Memory Verse for the Week: Matthew 6:5a & 9a (ESV)

"And when you pray, you must not … Pray then like this.”

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INTRO: Thinking relationally, what do you do to connect with people?

NOT A TASK, BUT A RELATIONSHIP
What are the essential components of a healthy relationship?

IMPRESSING THE WRONG AUDIENCE
Why can it be so enticing to be “seen by men?”

THE APPROVAL THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING — #blessed
Why is the quest for the Father’s reward so significant?

YOU CAN PRAY WITH US …

1. Worship the LORD, our Maker and Husband, for His holy, redeeming love. Praise Him, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, for how He would open Himself to, and devote Himself to, sinners like us.

2. How have you lived as if the attention of others would be so much more desirable than the attention of the Lord? Confess your pride and conceit to Jesus, asking Him to forgive you and heal your heart to be truly loving.

3. Give thanks to Jesus for how He worked, that He Himself IS our peace. Thank Him for being willing to be cursed so we could be blessed; to lose His Father’s loving smile so that we could gain it.

4. Who do you know that is wholly committed to impressing other people while before Jesus they would be utterly humiliated? Pray for them, asking the Lord to open their eyes to HIS surpassing love and worth instead.

5. Ask the Holy Spirit to bear in you His fruit of love and faithfulness. Pray that He would motivate you and sustain you to take advantage of the access you have to the Lord in prayer, in His Word, and in time with His people.

Looking Back

The Facilitator is a study tool designed to help you engage with the weekly sermon through the five elements we incorporate in our Community Groups; Get Acquainted & Sharing, Sermon Study, Mission, Worship and Prayer. This tool will be made available Monday morning to give us the opportunity to look back at what we heard on Sunday.