Reminder: Warnings from Matthew 6:5-15

• Do not pray with a motive of love of self and the reward of others’ praise; Instead pray like Christ who is motivated by love of His Father and the Father’s reward
• Do not pray by using meaningless repetition; Instead pray with a knowledge of the character of God
• Prayer with a lack of forgiveness toward others

This Prayer as Model Not Liturgy, “Pray, then, in this way”

Prayer and God’s Glory

• Intimacy with God as Our Father
• The holiness of God as we request that His name be hollowed
• The priorities of God as we pray with His kingdom and will in our priorities

Prayer and Our Needs

• Physical needs: “give us daily bread”
• Spiritual needs: “forgive us”
  • The Need for guidance and protection: “lead us…deliver us…”
    • Having been forgiven, now we seek a path away from sin
    • This attitude avoids presumption for future sin
    • It acknowledges the weakness of the heart to go into temptation
    • Like a husband who says to his faithful wife, “Don’t ever leave me.”
    • Guidance: lead us not into temptation (See I Kings 3:6-9, Psalm 1:1-3, Proverbs 3:5-6, Matthew 26:40-41, James 1:5-8)
    • It acknowledges the weakness of the person to be destroyed by the Devil
    • Protection: deliver us; from evil or from the evil one

(See Matthew 4:1-11, I Peter 5:6-11)