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)

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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.