My Prayers (Linton Hall Sermon)

Luke 11:1-13 CSB  – He was praying  in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”2 He said to them, “Whenever you pray, say,   Father,   , your name   be honored as holy.   Your kingdom come.   3 Give us each day our daily bread.   4 And forgive us our sins,   for we ourselves also forgive everyone in debt to us.   , And do not bring us into temptation.”   5He also said to them, “Suppose one of you   has a friend and goes to him at midnight and says to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread6because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I don’t have anything to offer him.’7 Then he will answer from inside and say, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’8 I tell you, even though he won’t get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his friend’s shameless boldness,   he will get up and give him as much as he needs.9 “So   I say to you, ask,   and it will be given to you. Seek,   and you will find. Knock,   and the door will be opened to you.10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.11 What father among you, if his son   asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

PRAYER RESETS OUR HEART POSTURE

Luke 11:2 CSB – He said to them, “Whenever you pray, say,   Father,   , your name   be honored as holy.   Your kingdom come.

PRAYER REORIENTS OUR TRUST

Luke 11:3 CSB – Give us each day our daily bread.

PRAYER REMINDS US HOW MUCH WE NEED GOD

Luke 11:4 CSB – And forgive us our sins,   for we ourselves also forgive everyone in debt to us.   , And do not bring us into temptation.”