The disciples said, “Lord, teach us to pray.” The Lord Jesus gave them a class on prayer. Matthew 6:9, “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 into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom, and the power and the glory forever. Amen.”

There are seven elements to effective prayer as taught by Jesus. Number one is relationship. It's a vertical relationship to the Heavenly Father, but it includes the horizontal relationship of fellow believers. “Our father.” “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your might, with all your strength. And you shall love your neighbor as yourself.” If we don't get the relationship right, the prayer is in vain.

The second thing that we notice is that the ultimate desire is for God's glory — “Hallowed be thy name.” May your name be glorified. If we went no further than that to understand that I have a relationship with God through faith, that that relationship embraces my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, and I am asking that God's name will be glorified. That's a powerful prayer.

Third, there is a longing for His kingdom, both in the future and in the present — Thy kingdom come” Are you looking forward to the kingdom? Jesus said, “I'm going to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place, I will come and receive you to myself. That where I am, there you may be also.” When we get there, we're going to know that we are finally home — a longing for His kingdom. But you know what? His kingdom should live in my life. As you and I move through this dark and evil world, we should be walking with a glow of light and a reflection of the kingdom in the way we think, the way we speak, and the way we act.

Fourth: daily provision. “Give us this day our daily bread.” Daily bread spoke of not only physical but also spiritual provision. We are looking at God's Word right now and we're taking in daily bread.

Fifth: forgiveness for sins. We need to confess our sins before God on a daily and sometimes on a moment by moment basis.

And that leads us to the sixth: The power and the willingness to forgive others. When we ask God to forgive us, we need to be reminded that we have to be willing to forgive others. If you have an unforgiving attitude, you're out of fellowship with God. You'll not be restored to fellowship with God until you come to a point of forgiveness.

Finally: deliverance from temptation and evil. If you've covered those seven bases, your prayers are effective. Your prayers are powerful. Now you can add all the other things that you might think of, but it's going to fall into one of these categories that's effective prayer.

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1st John 5:11, “This is the testimony that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; ...” We have to be a believer. “... he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. These things I have written to you who believe... ” Does that identify you?

“These things I've written to you, who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, ...” My friend, I want to tell you that if you have trusted Christ as your Savior and you're still wrestling with doubts and insecurities, you need to solve that problem. John says, “I have written this to those of you who believe, so that you may know that you have eternal life.”

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Well, you know, there's a difference in the will of God and the plan of God. You ever thought about that? The will of God is revealed to all of us right here. We know God's will when we know God's Word. If we refuse to learn His will which is contained in His word, we're never going to find His plan.

I know Christians who have spent their whole life seeking for what God wants them to do, or what He would have them to be a part of. They're always jumping from one place to the next and always uncertain. But the one thing they lack is a willingness to get into this book, to immerse themselves in this book, and to saturate their soul with the Word of God.

And somehow when we make this the priority, we just know. We know when we hear that little voice who says, turn to the right, turn to the left. Do this. Don't go there, no matter how good it may look. This way may look great, and the other way may look dim. But if God says go the dim path, it's the only bright place to be.

And there are times that He leads us through the valley of the shadow for reasons that only He knows at the time, and reasons that we look back years later and say how I thank Him for that dark and difficult and painful valley that he took me through.

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