Eagle's Landing First Baptist Church
Philippians 3:10 ESV
Matthew 6:9-13 ESV
PRAISE: APPROACHING OUR HOLY FATHER (v. 9)
“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.” 6:9
Galatians 4:4-7 ESV
John 1:12 ESV
Isaiah 66:1 ESV
“Hallowed be your name”
Psalm 145:3
“Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.”
Psalm 24:1-2
“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.”
PRIORITIES: SURRENDERING OUR WILL TO GOD’S WILL! (v.10)
“Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” 6:10
“Your kingdom come”
Romans 14:17
“For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”
“Your will be done”
PROVISION: ASKING FOR WHAT WE NEED (v.11)
“Give us this day our daily bread” 6:11
Matthew 6:33 ESV
Philippians 4:19 ESV
We fail to ask
James 4:2c
“…you do not have , because you do not ask”
We ask with wrong motives
James 4:3
“You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.”
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
LIVING IN THE JOY OF FORGIVENESS (v.12)
“And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors”. 6:12
Unconfessed sin blocks my communication with my Father.
Psalm 66:18
“If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.”
Confessed sin opens the door for my communication with my Father.
1 John I:9
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse from all unrighteousness.”
Matthew 6:14-15 ESV
PROTECTION: SEEKING SAFETY FROM HARM (v.13)
“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
Acrostic I learned years ago:
Adoration
Confession
Thanksgiving
Supplication