Sermon Slide Deck: "Shameless Boldness In Prayer" (Luke 11:1-8)

Shameless Boldness in Prayer ~ Luke 11:1-8 ~

God Gives Us His Words of Eternal LifeLuke 11:1-8

Found on page 869 in our guest Bibles.

Today’s Scripture:

prayer

“Dear God, I cannot love You the way I want

to. You are the slim crescent of a moon that I see and my self is the

earth’s shadow that keeps me from seeing

all the moon….~ Flannery O’Connor

A Prayer Journal

“What I am afraid of, dear God, is that my

self shadow will grow so large that it blocks the whole moon, and

that I will judge myself by the shadow that is nothing. I do not know

You because I am in the way.”

~ Flannery O’Connor A Prayer Journal

“Can’t anyone teach me

how to pray?”

~ Flannery O’Connor A Prayer Journal

Shameless Boldness in Prayer ~ Luke 11:1-8 ~

1 The model of prayer

2 The motive of prayer

Be on the lookout for...

Now Jesus was praying in a certain

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place, and when he finished, one ofhis disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taughthis disciples to pray.”

“Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer….

Jesus is, without question, the most dependent

human being who ever lived…. Jesus was the first

person who didn’t seek independence. He wanted

to be in continuous contact with his Father.”

And he said to them, “When you pray,

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say, ‘Father, hallowed be your name.Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. And forgive usour sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. And leadus not into temptation.’”

Father, hallowed be your name

1

Your kingdom

come2

Give us each day

our daily bread3

Forgive us our sins4

Lead us not into

temptation5

And he said to them, “Which of you

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who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend ofmine has arrived on a journey, andI have nothing to set before him’;

not bother me; the door is now shut,

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and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you any-thing’? I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything be-cause he is his friend, yet…

“…and he will answer from within, ‘Do

“…because of his impudence he will

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rise and give him whatever he needs.”

ESV: “impudence”

“shamelessly presumptuous”

NIV: “persistence”

=

“sheer audacity”

“shameless boldness”

“If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his

own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with

him graciously give us all things?”

~ The Apostle Paul in Romans 8:31-32

“Surely if he would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that ever he should, after this, deny or withhold from his people, for

whose sake all this was suffered, any mercies, any

comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is

good for them.”

~ John Flavel English Minister, 1627-1691

“Let us then with confidence draw

near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and

find grace to help in time of need.”

~ Hebrews 4:16

Why does Luke record this account in his historical

biography of Jesus?

Important Question

Jesus teaches us to pray with shameless boldness as if our heavenly Father

could not refuse.

Main Idea

1

…your loving, heavenly Father

Pray dependently to…

Prayerlessness is our declaration of

independence from God.“

”~ Anonymous

“If you are not praying, then you are quietly confident that TIME, MONEY, and TALENT

are all you need in life…. If we think we can do life on our own, we will not take prayer seriously.”

“He came to his own, but his own people did not receive him. But to

all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gives us the right to become children of God….”

~ The Gospel of John 1:11-12

Get real. 2

Bring the real you in the midst of your real life

to your real heavenly Father

~ Dr. Knox Chamblin

God answers prayer in 1 of 4 ways:

1 No, I love you too much.

God answers prayer in 1 of 4 ways:

1 No, I love you too much.

2 No, trust me. I love you.

God answers prayer in 1 of 4 ways:

1 No, I love you too much.

2 No, trust me. I love you.

3 Yes, but not yet.

God answers prayer in 1 of 4 ways:

1 No, I love you too much.

2 No, trust me. I love you.

3 Yes, but not yet.

4 Yes, why didn’t you ask sooner.

~ Knox Chamblin

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