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Four Sundays on learning to pray as a way to know God, not only to ask him for things.
Most of us learned to pray a long time ago, and many of us have never moved past asking God for the things we need. Over four Sundays in July 2023, this series opened up the rich variety of prayer, the postures that shape it, and the pattern Jesus himself gave us. It began with the many forms prayer can take and why each one matters, then turned to Jesus' teaching in Matthew 6 about how we show up before God.
From the warning against praying to be seen to the simple, world-changing words of the Lord's Prayer, these messages invite us to trade empty habit for real conversation. Prayer becomes less about getting the words right and more about drawing near to a Father who is listening. This series mattered because it reminded New Hope that the door to God is always open and that he is listening.
July 2023 · 4 Weeks
“This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.’”
Matthew 6:9-10
Prefer to watch start to finish? We've put the whole Connecting Through Prayer series into one video on our YouTube channel.
Mark 11
What actually happens when we pray? Opening a four-week series on prayer, Pastor Kyle Relph starts with the plainest definition he can give, then works through Mark 11, Luke 18 and Philippians 4 to show why prayer changes the person praying more than it changes God.
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Psalm 19
How do you pray when you have no idea where to begin? In week two of Connecting Through Prayer, Pastor Mark Addis works through Psalm 19, Psalm 95 and Psalm 57 to show what a prayer of adoration and a prayer of thanksgiving actually sound like.
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Matthew 6:5-13
Jesus said do not pray like the hypocrites, then told his disciples where to stand and what not to say. This message reads Matthew 6:5-13 and finishes on Mount Carmel, where Elijah made an impossible thing harder on purpose. Taught by Pastor Mark Addis.
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Matthew 6:9-13
The Lord's Prayer takes twenty seconds to say and contains almost everything prayer is for. This message works through Matthew 6:9-13 line by line, then follows forgiveness into the parable in Matthew 18:21-35. Taught by Pastor Mark Addis.
Watch the messageConnecting Through Prayer is one of several series we walked through in 2023, the year of UnLOCK. Browse the rest of the year, or join us in person on a Sunday.
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