We will focus this week on the fact that the prayer says we can refer to God as “Our Father.” This radical idea explodes all the ancient stereotypes of God. Only seven times in the Old Testament is God referred to as father. Jesus referred to God as father 150 times as reported in the New Testament. What we must first understand is that God is a PERSON, not a POWER.
Read “The Lord’s Prayer” as a group
When you think of God as a Father, what comes to your mind?(Give everyone time to reflect on this question, as some may not have had a great father/child relatioship) Does that match what we read in Psalm 103:13?
What endearing charasteristic does God our Father have according to James 1:17?
Read 2 Timothy 2:13 and share what it says is the reason God remains faithful.
- How often does God go back on his promises, according to Romans 11:29?
- Read Ephesians 3:20. How much is God able to do compared to what we can ask or imagine?
- When you were a child did you think your parents could fix anything or make any problem go away? That child-like faith is what we need today in our Heavenly Father. The difference is that our Heavenly Father is fully capable of overcoming any problem, no matter how big we think it is. What is the biggest problem you face today? What is keeping you from trusting God for the answer?