Luke 11:1; Matthew 6:9-13
Preached at Berea First Baptist Prayer Conference
- Out of all that the disciples saw Jesus do, the one thing they asked Him to teach was how to pray.
- Praying wasn’t necessary for God in the flesh, but His example was essential for us.
- The Lord’s Prayer was meant to serve more as a template than a script.
- Jesus never included any singular first-person pronouns in the Lord’s Prayer.
- The first half of the prayer is about God, and the second half is about God’s people.
- The appropriate balance in prayer is speaking to God as our Father who lives in heaven.
- If my requests have more to do with my name than God’s name, my prayers are weak.
- We should pray for the type of obedience on earth that is manifest in heaven.
- We rarely pray for today’s bread because we are too busy asking for tomorrow’s butter.
- Our prayers should seek to receive from God the amount of forgiveness that we have offered to others.
- Pray for God’s protection since your sin affects us.

Travis Agnew serves as the Lead Pastor of Rocky Creek Church in Greenville, SC. His most recent book is Just (About) Married.