New 2 Faith: You DO Have A Prayer!Sample

“God’s Model for Effective Personal Prayer”

The Lord’s Prayer is one of the most recognized verses in the Bible. Most people have committed the Lord’s Prayer to memory, or would at least recognize it upon hearing it. Jesus instructed his disciples:

“This then is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’” Matthew 6:9-13

The Lord’s Prayer is one of the most recited prayers even to this day. But when Jesus gave these precious words to his disciples, His intentions went well beyond providing an effective prayer for us to memorize. He gave us an important framework to base all our prayers upon.

Think for a moment about what tends to limit you when you pray, and or what barriers to prayer you have. Maybe you have a tendency to focus on yourself too much. Perhaps you are easily distracted during prayer, or even tend to nod off. These are common problems all of us experience from time to time.

The Lord’s Prayer provides a basis to overcome these tendencies and barriers when broken down into the components that follow in the next sections.