Sermon Series: Praying God’s Prayer

Sermon Title: Thy Will Be Done

Text: Matthew 26:36-46

Focus: The Lord's Prayer guides us to pray for God’s will to be done on earth. This week, we will discuss what that really means.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

– Lord’s Prayer

My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.

– Matthew 26:38

My father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.

– Matthew 26:39

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

– Matthew 7:7-8

“We are involved in the action and participate in its results but do not control or define it.”

– Eugene Peterson

I am the Lord’s servant. May your word to me be fulfilled. – Luke 1:38

“Prayer is an act of seeing reality from God’s point of view.”

– Phillip Yancey