LUKE 11:2c-4
ESTABLISH THE NEED: If there’s ever a message that convicts all Christians, it is messages on evangelism and prayer. All Christians could work on being more evangelistic and pray more. It’s a convicting message today. Let me ask you a question: How often do you pray?
If we don’t know what to pray or how to pray, we would probably not pray. When my sister brought a drum set, after she left for college, I looked at the drum pieces disassembled, I tried putting together, I beat around a little bit, but since I didn’t know how to put it together, or know how to play, I stopped doing anything with it. That’s like our prayer life also.
Main point: We will see three principles that Jesus taught His disciples in regards to how to pray, so that you would know how and this knowledge would make you pray.
- You should pray seeking God first (2c-d)
- You should pray trusting for your daily needs (3)
- You should pray dealing with sin (4)
1 It happened that while [a]Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.” 2 And He said to them, “When you pray, say:
‘[b]Father, hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
3 ‘Give us each day our [c]daily bread.
4 ‘And forgive us our sins,
For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.’”
