Last week we began looking at the Lord’s Prayer. This prayer is more than a repetition, it’s a template for ho we are to pray.

The prayer begins with a request and then follows with six petitions that put our priorities in order. The first three petitions focus on the preeminence of God [supremacy & sovereignty]. While the final three focus on our personal needs in a community context.

Here’s what we know about Our Father:

• This title was foreign to those listeners then but should be common to us. 


• We are to come to Him knowing His love for us and His never ending compassion; Not only is He ready to hear our prayers but He is always ready to come to our help.


• And because He’s our Father we should not hesitate to approach Him but we often fail to do so. 

We doubt, worry and we fail to trust Him fully and completely even though He is sovereign over all things. We forget that he holds the world and all that is in it in his hand. This is what sets him apart from us and all other creatures, and should warns us of how we think about Him because he is higher than the whole world. 

So, Christ, in teaching His followers how to pray, He wanted to establish the disciples’ trust in God’s goodness and power. And unless our prayers are rooted in that same kind of faith, they do us no good.

In this message we'l look at God's word to see His provision, His protection as well as His deliverance.