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May 05, 2019

Thy Kingdom Come

Passage: Matthew 6:7-15

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: Sermon on the Mount

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: gratitude, kingdom, love, prayer, will

Prayer is our deepest, most powerful connector between us and the heart of God. It is a gift that is designed to simultaneously reveal us to ourselves while also miraculously (and I mean that literally) intertwine us to the Lord, His Kingdom, Will and Power. Though it most certainly includes laying our requests before God, the heart of the Lord’s Prayer centers around the beginning: “Our Father” as it reminds us of the power and care of God, and then fully orbits around “Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done,” which reminds us that His Kingdom coming is what is ultimately needed and desired as our personal requests are submissive to what is truly Kingdom Based.

Order of Worship

PRELUDE: USA Today - Amen

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 100:1-5 ESV

MUSIC

READING: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

CONFESSION & ASSURANCE (WSB - Section 2, 31)

LEADER: Merciful God, for all the things we have done that we regret

ALL: Forgive us

LEADER: For all the things we have failed to do that we regret

ALL: Forgive us

LEADER: For all the times we have acted without love

ALL: Forgive us.

LEADER: For all the times we have reacted without thought

ALL: Forgive us.

LEADER: For all the times we have withdrawn care

ALL: Forgive us.

LEADER: For all the times we have failed to forgive

ALL: Forgive us.

LEADER: For hurtful words, unhelpful actions, unfinished tasks and unfulfilled hopes

ALL: Forgive us.

LEADER: God of all love and great mercy

ALL: Forgive us we pray. And help us to lay down these burdens

and receive Your good news.  

MESSAGE: Thy Kingdom Come

CENTRAL TEXT: Matthew 6:7-15

7 “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. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Pray then like this:

“Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name.

10 Your kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread,

12 and forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

TESTIMONY: Compton's Prayer

RESPONSE: The Lord’s Prayer

ALL: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom come, Thy 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 Thine is the Kingdom

and the power and the glory

forever and ever Amen.

BENEDICTION: Galatians 1:3-5 ESV  

ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURES:

  • Job 21:15
  • Ecclesiastes 5:2
  • Psalm 32:6
  • Proverbs 30:18
  • Matthew 18:23-35
  • Luke 6:28
  • Luke 7:47-49
  • John 17
  • Ephesians 6:16-19

MEDIA:

5.05.19 Album

DISCUSSIONS QUESTIONS:

  1. Describe your prayer life.    
    1. Why is it like it is?
    2. What keeps us from deeper prayer?
  2. “Hallowed Father” - How is God being an intimate Father mixed with Him being a “hallowed” Lord impact our prayers?
  3. How do our prayers often look like “My Kingdom Come, My Will Be Done” instead of “Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done.”
  4. Should we still ask God for help in our regular lives?
  5. How can we do that while still submitting to His plan?
  6. Why don’t like “daily bread” (but lots of excess bread)?
  7. What are some multiple meanings of “bread”?
  8. Why are sins referred to as “debts”?
  9. How is repenting of our debts linked to forgiving others’?
  10. Why is it so hard to repent? ...and hard to forgive?
  11. How is it that we all have a perpetual need for Jesus to “keep us from” and “save us from”?
  12. Unpack this word “deliver” (or “rescue”)
    1. How is this actually agreeing that God has already sent us a Deliverer in Jesus?
    2. In this way, prayer is often more about intertwining our hearts with God’s than asking him to perform in certain ways.
  13. Spend time in prayer (instead of just talking about prayer).
  •    Adoration: What about God is amazing?
  •    Confession: How have you “forsaken” him as our hope?
  •    Thanksgiving: Thank God “from whom all blessings flow.”
  •    Supplication: Ask the Lord to supply us with “our daily bread”

QUOTES:

  • “I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God. It changes me.” - C.S. Lewis

  • “God always gives you what you would have asked for if you knew everything that He knows.” - Timothy J. Keller

  • “Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his Son's image.” - Paul Miller (A Praying Life)

  • “If prayer is anything, it is everything.” - Alexander Whyte

  • “. . .a man discovers the real condition of his spiritual life when he examines himself in private, when he is alone with God.” - David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  • But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself? Hunger may drive the runaway child home, and he may or may not be fed at once, but he needs his mother more than his dinner. Communion with God is the one need of the soul beyond all other need: prayer is the beginning of that communion, and some need is the motive of that prayer.” - George MacDonald

  • “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.” - C.S. Lewis

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