Message Notes

INTRODUCTION

1. Learning lessons about Prayer

a) Let these lessons be personal

b) Let them also be practical

c) Seek to make prayer more meaningful in your life

2. The Lord’s Prayer III

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.
14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 6:9-15

3. Another vital thing to pray about

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.

Matthew 6:13

a) Temptation

i) This word may also be translated “testing”

ii) Or it may be “temptation” to do that which is wrong/ evil

b) This prayer is a plea to God

i) If possible, to be spared from testing/ temptation

ii) It is possible that God may hear this plea

c) But if the Lord’s will is for us to face this test/ temptation

i) We may pray that God would deliver us the evil one

ii) Satan desires to entrap us to do his will

iii) This prayer is to ask the Lord to take us out of the grasp of the evil one

4. An example of how God can deliver a person

a) The Lord Jesus warned His disciples about how they would flee when He is arrested Matthew 26:31

b) Peter claims that he would never stumble Matthew 26:33

c) The Lord warned Peter that he would deny Him three times Matthew 26:34

d) All of the Disciples declared that they would never betray Him Matthew 26:35

e) The Lord told Peter:

i) I have prayed for you

ii) That your faith should not fail

iii) And when you have returned to Me

iv) Strengthen your brethren Luke 22:32

f) Peter and his fellow-disciples fled from the Lord in fear

g) But all returned to the Lord except for Judas Iscariot

CONCLUDING THE LORD’S PRAYER

1. To focus on the Lord God

a) His glory

b) His power

2. Amen

a) It means, “May it be as we have prayed!”

b) In humble submission to God’s will

3. A reminder to practise Forgiveness

14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 6:14-15

a) Forgiving others is to be diligently practised

b) How can we ask God to forgive us of our sins when we cannot forgive others of their sins?