Sermon on the Mount: The Lord's Prayer - Matthew 6:5-15 | Pastor Daniel Reese

your Bible. Matthew 6 is where we'll be this

morning. Matthew 6. If you don't have a Bible

there should be one close to you in the chair

in front of you. Left for you to grab one of

those. Follow along. I don't know the page number

but. Should have should have looked that up.

I apologize. We're going to be looking at one

of the most well known passages in scripture

this morning the Lord's Prayer. I would be willing

to argue. that believers and non -believers know

this passage pretty well. They might not know

the true meaning of it, but they could probably

recite most of the words. So prayer is one of

those things, weird things that we know that

we should do, but how many of us could honestly

say that we are prayer warriors? How many of

us have a thriving prayer life. There are many

commands throughout the Bible regarding prayer.

We are to make our requests known to God. We

are to pray without ceasing. We are to give Him

thanks in all circumstances. And we are to give

Him praise through our prayers. But many Christians

have a prayer life that is essentially on life

support. We pray when we need something. We pray

when things are hard and we need a miracle. But

would you describe yourself as a person of prayer?

Do you communicate with God as often as you communicate

with your spouse or your kids? If you are a person

who you would describe yourself as not really

a person of prayer, Maybe it's because you don't

know how. Maybe you think of prayer as something

you do before a meal or praying by kneeling beside

your bed is what you think of when you think

of prayer. And you know that you can't pray without

ceasing if you're spending all your time kneeling

by your bed. Maybe those devotional books that

you read and they end each day with a prayer

and it seems like hollow words because you don't

understand what you were praying. But here's

what I know. Here's what I know without a doubt.

If you don't have a prayer life, God is going

to seem distant to you. If you don't have a prayer

life, you're not going to see him move powerfully

in your life. So, if God to you is like that

relative you only see once a year, maybe at Christmas

time, like you know them, but you don't really

know anything about their life, like you follow

them on social media, but you don't know what's

driving their heart, if that's how God is to

you, I would encourage you to focus on the message

that Jesus has for us today. In our passage this

morning, Jesus is going to give us the framework

of prayer. Now, I don't want you to focus so

much on the words of the prayer as much as I

want you to take away the elements of the prayer

that Jesus outlines in this passage. Let us consider

how we can develop and build our prayer lives

around these elements and see how our prayer

life can be changed. I'm going to invite Tanner

up here this morning. This morning he's going

to be reading verses 5 through 15. If you're

able we'd love for you to stand as we honor the

Lord's word together And when you pray 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 the 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. For if you forgive

others their trespasses, your heavenly Father

will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive

others their trespasses, neither will your Father

forgive your trespasses. Let's pray. Father,

thank you for Tanner. Just thank you for who

he is and how you're growing him and what you're

doing in his life. I pray, Father, that he will

always be exalted, always exalted in your life.

I pray, Father, that as we look at this text,

as we look at your words to us, I pray, Father,

that we will understand them and that our prayer

lives will increase as well. We ask all these

things in Jesus' name. Amen. Thanks, Father.

So in our passage today, we're going to look

at a few things. The first thing is we're going

to look at how not to pray. And then we're going

to look at how we should pray. This prayer has

rightly been called a dangerous prayer because

God might just answer it. It is poetic and beautiful,

and yet it's profound and brief. Jesus had a

great deal to say about prayer throughout his

life. He mentioned the topic 42 times during

his teaching and amazingly the gospel shows him

praying 28 times. But if we look at verses 5

through 8, Jesus tells us how not to pray. He

says you shouldn't pray to be recognized. Now

the religious people, the religious leaders were

all about praying to be recognized. Notice that

they loved to receive religious recognition.

It's easy to equate man's applause with God's

approval, but those who pray to just impress

others about with how spiritual they are will

have no further hope of reward from God. In verse

six, we're told to find a private place to pray.

This Greek word for room was a storeroom where

treasures were kept. I mean, how appropriate

is that, that we have access to these precious

treasures when we pray to God? This word can

also refer to a closet or a private chamber.

Praying in a private place can help us concentrate.

It can help us connect. It will help us gain

confidence in our relationship with Christ. Are

you taking the time day in and day out to pray?

Do you have a special spot where you're able

to intercede without interruption? He also tells

us not to pray with meaningless words. We must

also resist the urge to just go on and on and

on and blabber and blabber and blabber. God doesn't

rank our prayers based on how many words we have.

That's what he's saying here. Prayer is not an

effort to overcome God's unwillingness to respond

by wearing Him down with our words. That's how

the pagans prayed. we read about it in first

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kings chapter 18 we also see it again in acts

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chapter 19 and they would for hours and hours

and hours from morning until night just pray

these words to these false gods and essentially

they were useless because those gods number one

don't exist but couldn't do anything about it

anyway they're meaningless because all they did

was make those religious people look spiritual

but there is no life in them D .L. Moody once

said, some men's prayers need to be cut short

at both ends and to be set on fire in the middle.

It's easy to pray without paying attention. John

Bunyan commented, when you pray, rather let your

heart be without words than your words without

heart. Now, it's ironic to me that in the context

which forbids repetition in prayer, in verses

9 through 13, we come to what's commonly called

the Lord's Prayer. A prayer that has possibly

been repeated more than any other prayer in the

history of the world. Actually, it's probably

better to call it the Disciples Prayer, or maybe

even the Model Prayer. because in Luke chapter

Luke 11:1

11 verse 1 these words come as an answer when

the disciples ask, teach us how to pray. The

real Lord's prayer is actually in John 17 where

we read of Jesus crying out to his father as

he prays for unity amongst his followers. The

model for prayer that Jesus gave to his followers

can be divided into two sets with three elements.

in each set. The first three, hallowed be your

name, your kingdom come, your will be done, those

deal with God's glory. That's element number

one we need to recognize when we're talking about

prayer. God's glory has to be a part of that

prayer. The second three, give us our daily bread,

forgive us our debts, lead us not into temptation,

deal with our good. So, number one, prayer is

to be, the focal point is to be the character

of God. The reason that we pray and the reason

God answers is not to make us feel better. The

reason we pray and the reason God answers is

to put himself and his glory on display. We read

about this in Psalm 115, where the psalmist writes,

not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name

be the glory. So, incidentally, half of the words

in this prayer are devoted to who God is. The

other half is focusing on our needs. Now, when

you think about praying and you think about your

prayer life, that's a good ratio to keep in mind

as we pray for God's glory and for our good.

Now, incidentally, I don't know anywhere in the

Bible, anywhere in the Gospels, where the disciples

were characterized as men of prayer. They often

watched Jesus pray or they are often sent away

while Jesus pray, but they didn't enter into

intercession themselves. In fact, in the hour

of Jesus' greatest need, they fell asleep instead

of falling to their knees. I mean, we're the

same way, aren't we? We know prayer is important.

We know Jesus modeled it. But for most of us,

we all fall short. So we know the framework of

how not to pray. Now let's look at how to pray.

We see in verse nine that there is a community

element to our prayers. Jesus uses the plural

pronoun here to indicate that prayer is to have

a corporate element to it. You should pray. Now,

most of us come to the Lord with a lot of I,

a lot of me, a lot of my. When Jesus taught his

disciples how to pray, he uses no singular personal

pronouns. Nowhere in this prayer do you see the

word of me. It says, our Father, give us our

daily bread. Forgive us our debts. We also have

forgiven. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver

us. Now that might sound like it goes against

what Jesus just said earlier about going into

a prayer closet or going into your room. He's

not saying that the only time that we should

be praying is when we're all in this thing together.

But what he is saying is that there should be

some common ground in our prayers. It is understanding.

It's you having the understanding. It's me having

the understanding that the God that we pray to,

who we believe hears us, is the same God who

your redeemed enemy is praying to. It's this

community thing. Do you see how that would protect?

the church from disunity. Do you see if you are

genuinely praying for our sin to be forgiven

as we forgive others? Do you understand how that

keeps a root of bitterness from growing in us?

If you are a believer in here, we need to understand

that as we follow this framework, we are praying

to the God who hears all of us. And he knows

all of our hearts. Whenever one of my kids comes

to me and tattles on the other, I don't know

if your kids do that, but my kids come to me

from time to time, and by time to time I mean

about every day, and tell on their brother or

sister. They did this to me, they stole that

from me, they hit me, they looked at me ugly,

they, you know, whatever. Whatever the reason

is. When that happens, I don't just listen to

one side of the story. I bring the accused in

with them, and I want to hear the whole story.

And the truth of the matter is, most of the time,

they are both wrong in some way. They're both

at fault. They both need to forgive. They both

need to recognize they're wrong. When we pray

to God in this way, we have to understand that

God knows all. And very few times, if ever, is

one person completely right and the other person

completely wrong. Both parties have done wrong.

Both parties need to forgive. Our prayer lives

have a community element to it. So when you go

into your prayer closet, keep that in mind. We

also need to pray to God like we have a relationship

with Him. Let's pray like we have a relation

with him. Prayer should be directed to our Father

in heaven. Jesus addressed his prayers to his

Father. He used the phrase more than 70 different

times. This alone, this just this little snippet

alone was unique because the religious leaders

of that day didn't use that term. Rather, they

use exalted terms like king of the universe or

sovereign lord. The only prayer Jesus ever prayed

without father was when he was on the cross and

he cried out, my God, my God, why have you forsaken

me? When we become Christians, when we submit

to him, we surrender our lives to him. Romans

8 15 says that we receive the Holy Spirit who

makes us children of God. this is what it says

and by him we cry Abba father this new birth

this salvation is required for us to have this

relationship this word Abba means daddy it's

that closeness it communicates intimacy it communicates

nearness with God so we don't approach him like

he's our boss we don't approach him like he's

he's some powerful figure that we should be uncomfortable

around because they hold this immense amount

of power. This is our maker, our creator, who

invites us into a personal relationship with

him so we should be ourselves, just be normal,

just be comfortable. It would be weird for me

if my kids called me Mr. Reese. It wouldn't seem

right to me is when I put them to bed and they

call me, they say, thanks, pastor. That would

be weird for me. That doesn't show the relationship

that we have. Instead, my kids, they call me

daddy or bruh. Depends on the day. But my relationship

with them supersedes my title. In any title I

will ever have, I am their dad. And they interact

with me like that, because that's the case. Then

Jesus tells us, we start the conversation with

our father. So once we acknowledge the relationship

that we have, we are to start with affection

towards him. To hallow means to make holy. He

is intimate like a father. and yet He is infinite

in holiness. God's nature is like a daddy, but

His name is holy. Our open access to Him should

not destroy our esteem for Him. He is not just

the big guy in the sky. He's not just our best

buddy. He is the holy, awesome God of Israel.

He's our God. He's holy and mighty in every way.

We should tremble like Isaiah did in Isaiah chapter

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6. While we also have a relationship with him,

we must also at the same time revere him. He

is our friend, but he's also an all -consuming

fire according to Hebrews chapter 12. He is other

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than us, and yet he is ours. He is personal.

and He is powerful. He is mine and He is majestic.

Do you praise and do you prize God's name? When

you pray, Our Father, hallowed be Your name,

it's a safeguard against self -seeking prayer.

Before we can move on to the other petitions

in this prayer, we must ask God to make His name

holy in our life, to help us recognize His greatness.

And we must avoid using His name in an irreverent

manner. For some of us, I'm not calling any names,

but for some of us, that means we need to stop

using His name as a cuss word. For others, it

means that we need to avoid just saying God's

name tritely or using the Christian equivalent

to a swear word. To many of us, our view of God

is shallow. To remedy this, we must hallow His

name. Then we need affirmation to pray your kingdom

come Your kingdom come is to pray that God may

take up a reigning Residence in the hearts and

lives of those who are in rebellion. It is a

prayer of salvation It's a kingdom citizenship

in Luke chapter 17 verse 21 Jesus says that the

Luke 17:21

kingdom of God is within you The kingdom of God

is within you. Can you imagine? Can you imagine

what would happen if we all were preoccupied

with the coming of God's kingdom? If that's all

we thought about Just just think about what would

take place in this community if we were determined

To pray that God's kingdom would rule and make

itself known in the lives of our neighbors, in

the lives of our coworkers, in the lives of our

family. Can you imagine how our church would

be different if each of us was concerned more

about God's kingdom than our own? Martin Luther

once said that if most Christians really understood

what they were saying when they prayed for God's

kingdom to come. They'd shutter with fear. Do

you pray for God's kingdom to come? Finally,

there's acceptance. Your will be done on earth

as it is in heaven. When we pray that part, we

are really saying, Almighty Father God, take

control. Take control of my life and do what

you will for your glory. We're accepting it's

His will not ours. Prayer is not asking God to

do my will. It's asking God to do His will. It's

bringing me into conformity with His ways. How

is God's will done in heaven? It's done joyfully.

It's done instinctively. It's done immediately

and constantly. What would that look like? God,

your will be done on earth. Just like it is in

heaven. God, give me the joy to do your will.

Let me not wait. Let me not wait till I get my

ducks in a row. Let me do it immediately. Let

me do it constantly just not just when I feel

like it. That's that's what that prayer is to

pray this request It is to say we want it the

same here. Whatever is going on in heaven. Whatever

is happening right now That's what we want here.

I mean, let's pause and reflect on this What's

happening in heaven right now? God do that right

here now if I pray this request It's also my

pledge that by God's grace, I will do His will.

I want to do His will. So we acknowledge God

as our Father. And then the next things out of

our mouth should be things that show that we

understand that this is all about His glory.

It's not about what I want. It's about what He

wants. We want His name honored. We want to pray

that his kingdom will take precedence over ours

and that we would submit to his will Now once

we have spent some time focused on his glory

then Then we begin to make requests for our good

Notice that we're halfway through this thing.

We're halfway through this prayer before Jesus

allows us for to ask ourselves for anything to

ask Him for anything for ourselves. The first

half of this model prayer is God word. It's adoration.

It's affirmation. It's acceptance. The second

half focuses on the believer. We move from God's

glory to our good. Now we're shifting. Once God

is given His rightful place, once we've acknowledged

who He is, once we've made His name holy, then

we have the proper perspective towards ourselves.

Now here's some good parameters for you to consider

and to keep in mind before you start praying

for your good. We should ask ourselves these

questions before we make our requests known.

By asking these questions, it will help keep

our eyes focused on Him and off of ourselves.

So, God, this request that I have, I'm going

to ask myself the question, will it bring glory

to him? This request, is it going to bring him

glory? This request, is it going to advance his

kingdom? This request, is it going to help people?

This request, is it going to help me grow spiritually?

And so, God, I got this job promotion lined up.

It's coming. I want it. Is this going to bring

you glory? If I get a pay raise, is this going

to bring you glory? God, I want this house. I

want this new house. I want this new car. Is

this going to bring you glory? How can I use

this house for your glory? How is it going to

advance your kingdom? How is this going to help

me grow spiritually? And once we have the right

parameters, the first thing that we should be

praying for in regards to ourselves is provision.

When we pray give us each day our daily bread

we are saying that we trust God as The source

to supply all of our physical needs of our lives

And and we are affirming that he will take care

of everything that we need Notice that this trust

in God is for each day In the first century Bread

had to be made on a daily basis. Now some of

you were making sourdough bread or whatever,

and you do that every day. But if you didn't

do it, you'd still be okay, right? It's not like

you went and bought a bunch of bread and threw

it in the freezer in the first century. They

had to make their bread every single day, like

manna that comes once a day. God provides one

day at a time. I love Proverbs 30 verse 8. It

Proverbs 30:8

says, give me neither poverty nor riches, but

give me only my daily bread. Don't make me poor.

Don't make me rich. Just give me what I need

to make through this day. That's our every year

prayer. During these challenging economic times

when eggs are whatever they are per, I don't

buy the groceries, but I keep hearing they're

expensive. Ask God to give you your daily bread.

The point of this prayer is not for us to get

what we want. It's for us to rely on God for

what we need This is like that old saying of

how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time

one bite at a time if we only think of where

we want to be That could be overwhelming It's

overwhelming isn't it? I want to be this far

on my spiritual journey. I want to have this

much invested. If we think about that, it's overwhelming,

one day at a time. If you ever want to overcome

any sort of addiction, you don't start with the

mindset of, I've been free from it for a year.

You ask God to give you what you need for that

day. God, give me the strength to make it through

this day. And then you do it the next day. and

the next day. And then you look up and you've

been pure for a year, you've been sober for a

year, you've been clean for a year, one day at

a time. Then let us pray for pardon. You might

not know this, so I'll enlighten you. Forgiveness

of sin is the greatest need of the human heart.

Forgiveness of your sin is your greatest need.

Only God can grant us a pardon from punishment

and guilt. Sin is a debt that only God can free

us from. Notice that Jesus immediately after

he says that gives a little caveat here. We are

to also release others from that debt. This verse

teaches us that it is wrong to ask from God what

we are unwilling to give to other people. This

is the only prayer petition in the disciples

prayer that is emphasized with additional challenging

words in verses 14 through 15. For if you forgive

men when they sin against you, God's going to

forgive you. But if you don't forgive others,

your father will not forgive your sins. Now,

it isn't that God forgives us on an exchange

basis. Our forgiveness of others is not a condition

of God's forgiveness for us. Rather, it's a condition

of our ability to receive the forgiveness of

God. A wrong spirit towards another person may

or may not hurt him, but it is certain to destroy

your own soul. I mean, it is the height of hypocrisy

to expect God to forgive us if we are unwilling

to forgive others. And when we fail to forgive

someone, We set ourselves up as a higher judge

than God Himself. Another way to say it is that

our relationship with the Lord cannot be right

until our relationship with others is made right.

I came across this prayer a four -year -old prayed.

I love how he prayed this part of the prayer.

He says, and forgive us our trash baskets as

we forgive those who put trash in our baskets.

Forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those

who keep putting the trash in our basket. In

his book, Why Prayers are Unanswered, John Lavender

tells a story about Norman Vincent Peale. When

Peale was a little boy, he found a big black

cigar. and he slipped into the alley and he lit

it up. To his surprise, it didn't taste very

good. Started coughing, but it made him feel

mature, made him feel like a grown up until he

saw his father coming. And quickly, he hid the

lit cigar behind his back. As his dad approached

him, and desperate to divert his father's attention,

Norman pointed to a billboard advertising the

circus. Can I go, Dad? Please, let's go when

that thing comes to town. Can we do that? His

father's reply taught Norman a lesson he never

forgot. Son, he answered quietly but firmly,

never make a petition. while at the same time

trying to hide a smoldering disobedience. We

are commanded to forgive. Don't make requests

to God with a heart that is walking in disobedience.

Then finally, we need to pray for protection.

He says, and lead us not into temptation. So

if you notice, there's three requests for ourselves.

There's been three requests for ourselves. One

is the present. Give us our daily bread. Give

us what we need to make it through the day. One

looks at the past and the present. Forgive us

our sins. Forgive us what we've done in the past.

Forgive us what we're doing today. This last

one looks at the future. Will God answer a prayer

like that? Lead us not into temptation. You bet

He will. First Corinthians 10 and 13 gives us

a wonderful promise. No temptation has seized

you. Accept what is common to man and God is

faithful. He will not allow you to be tempted

beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted,

He will also provide a way out so that you can

stand up under it. When you're faced with an

enticement, look for the way out and don't put

yourself in situations to sin. God will provide

a way out. He will have a door ready for you

to walk through. I'd encourage you to memorize

Psalm 19 verse 13. It's a very practical prayer

Psalms 19:13

for each and every one of us. Keep your servant

also from willful sins. May they never rule over

me. Keep me from willful sins. May they never

rule over me. It's a powerful prayer. So this

is the framework Jesus gives us. This is how

we are supposed to pray. by getting our eyes

off of ourselves, by getting them onto God. They

are not self -seeking prayers. They are prayers

that grow our faith. They are prayers that will

strengthen our relationship with our Father.

This is the framework. I want to look at one

more prayer together, and then we'll wrap up

our time. Turn with me to Matthew chapter 14,

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a few pages over. Now this comes... It's a story

after Jesus had spent some time grieving over

the loss of his cousin, John the Baptist. Right

after that he has to go feed a whole bunch of

people and teach them. They're following him.

So he's just exhausted. Can you imagine that?

He's been grieving. Then he has to teach. Then

he has to do all these miracles. He's exhausted.

He sends the disciples ahead of him, and it says

that he spent some time alone praying. Now, I

love this passage because it shows Jesus's humanity.

He was tired. He's done praying. The boat's a

long way off. I don't even know if he could see

it, but he knew where it was because, you know,

he's God. He could have taken the long walk around

the sea to wherever they were supposed to meet

up. Showed up there early in the morning completely

exhausted But instead he took a shortcut Why

walk around the sea? When I can just walk straight

to them on the sea and in verse 25 we see Jesus

walking on the water towards his disciples in

verse 28 it reads here's the prayer and Peter

answered him Lord if it is you Command me to

come to you on the water Do you hear the prayer?

Peter makes a request to Jesus. He makes the

request. Jesus didn't tell him to walk on the

water. Peter requested it. He requested that

he walk on the water. Peter had a desire to be

close to Jesus. He didn't seem to care about

the fact that any other day he would have sank

right to the bottom. He's not able to walk on

the water. But he made the request anyways. That's

a bold prayer. That's a bold prayer. And here's

the thing. Jesus grants the request. Peter asked,

and Jesus says, come. The request is known. Jesus

says, come. And all of a sudden, what was impossible

became possible because Peter wasn't concerned

that normally he was going to sink. He was going

to defy the laws of science and then verse 30

But when he saw the wind he was afraid and beginning

to sink he cried out Lord save me So Peter has

his eyes focused on Jesus when he makes the request

When he makes the request to walk on the water

he's focused on Jesus, but once Jesus answers

the request Peter's eyes are no longer focused

on Jesus. They are focused on the environment.

They're focused on the fear. They're focused

on the distractions that are around them, but

they're not focused on Jesus. I mean, is that

not us? Is that not how we operate? We pray to

God when we're afraid. Peter does so twice in

this passage. The first time, he thinks Jesus

is a ghost. He's scared. Jesus, if that's you,

command me to come on the water. He prays again

out of fear when He's sinking down to the water.

But when things are going well, when He gets

His prayers answered, He completely takes His

focus off of Jesus. Is that not us? We pray when

things are hard. We pray when we need a miracle.

We pray when we're in tough situations. But do

we seek after Him when things are calm? Do we

continue to seek after Him after He grants our

request? Do we continue to seek after Him when

we are distracted by our lives in the routine

of the day? If you're sinking, my guess would

be because your eyes are not focused on Him.

If you feel like life is drowning you, I would

guess it's because your eyes are not focused

on Him. So that's how we're supposed to pray.

Our focus is on Him, our relationship with Him,

our focus is on His glory and who He is and what

He's done and how majestic He is. And then our

requests then shift to us for our good. We pray

for things that are for our good. That's how

to pray. That's all I got. So we're going to

close out our service this morning. We're going

to sing one more worship song. But maybe this

is the time that we need to repent. Repent of

all those times we viewed Jesus. We viewed our

Father as a genie in a bottle. Where we haven't

made His name holy. Where it's just about what

we can get from Him. So maybe as we sing, maybe

you just give Him praise for who He is. Maybe

you make His name holy in your life. Maybe you

truly consider what it means for His kingdom

to be on this earth like it is in heaven. Maybe

you pray Psalm 19, keep your servant away from

willful sins. May they not roll over you That'll

help you grow spiritually won't it? So I'm gonna

close this in prayer And we'll worship father.

I thank you for this day. I thank you for the

words of Jesus I Thank you for who you are father.

May your name be made holy in this place always

May your will be done in this church and in this

community as it is in heaven Father help us forgive

others as you have forgiven us So God we give

you this time we we ask you We ask you to help

grow us spiritually grow our faith in you Help

us understand the importance and the immediacy

of having a strong relationship with You. So

Father, I pray that You will whisper in our ear

as we worship You. Help us understand Your heart.

Help us not view You as some distant being. Help

us view You as our Father. We ask all these things

in Jesus name. Amen.