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“The Model Prayer - Matthew 6:5-13 Pt. #1”
by Art Sadlier
November 20th, 2016

Prayer is a wonderful privilege given to the believer by God, but believers need to be taught to pray. The disciples said to Jesus, “Lord, teach us to pray...” Paul said, “We know not how to pray as we ought.” Here in Matthew 6 our Lord teaches us how to pray. He gives us a pattern prayer. It is an outline which we can use as a model for our prayers.

We learn four things about prayer.

1 – God’s Fatherhood in Prayer

“Our Father who art in heaven,” the believer can say, “Our Father.” Prayer begins with the recognition that God is our Father.

Only the believer can say that. Jesus said to the religious leaders in John 8:44, “Ye are of your father the devil.” To be religious does not make God your father.

John divides the world up into two categories. 1 – The Children of God. 2 – The Children of the Devil.

How does one become a child of God? Romans 3:23 says, “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Romans 5:12 says, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” All you have to do to be a child of Satan is to be born into Adam’s race. That is the bad news.

To become a child of God is very simple. John1:12, “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” Notice the right to be called the sons of God. You change families by being born again. Colossians 1:13, “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.” Notice what happens to the one who is born again, “In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins” (verse 14).

Also in Colossians 1:21-22, “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.”

I was in business for a number of years, but I got so excited about this message that I quit business and committed the rest of my life to telling people about; how to change families; about how to go to heaven.

Colossians 2:13-14, “And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.”

So the believer can look up to heaven and say, “Our Father.” The word for father here is “Abba” it is an intimate word meaning Daddy or Papa. The believer has a sweet intimate relationship with the Almighty, Sovereign Lord of the universe.

Question, do you have a sweet, intimate relationship with the Almighty, Sovereign God? Do you have a daddy- son relationship with God?

Matthew goes on to say, “Our Father who art in heaven.” Because God is in heaven and has all the resources of heaven at His disposal, He is able to answer every need we may bring to Him.

In our next study we will consider God’s priority in prayer.

Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13