- Time, opportunity and Mission of the Gospel
- Greetings (v7-18)
- Prayer (v2-4)
- Wisdom (v5-7)
To see the gospel bear fruit in the Inner West and the World as we commit, grow, engage and send.
Sermons on Prayer
- Paul’s Prayer
- ‘For this reason’
- ‘To fill you with the knowledge of His will’
- Please the Lord
- Praying with Paul
- Prayer is Un-alone
- Prayer is Unceasing
- Prayer is Understanding
- Prayer is Unselfish
- God provides all our daily needs
- What if God doesn’t provide?
- Sometimes we endure hardship in order to avoid something worse (Exodus 13:17-18; Isaiah 57:1)
- Teaches us to rely on Him
- God’s purposes are bigger than us (Job)
- God’s creative power of redemption
- Calls on us to trust Him
- “My kingdom Come” is the problem
- “Your kingdom Come” is the solution
- We pray for God’s name to be hallowed
- This is the first prayer, our primary concern
- This is entirely right. God is worthy of all glory, honour, power and praise (Revelation 4:11)
- We are natural worshippers, this is what we were made for (Romans 1:18-25)
- This corrects our natural sinful prayer
- What does it mean to pray ‘Our Father’?
- What does it mean ‘Our Father in Heaven’?
- What does it mean to pray as children?
- Should not:
- Pray for show (v5-6)
- Thoughtless repetition (v7)
- Inform God (v8)
- Pray like this:
- Follow the topics in the Lord’s Prayer
- Reframe how we think about our problems and come to God with them
