Christ's Model Prayer - 3/23/08am

Christ’s Model Prayer

We often discuss how we should pray and what we should pray about. It can be useful to look to our ultimate example, Christ, and see what He taught on prayer. And of course, a good place to start with that is the example prayer that He showed to his disciples.

Matthew 6:5-15 -Christ’s model prayer
This prayer, and the context surrounding it, helps us to understand how we are to pray, and what we are to pray.

How to Pray:
Matthew 6:5-6 -Not for public acclaim
Matthew 6:7-8 -Not babbling or using many words
-God knows what we need before we ask

The Model Prayer:
This prayer shows us different aspects of prayer, and different types of prayer

Matthew 6:9 -Pray to God the Father

Matthew 6:9 -Praise to God
James 3:9-12 -With the tongue we praise the Lord
I Peter 1:23-9 -Why we praise God
A Form of praise is offering thanksgiving to God for the things He has done. This is the recognition of who has provided for us all that we need, and a recognition of where the glory for it belongs.
I Thessalonians 5:16-18 -Pray continually, giving thanks
Philippians 4:4-7 -Present all prayers with thanksgiving

Matthew 6:10 -The kingdom is already here, now
Matthew 16:28 -The kingdom came in the 1st century
Colossians 1:12 -The kingdom

Matthew 6:10 -The Lord’s Will, not our own
Matthew 26:42 -Let this cup pass from me…

Matthew 6:11 -Asking for what we need in life
Ephesians 6:17 -All kinds of prayers and requests
I Timothy 5:5 -Putting reliance on God
James 4:1-3 -Asking with the right motives
James 5:13-16 -Prayer for when in trouble or sick
I John 5:14-15 -When we ask, God hears us


Matthew 6:12 -Asking for forgiveness
Acts 8:18-24 -Simon the Sorcerer
Psalm 51 -David’s Psalm/prayer of repentance

Matthew 6:13 -Asking for deliverance from temptation
James 1:13-15 -Tempted by evil desires, not by God
I Corinthians 10:13 -God will provide a way of escape

God Answers Prayers
Genesis 25:21 -God answers Isaac’s prayer
I Chronicles 14:10 -God answers David’s prayer