The Lord’s Prayer

Gracious heavenly Father, we come to You again, not merely because that’s what we normally do before a sermon, but because we really need Your help, I need Your help, that I would speak clearly, humbly, that Your Spirit would be at work to give unction and power to this Word, and we need help…

Let’s ask for the Lord’s help as we come before His Word. Father, help us to listen, open our ears. These are familiar words to many of us, but we don’t want our time to be an exercise in mere religious activity. Teach us, rebuke us, change us, inspire us, encourage us, lead us to…

Father in heaven, we have gathered here to sit under Your Word and we pray that we would not waste our time by distractions, by disobedience. Give us ears to hear, to obey. Help us whether we are thinking of these words for the first time or we have prayed these words 10,000 times. We…

O Lord, what a privilege it is that we can come to you in prayer, and we trust that we do not do so thoughtlessly, heartlessly, but genuinely. So we come before You now and ask that You would be so gracious as to speak to us. Give us ears to hear. If we walk…