Matt.6:9-15
We should praise Him or thank Him,not just for the good He does,but Who He is.
We need to surrender our authority and will for His authority and will in our lives.
We make our requests for what we need that day.
We ask forgiveness for anything we did or said that was against God (repentance of sin).
Though in order for us to be forgiven we must forgive others. (14-15)
Satan will try different ways to ruin our relationship with God or make us lose our relationship with Him all together.We need to ask God to keep us alert to his ways of leading us atray,and when Satan tries something,see how God is delivering us out. ( Heb.4:15-16) Satan can't lead us astray unless we let him,but if we ask for God's help,He will deliver us.
Finally,we should praise God again for what He is going to do and for being unchangeable.
So we need to:
Praise to God
Repent to God
Ask to God
Yield to God
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Prayer ( Part 1)
Matt 6:5-8
What a praying person is not to do:
He isn't to pray in such a way to draw attention to himself.
He isn't to pray the same words over and over again.
What a praying person is to do:
He is to go some place to be alone,or if he can't be alone in a room or place,be alone with God in his thoughts.Commune with God quietly or silently.
He is to speak to God from his heart.
God is our heavenly Daddy,and like our earthly daddy knows what we need each day,so does God,even more so,since He is our all-knowing Creator.So why would we need to make requests to our daddies?
It has to do with relationship.If we didn't talk to someone,what kind of relationship would we have with that person?Likely we wouldn't have any relationship with them and that person would be quite hurt.Our earthly father wants a relationship with us,but our heavenly Father wants a relationship with us even more so.That's why He created us.It's easy to have a relationship with our earthly daddy.We can see and hear him,but God is Spirit.We have to see and hear him with our heart.Yet,God will speak with us and wants to,if we'll talk to Him.
So how shall we pray?
What a praying person is not to do:
He isn't to pray in such a way to draw attention to himself.
He isn't to pray the same words over and over again.
What a praying person is to do:
He is to go some place to be alone,or if he can't be alone in a room or place,be alone with God in his thoughts.Commune with God quietly or silently.
He is to speak to God from his heart.
God is our heavenly Daddy,and like our earthly daddy knows what we need each day,so does God,even more so,since He is our all-knowing Creator.So why would we need to make requests to our daddies?
It has to do with relationship.If we didn't talk to someone,what kind of relationship would we have with that person?Likely we wouldn't have any relationship with them and that person would be quite hurt.Our earthly father wants a relationship with us,but our heavenly Father wants a relationship with us even more so.That's why He created us.It's easy to have a relationship with our earthly daddy.We can see and hear him,but God is Spirit.We have to see and hear him with our heart.Yet,God will speak with us and wants to,if we'll talk to Him.
So how shall we pray?
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