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Reflective Study Questions
The Lord’s Prayer
Sermons
(Luke 11:1-4; Matt 6:5-13)
1. Saturday 21st February
‘Our Father in heaven’ – Reflective Questions
2. Saturday 28th February
‘Hallowed be your name’ – Reflective Questions
3. Saturday 7th March
‘Your Kingdom come’ – Reflective Questions
4. Saturday 14th March
‘Your will be done’ – Reflective Questions
5. Saturday 21st March
‘Give us this day our daily bread’ – Reflective Questions
6. Saturday 28th March
‘Forgive us our sins as we forgive others’ – Reflective Questions
7. Saturday 4th April
‘Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one’ – Reflective Questions
‘Our Father in heaven…’ (Luke 11:1-2)
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How would you evaluate your prayer life at the moment?
When teaching the disciples how to pray what sort of things
didn’t Jesus say?
3. What is prayer?
4. What does it mean to pray like the hypocrites (Matt 6:5-9)
5. What is the meaning of the word ‘Abba’?
6. Why do we start the Lord’s Prayer with the word ‘Father’?
7. What does the word ‘Father’ mean for our relationship with and
our access to God?
8. Why is it significant that our Father is in heaven?
9. Why is the phrase ‘Our Farther in heaven’ such a powerful
combination?
10. Why should the opening phrase of the Lord’s Prayer encourage
us to pray more?
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Reflective Study Questions
The Lord’s Prayer
‘Hallowed be your Name…’ (Luke 11:2)
1.
What do you live for and what for you constitutes a successful
life?
2. What is the chief end of man?
3. In what ways could our prayers be considered worldly?
4. In what ways can we desire God’s glory in our prayers?
5. Why is God’s name significant?
6. What does God’s name tell us about His character?
7. How can we make the true God known and honoured in the
world?
8. What does the word ‘hallow’ mean?
9. How can we hallow the name of God?
10. How did Jesus demonstrate that He hallowed God’s name?
‘Your Kingdom come…’ (Luke 11:2)
1.
In what ways do our prayers often reveal that we are praying ‘My’
kingdom come rather than ‘your’ kingdom come?
2. How does the parable in Matthew 13:44 demonstrate the
gospel?
3. What is the new vocabulary for our prayers?
4. What does praying ‘your kingdom come’ mean?
5. What does it mean to seek first the Kingdom of God?
(Matthew 6:25-34)
6. What does it mean to pray ‘God reign in me’?
7. What are we asking for when we pray for God’s ultimate reign
over the whole earth?
8. What are we asking for when we pray for God’s reign to break
into this world now?
9. How does praying ‘Your kingdom come’ involve us now in our
Christian lives?
10. How has the Kingdom come to us, how is it coming now, and
how will it come in the future?
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The Lord’s Prayer
‘Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven’
(Matthew 6:10)
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On what occasions did Jesus pray or say ‘your will be done’?
Why doesn’t God always give us the things we ask for?
What is God’s will in His eternal plan?
If God’s plans are sure and He knows what we need before we
ask Him, why bother praying?
5. How does prayer change us?
6. How does God perform His will in answer to the prayers of His
people?
7. What is God’s will in the way we should live?
8. What is the big problem we humans have in following God’s will
for our lives?
9. What does it mean to pray “…your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven.”
10. What is the mark of a child of God? How do we display the family
resemblance?
‘Give us today our daily bread’ (Matthew 6:11)
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3.
Why is prayer often no more than a 999 call?
What does it indicate when we don’t pray to God daily?
How is Jesus’ instruction to pray, “Give us this day our daily
bread”, reminiscent of the way that God provided manna for the
children of Israel as they wandered through the desert?
4. Why is it important that we place our trust in God and not in the
things that we store up?
5. Why does the Proverb say ‘give me neither poverty nor riches’?
6. Why is setting yourself the goal to pray everyday not legalistic?
7. What is the significance of the word ‘daily’ in the Lord’s Prayer
other than the 24 hours ahead of us?
8. How is the concept of ‘daily bread’ used by Jesus in John
chapter 6?
9. How can you put yourself in a position where you feel that you
have to pray every day?
10. What do you need to do to re-order your life to make you rely on
the Lord?’
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Reflective Study Questions
The Lord’s Prayer
‘Forgive us our sins as we forgive others’
(Luke 11:4)
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2.
Why doesn’t God always say ‘yes’ to our prayers?
How does this line of the Lord’s Prayer help to restore our
relationship with the Lord and with others?
3. Why can this request be a ‘terrible petition’?
4. In Ps. 32:1-2 what do the words ‘blessed’, ‘forgiven’, and
‘covered’ mean?
5. How does un-repented sin fracture our relationships with God
and others?
6. What is the importance of repentance and confession in prayer?
How much repentance and confession do your prayers contain?
7. Are we forgiven only because we forgive others?
8. What are the key lessons from Jesus’ parable in Matt 18?
9. Is there someone with whom you need to resolve a grudge and
begin the process of forgiveness?
10. What does our struggling with forgiving someone else show?
What does it indicate if we refuse to forgive someone?
‘Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from
the Evil One’ (Matthew 6:13)
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What does it indicate when we are too busy to pray?
What does it mean that we are in a spiritual war zone?
Why does Satan want us to ignore him or not take him seriously?
What does Daniel 7 tell us about the evil in the world and the
sovereignty of God?
5. Why should “Deliver us from the evil one” be a daily part of our
prayers?
6. Why does the prayer ‘Lead us not into temptation’, come
immediately after the prayer, “Forgive us our sin”?
7. If God doesn’t tempt us why pray ‘Lead us not into temptation’?
8. Why can we feel secure in our relationship with Jesus?
9. How can temptations subtly chip away at our relationship with
Jesus?
10. How can you use the Lord’s Prayer as a pattern for
your prayers?
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