"How Is Your Prayer Life?" (Colossians 2:6-15, Luke 11:1-13)
Rev. Dr. Marjorie E. Nunes, July 28, 2019Part of the Sunday series, preached at a Sunday service
The Lord’s Prayer-Teach us to pray: Jesus’ prayer and the teaching that follows are mutually illuminating. Jesus invites his disciples into a deeply personal relationship with God, encouraging them to call upon God using the same name he uses -- Abba, Father. He invites his disciples to call upon God as children call upon a loving parent, trusting that they belong to God and that God wants for them what is good and life giving. Jesus’ sayings in 11:11-13 reinforce this invitation. If human parents, with all their faults, know how to give their children gifts that are good for them, how much more will the heavenly Father give good gifts to his children who ask of him, including and especially the gift of the Holy Spirit! And much more…
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