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!

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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."