Sunday Service Live At Awakening Church | Jesus and Prayer | 11.5.23

Sunday Service Live At Awakening Church | Jesus and Prayer | 11.5.23

Join us for church today! Pastor David de la Cruz shares that the Lord’s Prayer serves as the perfect model for what to pray and how to pray.

Broadcasting live from Awakening Church in Smithfield, Rhode Island. We'd love to have you join us on Sundays! You'll find more information about our services here: https://awakeningchurch.org

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🔑 KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- The Lord’s Prayer is the perfect model for what to pray and how to pray. It covers all of the important elements of a powerful prayer.
- As we read the Lord’s Prayer we discover what God desires most from us: purposeful, authentic, heartfelt communication with him that acknowledges our need for him.
- This prayer communicates what God desires: a relationship with us. What happens in Heaven, Lord, let is come to EARTH!
- What does Jesus teach us about prayer? 1) Don’t be a fake 2) Do not forget your focus. It’s not to others, it’s to God.
- 5 Eternal Principles to Prayer: Praise, Petition, Provision, Peace, and Protection
- Praise: Our first response to God is to always Praise (Matthew 6:9 … Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.)
- Petition: You are approaching a king. Make a request of the king. (Matthew 6:10 … Your kingdom come, you will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.)
- Provision: God always provides (Matthew 6:11 …Give us this day our daily bread.)
- Protection: (Matthew 6:13 … And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.)
- Prayer is so basic, but you never outgrow it. You never mature out of it.

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📖 SCRIPTURES
- [Matthew 6:5-13] And when you pray (not if), you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
- [James 4:13-15] Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit — yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
- [Matthew 7:11] If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
- [Romans 8:31] If God is for us, who can be against us?

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