Jesus teaches us to pray with shameless boldness as if our Heavenly Father could not refuse. This message was given on January 18, 2015 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info visit: www.newcitychurch.ca

1. Shameless Boldness in Prayer
~ Luke 11:1-8 ~

2. God Gives Us His Words of Eternal Life
Luke 11:1-8
Found on page 869 in our guest Bibles.
Today’s Scripture:

3. prayer

4. “Dear God, I cannot
love You the way I want
to. You are the slim
crescent of a moon that
I see and my self is the
earth’s shadow that
keeps me from seeing
all the moon….
~ Flannery O’Connor
A Prayer Journal

5. “What I am afraid of,
dear God, is that my
self shadow will grow
so large that it blocks
the whole moon, and
that I will judge myself
by the shadow that is
nothing. I do not know
You because I am in
the way.”
~ Flannery O’Connor
A Prayer Journal

6. “Can’t anyone
teach me
how to pray?”
~ Flannery O’Connor
A Prayer Journal

7. Shameless Boldness in Prayer
~ Luke 11:1-8 ~

8. 1 The model of prayer
2 The motive of prayer
Be on the lookout for...

9. Now Jesus was praying in a certain
Luke 11:1
place, and when he finished, one of
his disciples said to him, “Lord,
teach us to pray, as John taught
his disciples to pray.”

10. “Dependency is the
heartbeat of prayer….
Jesus is, without question,
the most dependent
human being who ever
lived…. Jesus was the first
person who didn’t seek
independence. He wanted
to be in continuous
contact with his Father.”

11. And he said to them, “When you pray,
Luke 11:2-4
say, ‘Father, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come. Give us each
day our daily bread. And forgive us
our sins, for we ourselves forgive
everyone indebted to us. And lead
us not into temptation.’”

12. Father,
hallowed be
your name
1

13. Your
kingdom
come
2

14. Give us
each day
our daily bread
3

15. Forgive us
our sins4

16. Lead us
not into
temptation
5

17. And he said to them, “Which of you
Luke 11:5-7
who has a friend will go to him at
midnight and say to him, ‘Friend,
lend me three loaves, for a friend of
mine has arrived on a journey, and
I have nothing to set before him’;

18. not bother me; the door is now shut,
Luke 11:7-8
and my children are with me in bed.
I cannot get up and give you any-
thing’? I tell you, though he will not
get up and give him anything be-
cause he is his friend, yet…
“…and he will answer from within, ‘Do

19. “…because of his impudence he will
Luke 11:7-8
rise and give him whatever he needs.”

20. ESV: “impudence”
“shamelessly presumptuous”
NIV: “persistence”
=
“sheer audacity”
“shameless boldness”

21. “If God is for us, who
can be against us? He
who did not spare his
own Son, but gave
him up for us all, how
will he not also with
him graciously give us
all things?”
~ The Apostle Paul
in Romans 8:31-32

22. “Surely if he would not spare
His own Son one stroke, one
tear, one groan, one sigh, one
circumstance of misery, it can
never be imagined that ever
he should, after this, deny or
withhold from his people, for
whose sake all this was
suffered, any mercies, any
comforts, any privilege,
spiritual or temporal, which is
good for them.”
~ John Flavel
English Minister, 1627-1691

23. “Let us then with
confidence draw
near to the throne of
grace, that we may
receive mercy and
find grace to help in
time of need.”
~ Hebrews 4:16

24. Why does Luke record this
account in his historical
biography of Jesus?
Important Question

25. Jesus teaches us to pray
with shameless boldness
as if our heavenly Father
could not refuse.
Main Idea

26. 1
…your loving, heavenly Father
Pray dependently to…

27. Prayerlessness
is our declaration of
independence from God.
“
”
~ Anonymous

28. “If you are not praying,
then you are quietly
confident that TIME,
MONEY, and TALENT
are all you need in life….
If we think we can do life
on our own, we will not
take prayer seriously.”

29. “He came to his own,
but his own people did
not receive him. But to
all who did receive
him, who believed in
his name, he gives us
the right to become
children of God….”
~ The Gospel of John
1:11-12

30. Get real.
2
Bring the real you in
the midst of your real life
to your real heavenly Father

31. ~ Dr. Knox Chamblin

32. God answers prayer in 1 of 4 ways:
1 No, I love you too much.

33. God answers prayer in 1 of 4 ways:
1 No, I love you too much.
2 No, trust me. I love you.

34. God answers prayer in 1 of 4 ways:
1 No, I love you too much.
2 No, trust me. I love you.
3 Yes, but not yet.

35. God answers prayer in 1 of 4 ways:
1 No, I love you too much.
2 No, trust me. I love you.
3 Yes, but not yet.
4 Yes, why didn’t you ask sooner.
~ Knox Chamblin

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