Ask people how they're doing, and a common response is "Busy." Are you too busy to pray? Or is some other problem - like worry, doubt, wandering thoughts, or confusion about how to pray - stifling your prayer life? On August 15, Mike Osborne begins a 4-part sermon series on prayer. It is based on the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13. Mike will provide Biblical answers to questions about prayer and help you make prayer a vital part of your life.
This is the last of Mike Osborne's 4-part series on prayer, drawn from Matthew 6. In this sermon, Mike teaches on worry - what it is, why it's bad, and how to treat it. While we find ways to excuse worry, Jesus gives it no quarter. If you want to learn to pray, take your worries to Jesus.
In this sermon Mike Osborne draws from a wide range of Bible verses to show that prayer is the language of desire. If it's true that God cares about the desires of our hearts (Psalm 37:4), then believers should pay attention to their desires and voice them to God in prayer. Listen as Mike gives two reasons why our prayers are sometimes perfunctory and formal rather than alive with desire.
In this sermon, Mike Osborne explains the six petitions of the Lord's Prayer and shows how they serve as a simple pattern or model for prayer. If prayer seems difficult to you, discover how God has made himself easily accessible to all believers in Jesus.
This sermon, the first of four about prayer, is an encouragement for those of you who struggle with prayer because God seems far away and uninterested in you. Jesus teaches us in the Sermon on the Mount that all who trust in Jesus have a heavenly Father who loves to hear us pray. When you know your identity as a child of God, you will find prayer to be more of a delight than a duty, a blessing rather than a burden.