seconds)  #PrayFromYourPosition