The Lord's Prayer-Sermon

Kowloon International Baptist Church - Dr. David Dean's sermon titled "The Lord's Prayer" delivered on 12 May 2024. Please visit us at: www.hkkibc.org
Sermon Notes:
The Areas of Concern in the Lord’s Prayer
What God wants and deserves: The focus is upward.
What we need as individuals: The focus is inward.
Our relationships with other people: the focus is outward.
* Six Petitions in the Lord’s Prayer
1) Hallowed be Your name.
2) Your kingdom come.
3) Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
4) Give us this day our daily bread.
5) Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
6) Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
* Four Applications from the Lord’s Prayer
1) Jesus has give us a pattern for praying, not a fixed prayer that must be recited by rote.
2) In the Lord’s Prayer, we express our desire that God should be treated with appropriate reverence.
3) Our prayers should focus on God’s desires and God’s plans as well as our own needs.
4) In many cases, we have a role to play in answering our own prayers.