This message was given on October 4, 2015 at New City Church in Calgary by our guest speaker Johnny Thiessen of the C2C Church Planting Network.

1. “Prayer Reminders - The Whom, the
why and the way we are to pray”
Matthew 6:9-13

2. What is prayer?

3. “I don’t have time”

4. “God is mad at me, He answers
other’s prayers but not mine!”

5. “God is too busy, to answer my
prayers!”

6. “I don’t know how!”

7. “Does prayer really work?”

8. “God does not answer my
prayers, I don't think He likes
me very much?”

9. “I am not any good at praying”

10. “Do I have to pray?”

11. “I want to see God answer
prayer, like stories I have
heard.”

12. What is Prayer?
“Prayer is not overcoming God’s
reluctance, but laying hold of His
willingness”
Martin Luther

13. Three Questions on prayer…
“pray then like this”
Jesus

14. Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name. Your kingdom
come, your will be done, on earth as it is in
heaven. Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts, as we also have
forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Matthew 6:9–13

15. Question 1.
What is the Posture of Prayer?

16. We need to understand
who we are and
who God is.
He is our Father
who is in Heaven

17. “The eyes of the Lord are
toward the righteous and his
ears toward their cry.”
(Psalm 34:15, ESV)e n

18. We pray in a love relationship!
“Or which one of you, if his son asks him for
bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a
fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are
evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father who is in heaven
give good things to those who ask him!”
(Matthew 7:9–11, ESV)

19. “Hallowed be your name”
“What does “hallowed be thy name” ask for? God’s “name” in
the Bible regularly means the person he has revealed himself
to be. “Hallowed” means known, acknowledged, and
honoured as holy. “Holy” is the Bible word for all that makes
God different from us, in particular his awesome power and
purity. This petition, then, asks that the praise and honour of
the God of the Bible, and of him only, should be the issue of
everything..”
Theologian J.I. Packer

20. “And one called to another and said:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!”
(Isaiah 6:3, ESV)
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21. “A genuine concern and love for God’s
name always leads us to pray for and serve
all those who bear His image and carry His
name. Praise of God leads to prayer for
people”
John Smed
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22. Question 2.
What is the Purpose of Prayer?

23. “Your Kingdom come,
your will be done”

24. It’s not about us!

25. Question 3.
What is the Position of answered prayer?

26. How do we position ourselves for God to
work through us?

27. “There is no such thing as unanswered
prayer.”
Tim Keller quoting J I Packer

29. “You ask and do not receive, because you
ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.”
(James 4:3, ESV)

30. “What should we ask for?”

31. “Give us this day our daily bread, and
forgive us our debts, as we also have
forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from evil.”

32. What should we ask our
Heavenly Father for?
-daily bread - our needs
-our own forgiveness
-power to forgive others
-deliverance from evil

33. The question is not whether God shows
up, its about whether we stand down.

34. Do I have to pray? No...We get to pray!
Wrong question, how can I do anything if I
don’t pray.
Jesus said “apart from Him”
we can do nothing! John 15:5

35. If we are not seeing answered prayer, then
either we are missing what God is doing, or
we are believing an allusion that we are living
without the need of God’s help and
intervention.

36. Where do you need help?

37. How would your prayer life change if you
really believed you were praying as a
dearly loved child to a good and loving
Father?