Spirit help us pray lesson 8
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Spirit help us pray lesson 8
- 1. “ The Spirit Helps Us To Pray” A Biblical Theology of Prayer
- 2. Lesson 8 Christ’s Teaching on Prayer
- 23. Next Week Lesson 9 Prayer in Early Church Chapters 9 & 10
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Opening prayer
- Opening: Andrew Murray: ‘Lord, teach us to pray .’ Yes, to pray. This is what we need to be taught. Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple that the feeblest child can pray, yet it is at the same time the highest and holiest work to which man can rise. It is fellowship with the Unseen and Most Holy One. The powers of the eternal world have been placed at its disposal. It is the very essence of true religion, the channel of all blessings, the secret of power and life. Not only for ourselves, but for others, for the Church, for the world, it is to prayer that God has given the right to take hold of Him and His strength. It is on prayer that the promises wait for their fulfilment, the kingdom for its coming, the glory of God for its full revelation. And for this blessed work, how slothful and unfit we are. It is only the Spirit of God that can enable us to do it aright. How speedily we are deceived into a resting in the form, while the power is wanting. Our early training, the teaching of the Church, the influence of habit, the stirring of the emotions—how easily these lead to prayer which has no spiritual power, and avails but little. True prayer, that takes hold of God’s strength, that availeth much, to which the gates of heaven are really opened wide—who would not cry, Oh for some one to teach me thus to pray? Murray continues: Jesus has opened a school, in which He trains His redeemed ones, who specially desire it, to have power in prayer. Shall we not enter it with the petition, Lord! it is just this we need to be taught! O teach us to pray.
- Introduce Lord’s Model Prayer – not as some rote recitation of words but as (After prayer) Brandt & Bickel give us this quote to consider as we contemplate Jesus words to remain (abide) in Him (see page 210). They say that the Christian norm should be: “The believer remaining in Christ, and Christ’s Word remaining in the believer.” And that is our task tonight as we look at a number of Jesus statements and unpack the depth of these few short words that contain the “true philosophy of prayer.”
- Introduce Lord’s Model Prayer – not as some rote recitation of words but as (After prayer) Brandt & Bickel give us this quote to consider as we contemplate Jesus words to remain (abide) in Him (see page 210). They say that the Christian norm should be: “The believer remaining in Christ, and Christ’s Word remaining in the believer.” And that is our task tonight as we look at a number of Jesus statements and unpack the depth of these few short words that contain the “true philosophy of prayer.”
- (Before slide) Brandt and Bickel make this observation: “The spiritual force of symphonizing or harmonizing human spirits is incomprehensible.” In other words, the spiritual force of praying in agreement is powerful beyond imagination. This could certainly be one of the reason why Jesus began this model prayer with this implied agreement of “Our”.
- Acts 2:44 is as much a picture of the 1 st Church as it is a picture of the Consummation. So we need to look back on the lessons of the Acts 2 church and forward to the New Heaven and New Earth. When we do so we can better understand the “Our” Jesus taught us to pray with.
- (before slide) Andrew Murray had this to say about the opening of our model prayer: ‘ Our Father which art in heaven! ’ To appreciate this word of adoration aright, I must remember that none of the saints had in Scripture ever ventured to address God as their Father. The invocation places us at once in the centre of the wonderful revelation the Son came to make of His Father as our Father too. The words are the key to the whole prayer, to all prayer. It takes time, it takes life to study them; it will take eternity to understand them fully. The knowledge of God’s Father-love is the first and simplest, but also the last and highest lesson in the school of prayer. It is in the personal relation to the living God, and the personal conscious fellowship of love with Himself, that prayer begins.” Knowing God as Father should serve to increase our faith; for then He is not some distant deity to which we pray but rather someone with whom we are in close relationship. Knowing God as Father increases the effectiveness of our praying. (Review slide)
- When you think of heaven what comes to mind?
- The American Heritage Dictionary defines hallowed as, "sanctified; consecrated; highly venerated; sacrosanct," like the hallowed halls of a great university. To hallow is "to make or set apart as holy. To respect or honor greatly; revere." In simpler terms, we often use hallowed to refer to someone whom we should treat with awe and respect because they deserve it. We now have the full opening sentence of the Lord’s prayer. John Wesley said of this: “The preface, Our Father, who art in heaven, lays a general foundation for prayer, comprising what we must first know of God, before we can pray in confidence of being heard. It likewise points out to us our that faith, humility, love, of God and man, with which we are to approach God in prayer. Our Father - Who art good and gracious to all, our Creator, our Preserver; the Father of our Lord, and of us in him, thy children by adoption and grace: not my Father only, who now cry unto thee, but the Father of the universe, of angels and men: who art in heaven - Beholding all things, both in heaven and earth; knowing every creature, and all the works of every creature, and every possible event from everlasting to everlasting: the almighty Lord and Ruler of all, superintending and disposing all things; in heaven - Eminently there, but not there alone, seeing thou fillest heaven and earth. Hallowed be thy name - Mayest thou, O Father, he truly known by all intelligent beings, and with affections suitable to that knowledge: mayest thou be duly honoured, loved, feared, by all in heaven and in earth, by all angels and all men.”
- (Before slide) More Murray: Christ has opened the school of prayer specially to train intercessors for the great work of bringing down, by their faith and prayer, the blessings of His work and love on the world around. There can be no deep growth in prayer unless this be made our aim.”
- Acts 28:31 says of Paul - Boldly and without hindrance he preached the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.
- (After slide) Murray: “Because the will of God is the glory of heaven, the doing of it is the blessedness of heaven. As the will is done, the kingdom of heaven comes into the heart. And wherever faith has accepted the Father’s love, obedience accepts the Father’s will. The surrender to, and the prayer for a life of heaven-like obedience, is the spirit of childlike prayer.”
- (Before slide) Murray: “Consecration to God and His will gives wonderful liberty in prayer for temporal things: the whole earthly life is given to the Father’s loving care.”
- The scariest words in this prayer are the words ‘as we.’ We understand that God wants to forgive us our sins; he showed that by sending his son to die for us. We also can come to grips with the idea that we are supposed to forgive others, as hard as that may be. But things get serious when we put in the words ‘as we.’ We are asking, in this prayer, for God to forgive us in exactly the same way as we forgive those who wrong us.
- (After slide) Murray: Such forgiveness, as a living experience, is impossible without a forgiving spirit to others: as forgiven expresses the heavenward, so forgiving the earthward, relation of God’s child. In each prayer to the Father I must be able to say that I know of no one whom I do not heartily love.
- (Before slide) Murray: “Our daily bread, the pardon of our sins, and then our being kept from all sin and the power of the evil one, in these three petitions all our personal need is comprehended. The prayer for bread and pardon must be accompanied by the surrender to live in all things in holy obedience to the Father’s will, and the believing prayer in everything to be kept by the power of the indwelling Spirit from the power of the evil one.”
- (Closing) Murray: “Children of God! it is thus Jesus would have us to pray to the Father in heaven. O let His Name, and Kingdom, and Will, have the first place in our love; His providing, and pardoning, and keeping love will be our sure portion. So the prayer will lead us up to the true child-life: the Father all to the child, the Father all for the child. We shall understand how Father and child, the Thine and the Our , are all one, and how the heart that begins its prayer with the God-devoted THINE, will have the power in faith to speak out the OUR too. Such prayer will, indeed, be the fellowship and interchange of love, always bringing us back in trust and worship to Him who is not only the Beginning but the End: ‘FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY, FOR EVER, AMEN.’ Son of the Father, teach us to pray, ‘OUR FATHER.’