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The Lord’s Prayers: Week 6
Sermon begins at about 46 minutes (There were faith commitments today)
Pastor Andrew Schmidt concludes a sermon series as part of our Year of the Lord theme for 2024. This series is called, “The Lord’s Prayers” and it focuses on the prayers that Jesus prayed, with the traditional Lord’s Prayer as a base. During this series you’re encouraged to pray the Lord’s prayer every day!
Audio: (will be posted on Thursday this week)
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The Lord’s Prayers: Week 5
Sermon begins at about 32 minutes
Pastor Andrew Schmidt continues a sermon series as part of our Year of the Lord theme for 2024. This series is called, “The Lord’s Prayers” and it focuses on the prayers that Jesus prayed, with the traditional Lord’s Prayer as a base. During this series you’re encouraged to pray the Lord’s prayer every day!
Audio: (posted on Tuesdays)
You can listen to the sermon below, or you can subscribe to our Celebrators Podcast wherever you listen.
Sermon Notes:
The Lord’s Prayers: Week 4
Sermon begins at about 19 minutes
Pastor Andrew Schmidt continues a sermon series as part of our Year of the Lord theme for 2024. This series is called, “The Lord’s Prayers” and it focuses on the prayers that Jesus prayed, with the traditional Lord’s Prayer as a base. During this series you’re encouraged to pray the Lord’s prayer every day!
Audio: (posted on Tuesdays)
You can listen to the sermon below, or you can subscribe to our Celebrators Podcast wherever you listen.
Sermon Notes:
Jesus' instruction to pray 'gives us this day our daily bread' is loaded with meaning and provides a variety of ways to focus our prayers.
Give us what we need today.
Most generally we pray for what we need today and trust God will provide it. When we are overwhelmed (especially by the future) it is good to focus on God giving us what we need for the day which can bring peace where we have anxiety.
Give us what we need today physically.
We need bread, food, health, etc. All of these are items Jesus gives in the Matthew account of the feeding of the 5000 (Matthew 14:13-21).
Give us what we need today spiritually.
Jesus quoted, when fasting, that man doesn't live by bread alone but by every word that comes from God (Matthew 4:1-4). It's not just our bodies that need daily provision but our souls as well.
Give us what we need today.
I don't just pray for what I need today but also for the needs of others. Especially this prayer should remind me of God's concern for those without the basics of food, clothes, safety, etc. And I should try to be the answer to this prayer in some way (Matthew 14:16).
Give us what we need today: Jesus.
Jesus tells us he is the bread of life (John 6:48-51). We can receive life from Him that is outside of us but can be taken into us and become part of us just like with food and drink. This is a picture of what happens by the power of the Holy Spirit when we take communion in faith.
The Lord’s Prayers: Week 3
Pastor Andrew Schmidt continues a sermon series as part of our Year of the Lord theme for 2024. This series is called, “The Lord’s Prayers” and it focuses on the prayers that Jesus prayed, with the traditional Lord’s Prayer as a base. During this series you’re encouraged to pray the Lord’s prayer every day!
Audio: (posted on Tuesdays)
You can listen to the sermon below, or you can subscribe to our Celebrators Podcast wherever you listen.
Sermon Notes:
May Your kingdom come and Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10)
Heaven (the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God, the kingdom) is the realm where what God wants to happen happens.
So when we pray may Your Kingdom come we are saying God may what you want to happen happen in this specific person, situation, organization, location, community, family, etc.
Jesus called the kingdom good news and show us that the kingdom is like joy, life, healing, deliverance from evil, acceptance, etc. in all that he did. That's what we're praying for when we say Your Kingdom come.
Prayer changes things.
Jesus also prayed not my will but yours be done (Mark 26:39, 42). Even though humanly he wanted something else he prayed for and ultimately did God's will.
We tend to mainly pray with an attitude of my will be done God.
Part of the purpose of prayer is not only to change thing out there, but also to change our own hearts.
When we pray your will be done God and seek to live that out we can become the answer to our prayers or the prayers of others.
The Lord’s Prayers: Week 2
Pastor Andrew Schmidt continues a new sermon series as part of our Year of the Lord theme for 2024. This series is called, “The Lord’s Prayers” and it focuses on the prayers that Jesus prayed, with the traditional Lord’s Prayer as a base. During this series you’re encouraged to pray the Lord’s prayer every day!
Audio: (posted on Tuesdays)
You can listen to the sermon below, or you can subscribe to our Celebrators Podcast wherever you listen.
Sermon Notes:
Review: "Our Father" Jesus & I are praying this together.
Starting point is that we are praying to a person. "Thank you God that you love me. I am chosen and dearly loved."
After addressing the Father, knowing we are loved and that God is eager to give good gifts (Luke 11:7-11), we are to start asking for things in Jesus model prayer.
The first thing we are to ask for is surprising and not what usually come to mind for us when we know we can ask for anything: Hallowed be your Name: "Father, Glorify Your Name"
We hallow God's Name through expressions of praise (Luke 10:21)
We hallow God's Name when we seek his glory/to glorify Him with our lives (John 12:27-28; 17:1-5, 20-24)
We hallow God's Name when we represent his character (Deuteronomy 5:11; John 17:11, 17, Colossians 3:12-14)
We prioritize asking for God to be seen as He actually is loving, good, wise, powerful, kind, generous, etc. That we would see Him as He truly is and others would as well.
We can pray, Father, glorify your name in....(me, my family, my day to day, this situation, my workplace, etc.)
The Lord’s Prayers: Week 1
Pastor Andrew Schmidt begins a new sermon series as part of our Year of the Lord theme for 2024. This series is called, “The Lord’s Prayers” and it focuses on the prayers that Jesus prayed, with the traditional Lord’s Prayer as a base. During this series you’re encouraged to pray the Lord’s prayer every day!
Audio: (posted on Tuesdays)
You can listen to the sermon below, or you can subscribe to our Celebrators Podcast wherever you listen.
Scriptures:
Full Sermon Notes:
When Jesus disciples ask him, "Lord teach us to pray", he starts by saying
When you pray address God as "Father" or "Abba" in Arameric...ike 'Papa' or 'Dad' (Luke 11:1-2)
Jesus knows that He is God's dearly loved Son and that God is pleased with him. He hears this as he was praying (Matthew 3:17, 17:5; Luke 3:21-22, 9:29, 9:35)
In the other prayers of Jesus we have recorded he addresses God as Father. He addresses God this way through a wide range of emotions and circumstances (Luke 10:21; John 12:28; John 17:1, 5, 11, 21, 24, 25; Mark 14:36; Luke 23:34; Luke 23:36).
Jesus encourages us to pray with him "Our Father" (Matthew 6:9) it is like Jesus is praying with us (John 17:20-25, Hebrews 2:10-11, 1 John 3:1).
Jesus tells his disciples to ask the Father for good gifts and most especially the Holy Spirit (Luke 9-13).
The Holy Spirit helps us to know that we are dearly loved by the Father (Romans 8:14-17, Galatians 4:4-7).
Every day we can remind ourselves (maybe say out loud) "I am loved by God, He is pleased with me."