What is the one thing that keeps you from growing deeper in prayer? Why do we pray? 1. To express our complete dependency on God • The reason we don’t pray is not because we’re too busy, but because we’re too confident. 2. To experience intimacy with God • The primary point of prayer is not to get something but to know Someone 3. To enjoy the experience of participating with God • Prayer is a means God has given us to participate with Him in what He is doing in the world. • The word Our reminds us that we do not pray alone but in fellowship with God’s people scattered around the world. • We pray to our Father who loved us and gave his Son for our salvation. • We affirm that Our Father is in heaven where he reigns supreme over the entire universe. • We ask that God’s name be honored by the way we live so that others will look at us and give glory to our Father in heaven. • We are praying both for the King and the Kingdom to come and while we wait, we pray for courage to be “Kingdom People” who reflect the values of the world to come. • We pray for God’s will to be done even if it means that our will is not done. • We pray for our daily bread because we depend completely on the Lord for what we need, and we share what we have with others because God has blessed us so richly. • We pray that our debts might be forgiven because we are sinners in thought, word and deed. • We forgive our debtors, knowing that we cannot have fellowship with the Father while we harbor bitterness in our hearts toward others. • We pray that God will not lead us into temptation because we realize our weakness and we know that without God’s help, we will lose the battle every time. • We put on the armor of God by faith, asking God to deliver us from the evil one. • Because we believe that Yours is the kingdom, we eagerly anticipate the day when the kingdoms of the earth will give way to the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. • Because we believe that Yours is the power, we do not give up in the face of difficult trials but instead live in faith that the Lord has a purpose and will give us whatever we need to face the challenges of each day. • Because we believe that Yours is the glory, we have chosen to live for God instead of for the praise of men. • We confidently believe that these things are true forever. Therefore, we say Amen, so be it, Lord. What Difference Will It Make? Let’s start a “Lord’s Prayer” movement in the body of Longview Heights. How much richer we would be if God’s people would make this prayer central in their lives. How much stronger this church would be if all of us would pray this prayer every day. How much deeper our walk with God would be if we grasped what this prayer is saying to us. We would have more joy, more power, more strength, more wisdom, more of all the things we so desperately need.