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"Supplication: Ask, Seek, Knock" (Matthew 6:7-13; 7:7-11)
Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. In our final series of the Spring semester we are looking at how to relate to God through prayer, using the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 as our guide.
This week in our series on prayer we look at “supplication,” which is a fancy word for petition, which is another fancy word for asking. A prayer of petition or supplication is asking God to supply something lacking. In some ways, the entire Lord’s Prayer is a prayer of asking, with praise and confession and thanksgiving thrown in. Asking (along with lamenting, intercession, and other kinds of asking) is the most common mode of prayer in the Bible. And it’s the mode of living that is most congruent with the reality of God’s fatherly grace. The Lord’s Prayer shows us that because God is our loving Father, we should continuously bring all our needs to him.
"As far as I can see, prayer has been ordained only for the helpless... Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray”- Ole Hallesby
“To come to the Father in Jesus' name, not our own, is to come fully cognizant that we are being heard because of the costly grace in which we stand. This is the one principle of prayer that makes it possible to be heard by God even though no one can follow all the other guidelines and "rules" as we should.” - Tim Keller
“We can do only what we can do and acknowledge our humble place in the grand scheme of things. This disposition is what sets prayer apart from manifestation. The practice of prayer presupposes that while we can express and pursue our preferences, we ultimately hand them over to someone with a perspective much broader and a love more generous than any of us can fathom.”-Lydia Sohn
Heidelberg Catechism Q & A 117.
Q. What is the kind of prayer that pleases God and that he listens to?
A. First, we must pray from the heart to no other than the one true God, revealed to us in his Word, asking for everything God has commanded us to ask for.
Second, we must fully recognize our need and misery, so that we humble ourselves in God’s majestic presence.
Third, we must rest on this unshakable foundation: even though we do not deserve it, God will surely listen to our prayer because of Christ our Lord. That is what God promised us in his Word.
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By Reformed University Fellowship at UNCWWelcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. In our final series of the Spring semester we are looking at how to relate to God through prayer, using the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 as our guide.
This week in our series on prayer we look at “supplication,” which is a fancy word for petition, which is another fancy word for asking. A prayer of petition or supplication is asking God to supply something lacking. In some ways, the entire Lord’s Prayer is a prayer of asking, with praise and confession and thanksgiving thrown in. Asking (along with lamenting, intercession, and other kinds of asking) is the most common mode of prayer in the Bible. And it’s the mode of living that is most congruent with the reality of God’s fatherly grace. The Lord’s Prayer shows us that because God is our loving Father, we should continuously bring all our needs to him.
"As far as I can see, prayer has been ordained only for the helpless... Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray”- Ole Hallesby
“To come to the Father in Jesus' name, not our own, is to come fully cognizant that we are being heard because of the costly grace in which we stand. This is the one principle of prayer that makes it possible to be heard by God even though no one can follow all the other guidelines and "rules" as we should.” - Tim Keller
“We can do only what we can do and acknowledge our humble place in the grand scheme of things. This disposition is what sets prayer apart from manifestation. The practice of prayer presupposes that while we can express and pursue our preferences, we ultimately hand them over to someone with a perspective much broader and a love more generous than any of us can fathom.”-Lydia Sohn
Heidelberg Catechism Q & A 117.
Q. What is the kind of prayer that pleases God and that he listens to?
A. First, we must pray from the heart to no other than the one true God, revealed to us in his Word, asking for everything God has commanded us to ask for.
Second, we must fully recognize our need and misery, so that we humble ourselves in God’s majestic presence.
Third, we must rest on this unshakable foundation: even though we do not deserve it, God will surely listen to our prayer because of Christ our Lord. That is what God promised us in his Word.