Have you ever said to yourself, "Today I'm going to make some changes in my life. I'm going to stop those bad habits." But somehow you seem to fall back into the same old bad habits? Because the reality of living on this planet is that temptation will come into our life every day. If we aren’t aware of it and how to deal with it, we will give into temptation. That’s why we need what Jesus tells us to pray in Matthew 6:13, “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” Jesus knows that we all struggle with temptation. It's common to all of us. But how do we deal with it? Are there things we can do to protect ourselves from giving into to temptation? We are going to look at what leads us into temptation and also God's escape plan.

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Two of the greatest barriers in life that keep us from experiencing genuine peace of mind are guilt and resentment. Guilt and resentment do more damage in our life than anything else. The Lord’s Prayer deals with both of these issues in a powerful way. Jesus tells us to pray, “Forgive us our sins just as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.” If you are a follower of Jesus you are required to forgive because you've been forgiven. In fact, Jesus connects our forgiveness by God to forgiving others.

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Have you ever asked yourself these types of questions: What’s hindering my progress in life? What’s hindering me growing closer to God, growing closer to my family, to other people. What’s holding me back? Often, we consider and look at lots of other answers to these questions. But it's something far deeper. The truth is, what holds you back in life is almost always internal. The things that hold you back relate to the issues of guilt, and in particular unconfessed sin. That’s why Jesus tells us to pray the next line in the Lord's Prayer: 'Forgive us our sins.' When we understand this part of the prayer and practice it, it opens the door to live a life of freedom, a life of a clear conscience, a life that is joyful. 

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In today's episode, we’re going to look at the third phrase: “Give us today our daily bread.” When Jesus says we’re to pray, “Give us today our daily bread,” He’s talking about far more than just bread. In fact, He is talking about being totally dependent on God for everything in our life. This is the part of the prayer when we remind ourselves that God is our ultimate provider, not just what we eat, everything. And Jesus says, when we pray, we are to pause, and we are to declare our dependence on God for everything, every day, every single thing lest we forget.

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In this episode, Pastor Phill will look at why we need to pray, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

What does that mean? And why do we pray that? It's because God’s will is not done on earth most of the

time. In heaven, God’s will is done perfectly. But on earth it’s rarely done on earth as it is in heaven. So,

when we pray, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,” it's saying, "God you’re in charge." It means that we

are surrendering our whole life to God. Jesus is actually inviting us to experience the world in a way that we

will never experience it unless we surrender. But what does it mean to surrender? 

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In this episode Pastor Phill focuses on the first part of the Lord's Prayer that says, ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed by your name’ and the fact that the Lord's Prayer says we can refer to God as 'Our Father'.Only seven times in the Old Testament is God referred to as father. Jesus referred to God as father 150 times in the New Testament. What we must understand is that God is a person, not a power. We can have deep relationships with a person, but we can’t have deep relationships with a power or force. In the message we will look at four characteristics of God as Father and what that means for us today.

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Does prayer actually work?

Can prayer change our lives?

What’s the point of prayer anyway?

Through this series we look at praying the Lord's prayer to change your life.

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