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 6, starting at verse 5, it's on page 970, Matthew's Gospel, chapter 6.

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 So Matthew 6, chapter 6, and reading from verse 5, and this is Jesus speaking.

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 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues

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 and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their

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 reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your

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 father who is unseen. Then your father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

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 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like the pagans, for they think they will be

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 heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your father knows what you need

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 before you ask him. This, then, is how you should pray. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

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 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread.

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 Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,

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 but deliver us from the evil one. For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly

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 father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your father will not forgive

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 your sins.

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 Well, prayer, it seems, is one of the hardest parts of our gathering together.

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 We not only find it difficult to pray in private, it seems that we find it more difficult to pray in

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 public. In fact, I would say it's the thing that we most struggle with as a church when it comes to

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 prayer. Because if we're asked to sing, well, we'll all sing together. That's not a problem. If we're asked

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 to read, we'll all read together. But if we're asked to pray, we're pretty much silent together.

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 Like me, we probably sit hoping that somebody else will pray, because I certainly can't. We just want

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 somebody to say something to break that awkward, embarrassing silence. Now, I don't think we're

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 unique in this, and it seems to be a struggle in lots of churches. We just find praying together

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 very difficult. Every one of us finds it hard to pray. So when it does come to our open times of

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 prayer, like the prayer time, or maybe it's communion, or in our home groups, or when we're with other

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 people, we struggle to pray because maybe we just don't know what we should be praying for.

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 Maybe we're afraid of saying the wrong things and getting our words round the wrong way.

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 Maybe we're wondering what others will think of what I'm saying. Perhaps we even feel too much of a

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 failure to pray. I can't talk to God. Look at the way my life was.

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 And I think these are all normal things that we all struggle with when it comes to

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 public prayer and also private prayer. But you say, why are you going on about public prayer?

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 Did Jesus not tell us that we were to pray in private? Look at verse 6.

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 He says, when you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father, who is

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 unseen, then your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. Well, there's a fair

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 point, isn't it? Seems like we're to pray in private. But I don't think it's actually ruling

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 out public praying. In fact, Jesus has been addressing those who are in the synagogue in

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 verse 5. He's talking to those who pray in church in a public way, and the problem is they're not

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 praying in a right way. So verse 5. He says, when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites,

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 for they love to pray standing in the synagogues or on the street corners to be seen by people.

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 It seems that Jesus, in verse 6, is directing us to pray in private so that we can learn how to pray

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 in public. That's why this prayer begins, verse 9, with our Father, not my Father. It's something we do

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 together. And that's why the prayer continues, verse 11. Give us, not give me. So quite clearly,

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 Jesus intends that his gathered people are to pray together. And we learn to pray in private

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 so that we can begin to pray in public. Our public praying is simply an overflow of our private praying.

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 So the problem is not really prayer, because it's a wonderful gift from God. The problem is our

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 approach, or perhaps our attitude, to what prayer is all about. Now this is not a beat-me-up-and-make-me-feel-bad

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 talk, because nobody ever benefits from feeling, being beaten up and going out thinking, oh, I've

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 got to pray better, and I'm such a bad prayer, and I've just got to do better, and well, we just feel

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 worse. And that does anybody no good at all. We need encouragement to pray. So what does Jesus teach

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 us about praying together? Well, the first thing is this, that prayer is a relationship. Before we even

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 open our mouths, we've got to come back to basics and understand that prayer is a relationship. Look

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 at verse 9. He says, this then is how you should pray, our Father in heaven. Prayer is like a child

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 to father conversation. Not a father who is a bully or who's unkind, who might leave us or reject us,

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 as some of our own parents, as we may have experienced that in our own lives. But here we're

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 talking of a father who treasures us, who accepts us, who values us, and who cares for us. A father,

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 look at verse 6, when he says, when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your

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 father who is unseen. Then your father who sees. In other words, he sees you. He sees your life. He knows

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 all about you. Verse 8, do not be like them, for your father knows what you need before you even ask him.

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 And verse 14, for if you forgive people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father also forgives you.

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 Jesus wants us to see that this relationship that he enjoys with his Father is also our Father.

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 Do you remember how we started our gathering this morning? We read these words from Ephesians,

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 once we were separate from Christ, without hope and without God, but now in Christ Jesus, you who are

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 once far away, have now been brought near. Through the death of Christ, through Christ, we both have access

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 to the Father. The writer there is picking up an image of what happened when Jesus died.

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 The Gospels record this for us, that at the moment when Jesus died, the curtain in the temple, so you can

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 imagine a big, big space like this, with a big, big curtain going across from one side to the other, as thick as my

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 hand. This was a great big barrier that divided between people and God, was ripped apart from top to bottom,

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 so that people could now enter into a living relationship. And if our trust and our faith is in Jesus, we also have

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 access to the Father. Prayer isn't a duty, it's not a performance, it's a child relationship, a conversation

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 with God our Father. But he is not just a Father in the sense of our earthly fathers. He is, look again at

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 verse 9, our Father in heaven. Heaven means he holds a certain position. So as Jesus taught this prayer, people were

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 used to addressing God as sovereign Lord and King of kings, something very grand and majestic. They understood

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 God as some supreme ruler with absolute power and authority, but yet he was distant and impersonal. You

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 couldn't really know him. But Jesus turns all that around and he says, our Father in heaven. Not that God has

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 somehow become less than supreme or somehow he's left some of his power behind. No, he's so much more than

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 that. He is our great king. He is sovereign, but he's our Father King. You may be familiar with this picture

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 up on the screen. Two people, John F. Kennedy sitting at his desk and John Jr. playing underneath.

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 Now putting politics aside, if we were just to look at JFK, we see a past president of America at his desk

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 in the Oval Office in the White House. One of the most powerful men of his time in the whole world.

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 At his command, at his word, armies would be deployed. Rules would be put in place. A position of great

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 power and influence. Now look at the child. There he is playing hide and seek, discovering the secret door,

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 which became famous in the Da Vinci Code, if you remember. He's just a kid playing around, enjoying

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 himself. To him, this is his home. It's not the control room of power.

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 Now put the two images together. Here we have a president with great authority, but he's also a father.

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 Here we have a child at home who's playing, but he's also in the Oval Office in the White House.

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 A child in a relationship with a father. How much more is our relationship with our father king?

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 The king who doesn't dwell in an Oval Office. The king of the universe, who rules the world with all its

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 peoples. The king who speaks and creation comes into existence. Who speaks and things happen. This is our

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 God. A God, a king who deserves our respect and demands our obedience, not just of a few people,

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 but the entire population of the world. A king who gave up his life, not just for a few years,

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 but sacrificed his life on the cross for us so that we can know him as father. So that we can enjoy an

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 intimate and personal relationship with God. You see, our prayer life is a reflection of our

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 relationship with our father. And at times, perhaps, that relationship can seem quite dysfunctional,

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 almost like our own human relationships. Somehow strained and distant. And although they're our

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 father, we kind of don't know what to say to them. And when we're in the same room, it's just kind of

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 like silence. And it's all very distant. But to see afresh that we are encouraged to come and talk to our

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 father in heaven. So prayer is a relationship to our father king. But how do we pray? What way do we come to

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 our father? Well, prayer is not about performance. It's all about grace. It's living out the grace of that

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 relationship. And I think there are two ways pointed out here that we can come to our father. The first one is that

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 we should come messy. Doesn't mean to say that we come in messy old clothes. You can if you want. But it's more about

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 our messy lives inside. Look at verse 5. When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray

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 standing in the church and on the street corners to be seen by people. You know, a hypocrite literally means

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 actor. In those days, in the Greek theatre, people would wear a mask, just a simple little mask on their face

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 as part of their performance. It helped them to take on the identity of the character they were playing. They were

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 simply called hypocrites. The Hollywood actors of the time, but without the big wage packets. Now Jesus is saying we need

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 to be careful that we don't, that when we pray, we don't become actors. That we don't put on a performance or give the

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 appearance that we are someone other than we really are. The hypocrites in the synagogue are the people in church

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 who put on a mask by their words to hide their true self. They say things that give an appearance that they are

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 someone other than what they actually are. And let's be honest. We can all be hypocrites in that

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 way. And what comes of those kind of prayers? Well, look at the rest of verse 5. I tell you the truth.

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 They have received their reward in full. The only answer we get from that kind of praying

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 is the recognition of others. We go home with the reward that we've actually tricked everybody into

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 thinking that we're someone than we really are. We've just tricked people. That's our only reward,

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 our only answer.

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 Now when we pray in public, we're not praying so that others begin to think of us in a certain way.

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 And we're not praying so that God thinks of us in a certain way. We're not out to try and get an

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 Oscar through our prayers. In fact, we're to pray like the gospel. You know what the gospel demands?

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 It demands that we take off our masks. That we take off that exterior that we put on. That we put

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 aside our performance and we come before God with all our sin and all our failures so that his grace

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 can begin to work deep within our lives. And it's simply no different when it comes to prayer.

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 We come to the Father in the same way. Messy. We don't hide our failures. We let him know that we

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 see and we know what we're really like. We come with all our mess and all the brokenness and all the

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 hurts and all the things that we are. Now that doesn't mean, in case you're getting scared,

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 that we have to publicly stand up and go through all the naughty little things we've done through

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 the week and let everybody know, I don't think it means that we have to do that. But it does mean

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 that we come with the right heart attitude. Just as the gospel never says to us, get your life sorted

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 first and then come to Jesus. The gospel always says, come as you are and he will sort you out.

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 So in the same way the Father says, never says, get your life sorted and then talk to me.

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 He says, no, come as you are. Come messy. When you pray, let him see you as you really are.

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 So, come messy. Second, we are to come helpless. Verse 7.

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 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because

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 of their many words. Now how many of us think that the longer we pray, the better the prayer?

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 I mean, if you prayed for 30 seconds, but then if you prayed for 10 minutes, do you think God would

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 kind of give you a little bit more? Would he be hearing you more and he'd take you more seriously?

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 Well, there's nothing spiritual about the amount of words or the length of time.

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 That says Jesus is all performance, all that babbling. It's just a show.

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 Jesus' model of prayer here is only 52 words. Don't go counting them. Do that at home. Take my word for it.

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 But who's counting anyway? It could only be five words. It doesn't really matter.

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 Again, the attitude is what counts. We are to come not with many, many words.

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 We are to come with an attitude and a heart of helplessness.

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 Look at verse 8. He says,

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 Do not be like them, those babblers.

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 For your father knows what you need before you ask him.

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 It's not about informing God as if he didn't know.

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 He already sees us and he knows about our life.

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 It's about showing God how helpless we are and that we're recognizing, we're saying to him,

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 I cannot do life on my own.

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 I just can't do life without you.

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 For all the pressures and all the things that I'm going to face this week,

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 I cannot do it on my own.

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 Thomas Merton was a monk.

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 People who went away and liked to be silent.

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 And in his silence, he thought about prayer and this is what he said.

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 Prayer is an expression of who we are.

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 We are a living incompleteness.

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 We are a gap, an emptiness that needs fulfillment.

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 I like that. We're a living incompleteness.

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 You see, when we come to our father,

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 we are not trying to get his attention by shouting at him with lots of old babble.

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 We are coming empty, incomplete,

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 recognizing that we cannot manage,

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 longing to receive what we need for life.

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 So when we pray, come helpless.

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 Come knowing that we can't do life on our own.

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 Now I think these two things,

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 there's something wonderfully liberating about coming messy and helpless.

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 It means we begin to talk to our father as we should.

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 Nobody's scoring our prayers.

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 It's not like come dine with me,

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 where everybody holds up a score out of one to ten.

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 We're not trying to get the best prayer award.

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 Nobody's taking notes.

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 We have come to talk to our father in heaven,

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 who welcomes us,

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 who's present with us.

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 He welcomes us to come as we are.

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 So what do we pray?

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 We've got an understanding of the attitude and the approach.

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 We come messy and helpless.

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 But what do we say?

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 Well, this is where we have this very well-known prayer of Jesus.

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 Although it's not so much a prayer of Jesus,

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 it's something, a model, a framework for his disciples,

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 for people like us.

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 And it's simply divided into two parts.

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 We're not going to go into it in too much detail,

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 but just unpack it to help us see how this could form a framework,

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 a model for how to pray.

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 The first three requests all relate to God and to his priorities.

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 Look at verse 9 again.

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 He says,

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 Our Father in heaven,

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 hallowed be your name.

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 Your kingdom come.

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 Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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 Very simple, isn't it?

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 Hallowed be your name.

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 It's not a request to make God holy because he already is holy.

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 It's a request that people would treat God as number one,

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 as the first, as the best, as the greatest.

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 We want people in our community, in our nation,

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 in our land, in our world,

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 to recognise that God is above all with supreme authority

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 and absolute power.

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 So we pray that God would take centre stage in everything.

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 Hallowed be your name.

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 Your kingdom come.

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 It's a desire to see the growth and the extension of God's kingdom.

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 It's not political.

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 It's not geographical.

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 It's a personal kingdom.

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 It's about his rule over individual lives.

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 And so when we pray your kingdom come,

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 we are praying that friends and family,

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 that we know that they would see and understand

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 the good news of God's kingdom

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 and that they would submit to him and turn to him.

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 We pray your kingdom come.

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 And we pray your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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 It's a longing to see God's rule worked out in our lives

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 and in our church family.

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 We want God's desires.

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 We want God's priorities.

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 We want God's wants to become ours.

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 When we pray your will be done on earth as it is in heaven,

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 we pray that the pattern of heaven

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 would also become the pattern of our hearts.

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 We pray that what God wants.

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 We pray that what God wants is what we want.

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 Three simple requests that shape and direct what to pray for

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 in relation to God and his priorities.

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 The second three requests all relate to each other,

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 to one another and to our needs.

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 Verse 11.

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 Let's read there.

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 Give us today our daily bread.

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 Forgive us our debts as we have forgiven our debtors.

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 And lead us not into temptation,

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 but deliver us from the evil one.

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 Give us today our daily bread.

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 It's not a request for something spiritual.

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 It's very practical.

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 It's about our physical needs for food,

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 for clothing,

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 for shelter,

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 for the basic provisions of day-to-day life.

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 And it's not only a request,

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 it's an expression of our complete and utter dependence on God.

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 It's so easy to go to the till and put the card in

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 and get money out or go to the cupboards

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 and get food out and think that we've provided it all.

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 No, it's an expression of complete dependence on God.

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 That everything that we have comes from him.

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 And so we ask of him.

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 We pray,

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 give us our daily bread.

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 We pray for our needs,

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 not our wants.

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 We pray for our necessities,

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 not our luxuries.

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 We pray for today.

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 Give us today.

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 Not for tomorrow.

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 For today.

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 And we will trust you

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 for what's tomorrow.

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 Then he says,

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 forgive us our debts or our sins

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 as we have also forgiven our debtors.

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 It's a recognition,

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 a helpful one,

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 that we mess up and we fail all the time

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 and need God's forgiveness,

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 grace and mercy all of the time.

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 But of course,

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 the experience of forgiveness

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 is tied to our forgiveness of others.

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 Look at verse 14.

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 It's unpacked for us there.

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 He says,

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 For if you forgive people

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 when they sin against you,

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 your heavenly Father

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 will also forgive you.

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 But if you do not forgive people

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 their sins,

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 your Father will not forgive your sins.

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 Now it's not that God won't forgive.

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 In this context,

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 it's that he can't forgive.

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 You see,

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 if we come to our Father

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 with open hands,

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 expecting to receive

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 grace and mercy

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 for all the things

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 that we've messed up on,

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 but yet then we turn away from God

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 and we clench our fists

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 and we hold back

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 the forgiveness

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 to those who have wronged us.

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 There's something not quite right.

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 The sign that we genuinely desire

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 God's forgiveness

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 is seen in our genuine desire

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 to forgive others.

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 And so we pray

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 to be forgiven.

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 And lead us not into temptation,

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 but deliver us from the evil one.

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 Again, it's not a request

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 that God would stop

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 leading us into temptation.

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 He doesn't do that.

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 Rather, this is a prayer

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 that he would keep us following

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 in the way of Christ.

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 It's a prayer

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 that Jesus would

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 satisfy us,

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 that he would fill us,

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 and that we wouldn't be people

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 who go looking to someone else

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 or something else

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 for our joy

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 and our contentment.

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 We pray to be free

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 from the devil's snares

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 and that we would be satisfied

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 ultimately in Christ.

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 That all that he has to offer

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 is sufficient.

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 So again,

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 three simple requests

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 that shape and direct

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 what to pray for

00:28:22.579 --> 00:28:23.980
 in relation to one another

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 and our needs.

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 So, prayer is hard, isn't it?

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 It's a struggle.

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 We all find it difficult.

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 But prayer is also a relationship

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 with our Father King

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 who invites us

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 to come messy

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 and helpless

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 to seek his priorities

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 and to receive

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 all of our needs.

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 We've been invited

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 to pray by our Father.

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 And so we can begin

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 the conversation

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 to pray for our church

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 using the new sheet.

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 inside in the new sheet

00:29:08.140 --> 00:29:09.160
 we put prayers

00:29:09.160 --> 00:29:10.980
 that you can be praying for

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 people and situations.

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 We've been talking

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 to each other

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 over tea and coffee.

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 We maybe didn't ask them

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 what can I pray for

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 but you probably

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 found out something

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 about their doing

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 or have done

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 and you can remember that

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 and pray that

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 for that person.

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 We can pray

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 that God's kingdom

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 will grow

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 as we seek to reach out

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 through the Christianity Explored.

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 And when we do

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 come together

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 to meet and celebrate

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 the Lord's Supper

00:29:41.059 --> 00:29:42.200
 communion together

00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:44.279
 we can pray

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 and give thanks

00:29:45.380 --> 00:29:46.039
 to Jesus

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 who's actually

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 made it possible

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 for us to have

00:29:49.460 --> 00:29:50.259
 a relationship

00:29:50.259 --> 00:29:52.319
 with our Father.

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 So let's enjoy

00:29:55.819 --> 00:29:56.740
 that relationship.

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 Let's not be thinking

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 about who's around us

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 but think of our Father

00:30:03.099 --> 00:30:06.019
 who knows all about us

00:30:06.019 --> 00:30:07.959
 who knows our needs

00:30:07.959 --> 00:30:09.480
 who invites us

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 come messy

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 come helpless

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 seek his priorities

00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:16.199
 and receive

00:30:16.199 --> 00:30:17.719
 all of our needs.

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 We're going to pray

00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:22.859
 together now.

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 We're not going to

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 sing a song

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 but we're going to

00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:27.679
 put into action

00:30:27.679 --> 00:30:28.699
 what we've been

00:30:28.699 --> 00:30:29.459
 thinking about.

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 We're going to

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 pray together.

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 So I'm going to

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 ask you to

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 turn to your new sheet.

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 If you haven't

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 got one

00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:42.519
 put your hand up

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 there's none left

00:30:43.259 --> 00:30:43.980
 there should be one

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 on the seat

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 or under the seat.

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 There's people

00:30:47.819 --> 00:30:48.579
 that we can be

00:30:48.579 --> 00:30:49.340
 praying for

00:30:49.340 --> 00:30:52.460
 situations

00:30:52.460 --> 00:30:53.319
 that we can be

00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:53.980
 praying for.

00:30:53.980 --> 00:30:56.440
 Now I'm not

00:30:56.440 --> 00:30:56.779
 going to be

00:30:56.779 --> 00:30:57.539
 chasing anybody

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 if you don't

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 pray audibly

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 it's okay

00:30:59.980 --> 00:31:02.539
 but if you can

00:31:02.539 --> 00:31:03.539
 there are people

00:31:03.539 --> 00:31:04.059
 who can

00:31:04.059 --> 00:31:06.279
 to pray together

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 to support

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 each other

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 as we pray.

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 Let me just

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 mention one

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 in particular.

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 It's mentioned

00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:15.880
 there the prayer

00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:17.640
 about Chris

00:31:17.640 --> 00:31:19.079
 on Wednesday

00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:19.519
 night.

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 And

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十

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 something

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 holds

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