Lord, Teach Us To Pray | Week 6 - James Sharp

Over eight weeks, we will consider the substance of the Lord’s Prayer - prayerfully seeking to infuse that substance into our own prayers. We will seek to mold our prayers by our Lord’s model prayer, communing with our Father God as Jesus himself did. This week, we explore 'Forgive us our debts...' from Matthew 6:12.

And you, who were dead in your trespasses…God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. Colossians 2:13-14

Prayer Prompt 1

• What have I done for which I need to seek forgiveness? 
• What have I left undone for which I need to seek forgiveness? 

“A man can as well go to hell for not forgiving as for not believing.” Thomas Watson

“Unless you have forgiven others, you read your own death-warrant when you repeat the Lord’s Prayer.”  Charles Spurgeon

“For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”  Matthew 6:14-15

Prayer Prompts 2

• Whose sin against you do you need to forgive? 
• What debt against you have you “forgiven” but not forgotten? 

Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep, we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts, we have offended against thy holy laws, we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, spare thou those who confess their faults, restore thou those who are penitent, according to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesus our Lord; and grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake, that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of thy holy Name. Amen. - Book of Common Prayer

Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name;

your kingdom come;

your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For yours is the kingdom, and the power,

and the glory forever.

Amen.

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