Last time we were together we discussed what Jesus called the "so-called prayer warriors" and the fact that prayer is not a formula for getting what you want from God. Today we will talk about more legalistic techniques and why they do not work. "With a God like this...
"hallowed be your name" (Matthew 6:9b NIV) By definition hallowed means sanctified, consecrated, sacred and holy, but when applied to God Almighty, it is becomes much more than dry words on a page. It is precious treasure, sweeping into our hearts and stirring our...
Part Six talked about the respect we are to have for the name of The Lord. Today we will get our marching orders as we go about spreading the gospel into all the land as Jesus dictates. "your kingdom come" (Matthew 6:10 NIV) Someday Jesus will return to the earth and...
In Part Seven of our series on The Lord's Prayer we learned what the Lord expects from us to further His Kingdom. Today we will learn more about finding God's will for our lives. "your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." (Matthew 6:10b NIV) We pray to the Lord...
We last talked about God's will for our lives. Now we will learn why we do not need to worry about lives and our provisions day by day, although we do. It is definitely part of our humanity due to the fall of man that caused us to have to work hard for our living, but...
The Lord is our Provider. We learned this last time in Part Nine. Today's lesson is a hard one and the basis of the series as it was first given to me, a bitter pill indeed but necessary to our lives as Christians: "And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven...
Last time we talked about forgiveness and the Lord's expectations of us in this matter. Today we move on into an area that challenges all Christians everywhere, and that is temptation. We are all tempted, as was Jesus Christ Himself, but God does make a way for us to...
Prayer impacts so know from the start that when you pray for others, it may cost them dearly. When Pharaoh announced that every male child born to an Israelite should be destroyed, Jochebed's prayers for her infant son, Moses, must have been heartbreaking. Yet she had...
Today we come to the end of our series on The Lord's Prayer. This will be our surrender to our King. We will denounce any praise that comes our way as we point to the one true God as the author of all good things and deserving of any and all honor and glory and...
Should Christians fast today? If so, how and why should they fast? Below is an overview of fasting in the Bible from the Harper Bible dictionary: "fasting, abstention from food. In the Old Testament there are two kinds of fasting, public and private. Public fasts were...