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Teach us to pray

23/7/2016

 
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If  you could ask Jesus for only one thing I wonder what you might ask?  In our Gospel reading this morning the disciples ask Jesus to teach them perhaps the most important thing they could possibly have ever of asked of him.

“Lord teach us to pray!”

 They could have asked for wealth, they could have asked for riches, they could have asked fame but instead they chose to ask him for  something of even greater value.   “Lord, teach us to pray.”  They’ve been around Jesus for long enough to know that prayer was essential to everything Jesus did.  When Jesus prayed things  happened. When Jesus prayed the world was changed.  When Jesus prayed heaven seemed nearer. When Jesus prayed doors were opened and life somehow seemed to make a little more sense and when Jesus prayed, God always listened.

 “Lord teach us to pray!”

Jesus says, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come.  Give us each day our daily bread.  Forgive us our sins, as we forgive everyone who sins against us. and lead us not into temptation.   
Lord ,teach us to pray like that too.  To repeat the words of our collect this week; Lord,  help us so to seek that we may truly find, so to ask that we may joyfully receive, so to knock that the door of mercy may be opened for us;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen

Till next time. Andrew
 
Download this week's readings;   ​Hosea 1:2-10,  Psalm 85,  Colossians 2:6-15,  Luke 11:1-13

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    Anglican Parish of Mt.
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