{"id":1426,"date":"2011-03-23T12:36:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T17:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2012-02-19T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T21:29:12","slug":"twirl-029-32111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/lessons\/twirl-029-32111","title":{"rendered":"TWIRL 029 (3\/23\/11): The Lord&#8217;s Prayer for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This Week In Recovery Lesson<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Lord&#8217;s Prayer for Life<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please begin this week&#8217;s lesson by reading <a title=\"Open Matthew 6 in Bible Gateway\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=matt%206&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Matthew chapter 6<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are definitely times when I find it difficult to pray. Sometimes I am so overwhelmed I cannot talk about it; I am without adequate words. There are times when I hurt too much in my heart to pray. There are times when I am very angry and will not pray. There are times when I don&#8217;t feel bad about my sin and feel too unworthy to pray. There are time when I am riddled with shame and in my worthlessness can&#8217;t pray. There are times when I am paralyzed by fear and don&#8217;t have the words to pray. There are times when I am in way too good of a mood to settle down in prayer. But if I am honest, as busy as I may be at times, I am really never too busy to pray; I simply choose not to. It is in the midst of my pride and my insecurities that I am most thankful that Jesus gave the following words of inspiration for powerful effective prayer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Our Father, who art in heaven,\u00a0hallowed be thy name.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thy Kingdom come,\u00a0thy will be done,\u00a0on earth as it is in heaven.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Give us this day our daily bread.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">And forgive us our trespasses,\u00a0as we forgive those who trespass against us. <\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">And lead us not into temptation,\u00a0but deliver us from evil. <\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">For thine is the kingdom,\u00a0the power and the glory,\u00a0for ever and ever. <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Amen.&#8221; <\/strong>Matthew 6:9-13<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why would you say that Jesus gave us these words to pray?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In considering the context of the entirety <a title=\"Open Bible Gateway web page for Matthew 6\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=matt%206&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Matthew Chapter 6<\/span><\/a>, who was Jesus talking to, and what would you say was the tenor of His narrative?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to this context, what would you say is the purpose of this, The Lord&#8217;s Prayer?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: normal;\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">&#8220;And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.\u00a0And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/strong>(Matthew 6:5-8) What would you say that was trying to communicate here about the kind of effective prayer that Father God listens and responds to?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jesus transitions in Matthew 6 from the context of giving to the needy, to praying for the needy, to our obsessions with our own needs and how we worry about what we need. What would you say He is intending to communicate with us?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What ground is The Lord&#8217;s Prayer covering? List what you can identify are the elements and issues targeted by it?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What would you say is the relevance of The Lord&#8217;s Prayer today?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please click on\u00a0<a title=\"Open TWRAC 029\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/twrap\/twrap-029-32311\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">TWRAC 029<\/span><\/a> for this week&#8217;s application challenge. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-via=\"StevieMG\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=TWIRL+029+%283%2F23%2F11%29%3A+The+Lord%27s+Prayer+for+Life\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/lessons\/twirl-029-32111\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Week In Recovery Lesson The Lord&#8217;s Prayer for Life Please begin this week&#8217;s lesson by reading Matthew chapter 6. 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