Intro to Our Lord's Personal Model for Praying (TMF:1227)

Tuesday, October 01, 2019
Peace to Live By: Intro to Our Lord's Personal Model for Praying (TMF:1227) - Daniel Litton
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       One of the most important things we do in our daily lives is pray. At that heart our being is our relationship with God, and we have this relationship through prayer. Really, the sole reason we, as humans, exist is to be in relationship with God. That’s why God created us. He wanted people to be his who would willingly love him, who would choose to love him. He didn’t want to have to force anyone to be his, to love him, and assuredly, he does not. Each of our individual relationships with God is a choice. We have chosen to be in relationship with him. But because we live in this fallen world, because God is separated from it physically, we relate to him for the time being through prayer. If prayer is so significant for us, as Christians—and it is—then I think it would be a good idea for us to consider how the Lord told us to pray—to know how to pray. Many of us pray daily, and a lot of us have different ways of doing it. What I want us to see over the course of the next three weeks is that Jesus outlined a certain, specific way we should pray. And, of course, this outline is found in Matthew chapter 6, and is commonly called The Lord’s Prayer.