Teach Us to Pray

The lesson is from Luke 11 in which the disciples ask Jesus to teach them to pray.  His response tells us to use the words we have come to know as The Lord's Prayer.

Are you confident in your prayer life?  If the concept of prayer overwhelms you, it is okay.

1.  Prayer must be understood in its corporate nature.
     Even if you are alone in prayer you are praying this prayer with Christians everywhere.  The conversation began long before us and it will continue long after we are gone.

Jesus invited us to participate in this conversation with God.

2,  Prayer must be an outflow of the intimacy you have with God.

     Jesus made a way for us all to sit at the big kids table.  We are His and He has asked us into a relationship with the Triune God.

3.  Prayer must be entered into humbly and with boldness.

     Though we call him Father, His ways are far above our ways.  We are humble before Him, yet he has invited us to enter boldly before His throne!

"The power of prayer is in the One who hears it, not in the one who says it." --Max Lucado

Pastor Johnnie Blair

Sunday morning