Teach Us to Pray (Part 2): Praise Him!
Part of Sunday Sermon Notes—Message Notes
March 23, 2025
Matthew 6:9–13; Psalm 111:1-10 (ESV)
1) Praise Him for
!
- He is All-
- He is HOLY, HOLY, HOLY!
- All of who He is and what He does is perfect.
- He is all-perfect and deserves all praise!
- He is All-
Matthew 19:26
- “God is all-powerful and able to do whatever He wills. Since His will is limited by His nature, God can do everything that is in harmony with His perfections.” -Henry Thiessen.
- God can do all things that do not contradict His perfection or holiness!
- We never have to worry about God having good intentions but not being able to follow through.
- He is all-powerful and deserves all praise!
- “God is all-powerful and able to do whatever He wills. Since His will is limited by His nature, God can do everything that is in harmony with His perfections.” -Henry Thiessen.
- He is All-
Psalm 139:1–6
- There is nothing outside of God’s awareness!
- He knows all things in fact, deed, or concept. God has perfect perspective of all things.
- He has perfect awareness of all that is happening in your life in a way that is beyond even your own understanding.
- Only He fully knows and so you can trust Him fully!
- God is all-perceptive and deserves all-praise!
- There is nothing outside of God’s awareness!
- He is All-
Psalm 139:7–16
- God is fully present even if you don’t feel Him…He’s there!
- He is with us in our brightest moments, and He is with us in our darkness moments.
- He is with us in our most exciting times, and He is with us in the most average of times.
- No matter the place…no matter the circumstances…God is there.
- There is no place outside of His watchful eye and life-giving presence!
- God is all-present and deserves all-praise!
- God is fully present even if you don’t feel Him…He’s there!
- These things are all a part of His nature and who He is. He cannot and will not exist outside of these characteristics. He is never changing and therefore you and I should never cease to praise Him for who He is! In fact, He is so worthy of praise and adoration that if we were to cease to praise God, the rocks would cry out in praise because He is worthy of all-praise! (Luke 19:40)
2) Praise Him for
!
- He
Matthew 6:25–33
- God sees our greatest needs and graciously provides for them.
- The general providence of God is an expression of His character by which He provides for all of His creation what they need to survive.
- The specific providence of God is an expression of His character by which He provides for us what we need to thrive.
- As a result, I can trust God and stop aimlessly running after empty things so that I focus my life on what really matters: seeking after His kingdom and His righteousness.
- With gratitude and thankfulness we praise God for how He supplies for all of our physical, emotional, and spiritual needs!
- God sees our greatest needs and graciously provides for them.
- He
Ephesians 2:1–7
- Because of who God is, He provides for us what need to thrive…and what we need to thrive is Him!
- In our selfishness and pride, we have each turned from God and to our own inclinations of what we want to be right, but truth and righteousness are in God alone!
- Because or our sin, we separated ourselves from God and from real life so that we are dead in our sin…But God being rich in mercy and great love extends His grace to us through Jesus!
- He does for us what we cannot do for ourselves…He redeems us through His perfection and brings us from death to life!
- God doesn’t have to save us…He chooses to save us. He does not owe us anything, but out of His goodness and grace He extends to us mercy we do not deserve through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus!
- With gratitude and thankfulness we should endlessly praise God for His endless mercy and kindness in saving us through Jesus.
- Because of who God is, He provides for us what need to thrive…and what we need to thrive is Him!
- He
2 Timothy 1:8–12
- Not only does God save us through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, but He sustains that salvation through His divine power over death!
- Salvation in Jesus is solid and sure.
- If we are truly Jesus-followers, then we are secure in our salvation!
- As we abide in Him, we never have to worry about if our salvation will be lost…He is able to sustain and deliver us fully and securely in His glory!
- Jesus saves you…you don’t save you. If it is Jesus who saves, then it is Jesus who sustains.
- Alone, you have no power over sin, but in Jesus you are not alone…you are His and sin has no power over Him.
- The reason we still wrestle with sin is not because it has a hold on us, but because we are still holding on to it.
- The more we cling to Jesus, the less we will cling to sin and the less power it has in our lives.
- Temptation will still be there, but more we draw near to God the more we resist the evil one and he will have to flee from us. (James 4:7 “7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” )
- We are able to resist the devil, but Jesus’ sustaining power is solid and sure.
- With gratitude and thanksgiving we praise God for how He sustains us in His love and draws us near to Him through His Spirit.
- Not only does God save us through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, but He sustains that salvation through His divine power over death!
CLOSING
- As we learn to pray with purpose, let us start by purposefully praising Him and intentionally setting our minds upon who God is and what God does!
- Is He Your King?
- Let us not treat the God of the universe haphazardly, but let us draw near to Him!
- As you pray to the Lord, are taking the necessary time and effort to pray with purpose?
- Are you spending adequate time reflecting on Who God is and what God does?
- As we pray, let us be sure to spend time thinking about what it truly means to pray, “Our Father who is heaven, hallowed be Your name…”