Bible Lesson 24.2 Prayer

Hi guys.

I'm really excited to be back with you today.

Continuing our weekly Bible lesson, we are going to move

forward with less than 24.2 career.

Now your focus for today is how to pray, and

your weekly Bible verse comes from Matthew.

Chapter six, verse six.

So as we begin today's lesson, I'd like you to

think about something.

What would be easier solving a puzzle with or without

a picture model?

Now let me put this into perspective.

When you buy a puzzle in a box, most of

them, if not all of them, have the picture of

what the puzzle should look like already on the box

before you even get started.

So as you work on it, you have a model

toe look at then.

Sometimes you might get a puzzle that doesn't come with

a picture.

It's just a box with puzzle pieces, So imagine what

it would be easier to solve.

Well, definitely almost always easier or someone to do a

complex task.

Um, if there's a model or perhaps even instructions available,

so if you had the picture of the puzzle, you

would likely have an easier time solving that puzzle or

or finishing completing it, then you would if you had

no guidance.

Now Jesus knew that his disciples needed a model for

prayer, and today's lesson will focus on Jesus Prayer model.

Now Jesus's disciples were eager to know how to pray,

so Jesus gave them a model prayer.

Now this prayer is one that Christians frequently call the

Lord's Prayer.

Now, before Jesus gave the disciples this model, he gave

them instructions about prayer.

So if you'll join me in looking at Matthew Chapter

six versus five through 13 and follow along as I

read through this now you don't have to take your

Bibles out cause I did provide that for you today.

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites,

for they love to pray, standing in the synagogues and

on the street corners to be seen by others.

Truly, I tell you, they have received their reward and

full, but when you pray, go into your room, close

the door and pray to your father who is unseen.

Then your father, who sees what is done in secret,

will reward you, and when you pray, do not keep

on babbling like pagans for They think they will be

heard because of their many words.

Do not be like them for your father knows what

you need before you ask him.

No. Jesus told the disciples that they were not supposed

to be hypocrites People who Onley pretend to have a

close relationship with God now.

Rather, he wanted them to spend time alone with God

when they prayed and wanted them to pray sincerely.

Jesus also warned his disciples not to simply recite memorized

prayers without thinking about the words.

So now what I'm going to do is I'm going

to continue finishing this specific verses and actually read the

prayer to you.

Now this one does come from the new international version.

This, then, is how you should pray our father in

heaven. How it would 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

the evil one.

Now the Lord's Prayer teaches followers of Jesus what to

pray for and included in these in the prayer are

what we call petitions.

Now petitions are defined as a request, something a believer

of God asks for Now, I'm going to basically break

down, um, versus nine through 13 of this Lord's Prayer

and just kind of show you what?

Um, The explanations are for each of these verses and

and show you the petitions that are mentioned the requests

that are placed into this prayer.

So in verse nine, it says hallowed hallow means holy.

So this statement tells believers that God's name is holy.

And when Christians pray in this way, you are praising

God for His Holiness.

And you are also acknowledging that God's name must be

used in the right way.

So how long would be thy name now, then in

verse 10 by kingdom come, they will be done.

This verse is a request for God's kingdom to come

and his will be done.

When Christians pray this petition, they are acknowledging that they

are subjects in God's kingdom.

They are also acknowledging that they need to seek to

discover and obey God's will in their life.

Now then, in verse 11 this petition is a request

for God to supply the physical needs of his people.

Whether those needs are the needs of the person praying

or the needs of others.

Now, in verse 12 this petition is a request for

God's forgiveness.

But it also involves responsibility for you as Christians to

forgive those who have sinned against you.

Okay, that's a really important one.

Forgive those who have sinned against you, and then finally,

in 13 God, the This is something that people often

bring up because it says lead us not into temptation.

God does not tempt anyone to sin.

And you can find a reference of this in James

1 13 So, what does this verse mean?

What is this petition?

Well, this verse simply is a request for God's help

facing temptation.

Um, you know, we are often in the face of

temptations daily.

There are different things that come into our lives.

And we have to make a choice.

And this petition, this request, um, that we are asked

God for is to help us when we're in the

face of temptation and to help us not go in

that direction.

Now, what's really important about these last two lessons that

you've learned about in 24.1.

Euler, you looked at prayer in general.

And then now we're learning how to pray.

So how can we use what we learned today and

yesterday in our lives?

Well, first yesterday you learned that there are five aspects

of prayer we have praise, um, confession and repentance, Thanksgiving

as well as others needs and personal needs.

Okay. Now, these, um, are aspects of prayer that are

actually, um, reflected in the Lord's Prayer model, which is

what you learned today.

Today you learned how to pray, and you learn how

to pray by using the Lord's Prayer.

And so let's combine these two.

So if you observe the model, if you observe the

Lord's Prayer and take a closer look at it, you

will have those aspects of the five aspects of prayer

with in it so you can use it as a

guide when you pray.

So here are some examples In verse nine we represent

praise in verse 10.

You are praying for the personal needs in verse 11

you were praying for others needs or even more personal

needs and verse 12 you are praying for confession and

repentance. And then, of course, Verse 13.

You're praying for your personal need again going back to

help asking God to help you not be led into

temptation. So is very important that you commit the Lord's

Prayer to your memory that you take time every day.

If you don't already have it memorized and use it,

use it because when you don't know how to pray,

this is the prayer that you can use.

And, um, and and this will guide you and lead

you into other ways that you can pray.

So I'd like to end this lesson with a reflection

to action.

So your reflection today will be to, um to think

of to be blessed by the things that you learn.

You are incredibly blessed by the things that you are

learning. Ah, in Bible every day and every week.

And now you reflect on that.

And I want you to think about this because God

has already prepared these things for you, and they're they're

here for you In every day, every week, every month,

and every year that you are coming to school, something

else is being revealed.

God reveals at the right time when we need it.

And he doesn't just reveal it to us for our

own personal knowledge.

But he reveals it to us so we can do

something with it.

We can take action.

So this is now your action time.

You need to go and bless others with this knowledge.

We need to spread this this message.

We need to get more people.

Teoh here, um, the amazing things that God is doing

in their life and maybe they just don't realize it

yet. So be blessed again that you know all of

these things be excited that you're going to be learning

more as the years come and when Now that you

know, or when you do know go, go and bless

others. And during this time again of uncertainty and panic

and fear that we have in our world, nothing could

help anyone more been prayer.

And if you can share what you know about the

Lord's prayer, it can give someone a starting point somewhere

to start, um, to pray and and then maybe they

will take that knowledge.

It is our hope anyway, that they'll take that knowledge

and share it with someone else, and it will continue

to be a chain reaction.

And and that's what we That's what we can hope.

And, um, And to know that that all started with

you is a really, really amazing thing.

Okay, so that concludes everything for today.

I'll need you to go to, um, the Google form

assignment after you watch this and just complete a short

assignment for me.

And then you are free to go.

So until tomorrow, everybody enjoy your day and we'll see

you seem by

Bible Lesson 24.2 Prayer

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