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Luke 11:1 Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when
He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray,
as John also taught his disciples.”‘
Luke 11:2 So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth
as it is in heaven.
Luke 11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
Luke 11:4 And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted
to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”
Sermon Series: Lord, Teach Us To Pray
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In Luke 3:21 — Jesus praying at his baptism.
In Luke chapter 4– Jesus is praying through His temptation.
In Luke 5:15-16, Luke tells us that Jesus often got off alone to pray;
In Luke 6:12 Luke reveals that before Jesus chose his disciples he spent the
night before praying
In Luke 9:28, Luke says Jesus took Peter, John, and James and went up on the
mountain to pray.
In Luke Chapter 11, the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray.
In Luke 18:1, Luke tells us that Jesus spoke a parable to them, that men always
ought to pray and not lose heart,
In Luke 22:32, Jesus promises Peter he’ll pray for him during his hour of trial
In Luke 22:40–Jesus commands his disciples to pray so they will not fall into
temptation;
And in Luke 23:46–Luke shows us that Jesus’s last breath at the hour of his
death was a prayer.
There are 667 recorded prayers in the Bible and 454 direct mentions of answers
to those prayers.
Psalm 18:6 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried out to my God;
He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry came before Him, even to His ears.
Psalm 50:15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall
glorify Me.
Psalm 65:2 O You who hear prayer, to You all flesh will come.
Psalm 91:15: He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in
trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.
Psalm 145:18: The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon
Him in truth.
Luke 11:1 Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when
He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray,
They recognized that prayer was the key to everything.
I. PRACTICAL PRAYER: PRAY OUT LOUD.
Luke 11:2 So He said to them, “When you pray, say:
Acts 8:30 So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and
said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
II. PERSONAL PRAYER: SWEET HOUR OF PRAYER.
Paul Miller writes, “If you are not praying (is this you? Do you struggle to maintain
a robust prayer life? Here’s your diagnosis), then you are quietly confident that
time, money, and talent are all you need in life. You’ll always be a little too tired,
a little too busy to pray. But if, like Jesus, you realize you can’t do life on your own,
then no matter how busy, no matter how tired you are, you will find the time.”
Psalm 55:17 Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, And He
shall hear my voice.
Daniel 6:10 Now when Daniel … he went home. And in his upper room, with his
windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that
day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since
early days.
III. POWERFUL PRAYER: GOD ANSWERS PRAYER.
1 Kings 18:36 And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice,
that Elijah the prophet came near and said, “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Israel let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant,
and that I have done all these things at Your word.
1 Kings 18:37 Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that You are
the Lord God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again.”
1 Kings 18:38 Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and
the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench.
Daniel 9:20 Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the
sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my
God for the holy mountain of my God,
Daniel 9:21 Yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had
seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached me
about the time of the evening offering.
Acts 2:1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord
in one place.
Acts 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty
wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
Acts 2:3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat
upon each of them.
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to
them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you,
and heed my words.
Acts 2:15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour
of the day.
Acts 3:3 Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer,
the ninth hour.
Acts 3:7 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately
his feet and ankle bones received strength.
Acts 10:1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of
what was called the Italian Regiment,
Acts 10:2 A devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who
gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always.
Acts 10:3 About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of
God coming in and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
Acts 10:9 The next day, as they went on their journey and drew near the city,
Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour.
God put all of these times in His holy Word for a reason — to show us that
there is power in prayer.
Psalm 5:3 My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; In the morning I will
direct it to You, and I will look up.
IV. PERPETUAL PRAYER: PRAY WITHOUT CEASING.
1 Thessalonains 5:17 Pray without ceasing,
Psalm 16:8 I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand
I shall not be moved.
Acts 17:27 So that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope
for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;
The golden altar of incense pictures prayers to God.
Exodus 30:1 “You shall make an altar to burn incense on;
Leviticus 6:12 And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not be
put out …”
Leviticus 6:13 A fire shall always be burning on the altar; it shall never go out.
1 Corinthians 6:19 “… Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy
Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God,…”
Psalm 141:2 “Let my prayer be set before You as incense,..”.
Hebrews 7:25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who
come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
1 Samuel 12:23, “God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to
pray for you”.
Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty
things, which you do not know.’
Psalm 62:5 My soul, wait silently for God alone, For my expectation is from Him.
