September 02, 2025

3 Things We Learn About God from The Lord's Prayer

19 minutes

This week, Jordan shares three things we can learn about God from the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6.

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Discussion Questions:

Read Matthew 6:7-13

Have you ever heard or prayed the Lord’s prayer before? If so, what was that like for you? Does it seem familiar or foreign to you?

Jesus shares The Lord’s Prayer in the middle (of the middle, of the middle!) of the Sermon on the Mount. What do you make of that? What are a few reasons why Jesus might have made the Lord’s prayer central to this sermon?

Is there a line, phrase, or request that sticks out to you as you read and engage with the Lord’s Prayer today? If so, which one is it?

Jesus tells his audience, “When you pray, don’t pour out a flood of empty words, as the Gentiles do. They think that by saying many words, they’ll be heard.” (Matthew 6:7)

Have you ever felt like you prayed a prayer with a lot of words? What was that like?

Have you ever prayed a simple prayer, or a prayer with just a few words? What was that like for you?

Jesus tells his audience that God knows what we need before we ask. Is there something you’ve been waiting or hoping to talk to Jesus about lately, but haven’t gotten to it yet?

What do you make of the truth that Jesus is already there in your place of need, waiting to meet with you?

The Lord’s prayer teaches us that God’s not interested in how nicely we can pray, how loudly we can pray… it seems he’s more interested in how honestly we pray.

Can you think of one or two things you might want to bring to God in prayer this week? If you have the space and time, try writing out an honest, one or two sentence prayer in relation to those one or two things.

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By Adam Avery, Abigail Carroll, and Jordan Otruba

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