
COMPLETED: OUR FATHER: WORDS YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW: Everyday Lordship
April 28, 2020
OUR FATHER: WORDS YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW
Everyday Lordship
April 26, 2020
Big idea: The Lord’s prayer is not something that you just pray: it’s a
prayer that you actually live.
Sources of stress:
• Unexplainable PAIN
• Uncooperative PEOPLE
• Uncontrollable CIRCUMSTANCES
This part of the prayer is not so much a prayer asking God to do something as it is a prayer asking that we would do something.
Matthew 6:9-10 – “This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. ‘”
Surrendering to Jesus means:
1. Letting go of CONTROL.
Psalm 46:10 - “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Two extremes:
1. Try harder to control it.
2. You give up.
The Serenity Prayer
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time accepting hardship as a pathway to peace taking as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to your will so that I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
2. Learning to be CONTENT.
Situations that you cannot change:
• You can worry about it.
• You can resent it and get bitter about it.
• You can feel guilty about it.
• You can have self-pity about it.
• You can be fearful and worry about it.
OR ACCEPT it and learn to be content with it.
Philippians 4:11-13 - I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13 I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
Notice two things:
A. It’s a CHOICE.
“learned”
B. It is ONLY possible through Christ’s strength.
“I can do everything through him who gives me strength”
Psalm 37:7a - “Surrender yourself to the Lord, and wait patiently for him.” (GW)
3. Leaving the future to GOD.
Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Psalm 37:18-19 - The days of the blameless are known to the Lord, and their
inheritance will endure forever. 19 In times of disaster they will not wither; in days
of famine they will enjoy plenty.
Next Steps:
1. Plan on joining us next week online.
2. Download the “Beyond Sunday Devotion.”