Wednesday, September 16, 2009
@ 1:14 AM
Saturday Sermon 12 Sept 2009
Sis Wan Ping
Title: The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13: Disciples want to learn how to pray
In this Lord's Prayer is just a heading, an example for us to kick start our prayer life
The prayer can be broken into four parts
1. Our Father in heaven (setting the tone of prayer)
- God is the father that is perfect
- God the great and mighty Father that ought to be feared and respected -when we start to pray, we should not just focus on what we want to pray but on the Father that is in heaven.
2. Hallowed be thy name (Priority of prayer)
- Hallowed= be honoured
Monday | Immediate family
(God is a holy God) |
Tuesday | Extended family
(the lord is my righteousness) |
Wednesday | Colleagues/Classmates/Friends
(the lord is my healer) |
Thursday | Church(Leader & Cellgroup)
(the lord is my shepherd) |
Friday | Our government(Singapore)
(the lord is my provider) |
Saturday | Other countries(Mission)
(the lord is my peace) |
Sunday | Worship God for who He is |
1 Samuel 2:30 - when we honour God, God will honour us back
3. Attitude of prayer (Your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is on heaven)
- Our attitude got to be submissive
- Whatever that God ask us to do we will submit to it
- We cannot have that kind of attitude that goes to pray with two choices for God to choose
- When God's kingdom, there will not be sharing of Gospel, thus we need to pray and act for people's salvation now; everyday
- When you pray, that is when you can See God's kingdom in our family
- Before we are winning for souls, we got to be weepers of soul
1 timo 2:1-2 - pray of our authorities
4. Dependence on God in prayer
A) (Give us today our daily bread): our daily necessity
B) Daily forgiveness (forgive us our debts as we have also forgive our debtors)
- Romans 8:1
- Parental forgiveness
C) Daily temptation (leads us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one)
- God I am facing a temptation now, and leading out of it now