Summit Church
The Kingdom Way Pt 8 | How to Pray Like Jesus | Jim Ladd
Locations & Times
Summit Church
7200 S Clinton St, Centennial, CO 80112, USA
Sunday 10:00 AM
The Big Idea: The way you pray reveals what you think about God.
How To Pray Like Jesus:
1. Pray Like You Mean It
If we pray like Jesus, our prayers will be radically affected in two ways:
First, God’s concerns will be given our highest priority.
Second, our own needs will be committed to His will.
1. Pray Like You Mean It
If we pray like Jesus, our prayers will be radically affected in two ways:
First, God’s concerns will be given our highest priority.
Second, our own needs will be committed to His will.
2. Cling to the Father Heart of God
God has always desired to be a Father to us.
God has always desired to be a Father to us.
But calling Him Father is not enough:
3. Crush the Devil
Forgiveness is as essential to the soul as food is to the body.
God’s forgives leads to repentance and the chief evidence of repentance is a forgiving spirit toward others.
Prayer like Jesus is God-centered rather than self-centered.
Prayer like Jesus is thoughtful rather than mechanical.
Prayer like Jesus is joyfully abandoned to God’s will.
Forgiveness is as essential to the soul as food is to the body.
God’s forgives leads to repentance and the chief evidence of repentance is a forgiving spirit toward others.
Prayer like Jesus is God-centered rather than self-centered.
Prayer like Jesus is thoughtful rather than mechanical.
Prayer like Jesus is joyfully abandoned to God’s will.
Response:
1. Spend some time with your Heavenly Father
2. Deal with your Forgiveness issues
3. Pray for your Oikos card daily
1. Spend some time with your Heavenly Father
2. Deal with your Forgiveness issues
3. Pray for your Oikos card daily
Community Group Discussion Guide
OPENER QUESTION:
Pick one possession you love and tell us what it is and why you love it.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
1. What does it mean to honor the name of God?
2. In what ways might you be guilty of mindless, meaningless prayers?
3. What are you pleased with or encouraged about in your own prayer life?
4. Jesus said that the Father already knows what you need before you ask Him. So why pray?
5. What does “our Father who is in Heaven, hallowed be your name” tell us about God?
6. In our self-centered world, we are often concerned about our own name, our own kingdom, and our own will, rather than God’s. How can we combat this tendency?
7. Why are we to pray for “daily bread”?
8 How does unforgiveness cause problems in our prayer lives?
9. James 1:2, 12-13
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone;”
If God cannot tempt us and trials are beneficial, what is the meaning of “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. ’” ?
10. How seriously do you take Matthew 6:14-15 concerning forgiveness?
Pray for one another using the Lord’s Prayer as a guide.
Pick one possession you love and tell us what it is and why you love it.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
1. What does it mean to honor the name of God?
2. In what ways might you be guilty of mindless, meaningless prayers?
3. What are you pleased with or encouraged about in your own prayer life?
4. Jesus said that the Father already knows what you need before you ask Him. So why pray?
5. What does “our Father who is in Heaven, hallowed be your name” tell us about God?
6. In our self-centered world, we are often concerned about our own name, our own kingdom, and our own will, rather than God’s. How can we combat this tendency?
7. Why are we to pray for “daily bread”?
8 How does unforgiveness cause problems in our prayer lives?
9. James 1:2, 12-13
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone;”
If God cannot tempt us and trials are beneficial, what is the meaning of “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. ’” ?
10. How seriously do you take Matthew 6:14-15 concerning forgiveness?
Pray for one another using the Lord’s Prayer as a guide.