into the Word of God. Matthew chapter 6. Matthew chapter 6. I was sitting in my sister-in-law and brother-in-law's home the other night, Thursday night. And we were talking about the things of the Lord. And my sister-in-law said that her youngest son and his wife had been over visiting. And they got talking about the eternity of God. That he has always been and always will be. And she said that just about blew their minds to try to grasp that. They were talking about it and her youngest son, Josh, was just saying, it's just, you know, he's saved and he said, boy, isn't this something just, you get thinking about it, you can't handle it. We want to talk about the Lord this morning. And it may surprise you when they look into this passage of scripture that it's the Lord we're talking about and not ourselves. The 6th chapter of Matthew, beginning at verse 9. If you're able to stand, let's stand as we read God's Word. Very familiar passage. Some of you may be able to quote it, but I want to read it this morning anyway. Jesus said, After this manner, therefore, pray ye, Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. But if ye forgive them their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses. Well, Lord, give us understanding this morning as we look at this from your passage of Scripture. It's so easy, Lord, just to shut off the switch of our mind and say, I know these verses. I know this passage. But, Lord, might we learn some things today that will cause us to have a greater understanding of you and how great you are. We pray for those that are watching a wave of television, that, Lord, perhaps this will be all new to them. And I pray if there are any that have never trusted you as personal Savior, that they would do so today. We give you the praise and the glory in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated. Pastor, the scripture called the Lord's Prayer, 66 words that are so familiar, quoted by millions and millions of people. In some churches today across America and perhaps other countries, there will be those who will stand as part of the worship service and will quote the Lord's Prayer. sometimes in great blending of voices, sometimes just a lone person in their closet. But I want to look at it today and, Lord willing, next week, and I want us to see what we can learn from this. I have preached on it before here in the past, but I have got some new things I want to share with us. Before we get into it, I want us to realize this. When the Lord gave this prayer to His disciples, He said, After this manner, therefore, pray ye. Notice He says, After this manner. He doesn't say, pray this. He said, after this manner. He did not give this prayer to us to be memorized or recited. I'm not saying it's sinful to do so. Many have recited it. Many have memorized it. But that was not the purpose of the prayer. We can miss the whole thing. When He says, after this manner, He says, use this prayer as a pattern, He is saying. He's not saying as a substitute. So a person might say, well, I pray the Lord's prayer every day. But really, prayer is from the heart of the individual to the Lord, what is on their heart as they talk to the Lord about the things that are on their heart. So the purpose of the prayer is not to glorify us, not to make us feel better, although it does as we look at it. But the purpose of the prayer is to glorify God's name and to ask him to accomplish. Now, not my will, but to accomplish His will. You get that? It's all about Him. To accomplish His will, to accomplish what He would have. And then as the Lord has given it to me, saying, now, you need to pray too. And we'll be getting into this next week. But you need to ask the Lord to help you not to do things that would dishonor His name. So it's all about Him. What are we going to learn? That's what our Christian life is anyway. It's all about Him. He is enough. My brother-in-law was saying the other night to me, He is going to a Bible study now, and I'm so glad he is, a men's Bible study, and he showed me the book that he's doing. And they're meeting for membership of the church they're going to, and I was glad to hear that. But he said, he said, you know, the thing that's striking me is this. God is enough. He's enough. I said, well, you know what? I said, there's a Dr. Jim Berg down in South Carolina that says that all the time. In fact, he says it so much that another guy wrote a song about that, that God is enough. He is enough. He's enough to meet the needs of our hearts and our lives. And he said, boy, and I'm realizing this, that things that I understand, I can't figure out, but God is enough. If I didn't have anybody else to talk to or to... I said, that's right, you're getting it. That's the whole thing. It's what the Lord, who He is. So I hope this helps us this morning about this. Now, this prayer begins with God's interests. Did you ever notice that? Not ours. We're so used to praying, and it's nothing wrong to bring our prayer requests and our burdens to the Lord, but it talks about His interest. You say, boy, we sure have a very proud God. No, we have a very holy, righteous God. And our God that we serve, it begins with His interest, not ours. For instance, His name, God's name, our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. I haven't even got to the outline yet, for those who like to keep outlines. This is all introduction. It talks about His kingdom. We think about our kingdom. No, His kingdom. It talks about His will. Not my will. It's all about Him. Him. Him. Him. And folks, to learn within our Christian lives, that's what it's all about. It's all about Him. Why we have the Lord's Prayer? You see, the disciples, as I said earlier, the Lord teach us to pray. And then in verse 7 of that passage of scripture, just two verses back from 9, he says, now look, don't go praying this as others do. Just say, well, look what he says back there in verse 7. But when you pray, use not vain repetition as the heathen do. They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Don't use their vain repetition. Pray what's on your heart. Pray what God is speaking to you about, you want to talk to him about. To pray, but he says, Lord teaches how to pray. And so he said to the disciples, that's why there are many Bible scholars that don't call this the Lord's prayer, they call it the disciples prayer, because he's teaching the disciples how to pray. So we may not be, you know, one of the disciples that followed him then, but we are disciples, disciplined ones that follow Christ so we can learn how to pray. But before we even get to the prayer, we need to learn some things. And this is what I want to talk about this morning. What is this pattern prayer all about. What is it all about? We look at it in our lives. Well, first of all, number one. Now, some of you like to write notes in the back of your bulletin. Here we go. It's a prayer that calls for a relationship with the Father. It is taken for granted. There is that relationship. You say, maybe you're watching we have television or maybe you're sitting here and you're saying, well, every person has a relationship with God, not unless they've come to God through Jesus Christ. not unless they've been born again. Then they can call Him their Heavenly Father. Then they can talk to Him in that way. And it starts out here, Our Father. Now, here's something that maybe you've missed. You know, in our prayer, in our own personal prayer, we'll go Our Heavenly Father or My Heavenly Father, but usually it's Our Heavenly Father. Notice how we use that word, Our. And notice what it is set here in this passage of Scripture. After this matter, pray, our Father, our, plural, all the way through our, forgive us our debts, forgive us our, our, our. You know what is getting into our mind? That each one of us that know the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and part of the family of God, He is our Heavenly Father. Not just yours. He's yours, but He's ours. That's why the Lord says, if you're at aught with a brother in Christ, You need to go and straighten that out before you come to the Lord to worship him, because you need to start. That's not pleasing to the Lord. Why? Because they are his child, too. Just like you are, if you know Christ, the Savior. So he says, our heavenly father. It is not singular pronouns. It's plural. We are part of the worldwide body of believers. Today in Uruguay, where the protos are, there are those people in that area. that know Jesus Christ as Savior, go to that church there where the prodos are, they're part of the family of God. They're part of the believers. So when they say, Our Heavenly Father, Our, and when you start your prayer, perhaps you get alone for your prayer time, maybe you've started out that way, Our Heavenly Father. Don't forget that word, Our. He's not just interested in you. He is interested in you. He's interested in everyone else too that knows Christ as Savior. And he wants us to love our brothers and sisters in Christ. You see? Now, when I was growing up, I called Clement Schoberg, my stepdad, I called him my dad. But he wasn't just my dad. He was Brenda's dad, Rhonda's dad, my sister's. He was our father. And he treated us all the same, loved us all the same, put up with our idiosyncrasies. He loved us, cared for us, scolded us sometimes, reminded us what we should be doing when we weren't, and so forth. But he was our father. So I looked at him as my dad, but I also recognized he was her dad and he was her dad. Well, Fred, get this. Like in the body believers here, it says our father. He's Joe's father. You see, he's Paul's father. He's my father. If we know Jesus Christ is our personal savior. So he says our father, which are in heaven. We have no right to ask for ourselves anything that would harm another member of that family. Because he's their child, too. I mean, they're his child, too. So he starts out and he says, our father. What a tender word, father. What a privilege to be called a father. I say, to be called a father. My son, most of you knew him when he was growing up through and now he's almost 39. Hard to believe, but he is. He was trying to get ahold of me in Maine. I was driving up Thursday and he wanted to wish me a happy birthday and he couldn't get me on the cell phone because I was busy doing something and I couldn't have it on where it was. And so then he tried to call and he got me. But the clown that he is on my cell phone, you know, when I played it back, hello, this is your son. If you'd like to hear happy birthday, press one. If you'd like to hear such, such, press two. You know, it's just he's clowning around. But, oh, what music to my ears when you hear those words. Dad, happy birthday. Dad. See? Or father. See? Father. Our father. Do you ever realize the blessing that is to call him our father? The One who made this massive universe, all the planets, all the stars, everything out there, and we can say, our Father, which art in heaven. The many memories of fathers. Psalm chapter 68, verse 5, says, He is the Father of the fatherless. I was talking years ago, counseling a young lady who had had a rough life, and she had been in foster homes all over the place. Her own dad had, as a baby, he had let her go and the mother did too. And the state stepped in and the state where she lived and took her over and she'd gone from home to home. And then finally she was adopted in the home. But then, sad to say, that father left the family and ran away with another woman. And here was this girl who was grieving over the fact she didn't have a father. And it was the Lord that did. It wasn't me. I said, oh yes, you do. I don't have a father. I never had a father like... He said, you have your Heavenly Father. And He is a friend that's taken closer than a brother. He will not reject you. He will not neglect you. He hears your prayers. He hears your burdens. She said, yeah, I do have a father. What I'm saying is that it's easier for you and for me to say, yeah, I know, He's my Heavenly Father. Psalm 103, verse 13, As a father pitieth his children. You see? with parents. Oh, when something happens to our children or our grandchildren, man, we're right there. You know, we're like, I've got to be there. I've got to be there to help. I've got to be there to... But listen, how the Lord cares about you and about me. He cares about our needs. Isaiah chapter 9, verse 6. He is the everlasting Father. But when it says, Our Father, it is so precious how that is stated. How is it stated? A tender and respectful love toward God. It's, hey man, how you doing? It's not that. And some of the disrespectful praying today that you hear, you know, hey man upstairs or whatever. No, no, no. Our father, our heavenly father. What a joy, what a praise. And then it's a strong confidence in his love. His unending love. And it's a love that, you know, when we ask for forgiveness, 1 John 1, 9, he forgives our sin. And as far as the East is from the West, that is some kind of father. When he says, there, he's teaching them, he says, now, this is Jesus, the Son of God, who is God. And he's talking about the Heavenly Father. And he says, our Father. But when we realize it's our Father, you know what that makes for? A spirit of unity. A spirit of unity. Like in my family, or your family, or whatever, when you're gathered around your dad, he's on a hospital bed, or whatever, and the three kids are there, it's that unity. We're here all for this one purpose. Our Father. But it brings together that unity. We have the common person. We have that common love. Him. Our Father. So he says, Our Father. It brings about a wonderful spirit of unity, and then of fellowship. You see? And then love. Just wonderful love. Our Father, which art in heaven. Our Father. And so, our prayer that calls for a relationship with the Father. Do you have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ? Have you asked Him into your heart as your Savior? Have you been born again? Then, don't ever overlook the privilege of saying, Our Father. Our Father, which art in heaven. Our Father. My brother-in-law that I was with has a little saying that he likes to say when he's praying. And he prayed with me yesterday before I left. He said, Our Heavenly Father, I'm so thankful you participate in our lives. Wow. You participate. To realize he's in charge. He knows what's best. I was blessed by that. It was like, yeah. Our Father, which art in heaven. So it calls for a relationship with the Father. Secondly, number two, this prayer calls for a reverence toward God. He's God. He talks about a wonderful reverence. He said, after this manner, our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Oh, now we see a wonderful reverence. By the way, when he speaks about the fact of our Father, which are in heaven. Let's just stop there for a second. We're going to talk about the reverence in just a second. But some things I wrote down as I was thinking about that. In heaven. That speaks about His omnipresence. Our Father can be everywhere at once. Our Heavenly Father. Wow. Not only that, but His majesty and dominion over us. to realize that our Father planned it all. There's a song I played on the radio broadcast this morning. No matter what takes place, no matter what comes down the pike, as it were, our Father planned it all. Wonderful Savior. And then, the power and might of God. Our Father. We're talking about the greatest power of the universe. He spoke to the Sea of Galilee and it was calm. Peace be still. He spoke, the Bible tells us in Genesis, and created. Powerful. And yet, we can call Him our Father. Our Father. It also speaks of the omniscience. Psalm 11, 14, Psalm 33, and so forth. Our Father, which art in heaven. Wow. So we talk about His omnipresence. And then also, when He says, Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be. Now we begin to talk about a wonderful quality here. You know what it is? Holiness. None of us are sinless. He has made us holy by his Holy Spirit and working through us, yes, but none of us are sinless. But we're talking to our Heavenly Father. Hallowed be thy name. You see, in a minute we can just pray this prayer or we can read this prayer and say, yeah, OK, it says that. I get it. I see this. I see that. He says, hallowed be thy name. Now, that word, hallowed, has the idea of adoration, glorifying him. Boy, you're a great father. Boy, you're a wonderful heavenly father. You see, and he says, hallowed be thy name. Now, there are seven petitions in the disciples' prayer. Seven petitions. Of these seven petitions, the first three are on behalf of the cause of God. Hallowed be thy name, our Father. He is talking here about how great He is. You know, we should approach God with worship and adoration. Not in a disrespectful manner. I don't mean in a formal, cold manner. I don't mean that. But a reverence to realize that we are talking to the wonderful Heavenly Father of this universe. We should approach Him with a worship of adoration. Reverence is more than just being quiet in church. You know, we should be quiet in church. But, you know, some people think, well, reverence, you're reverent in church, you know. And even though I have an R-E-V in front of my name, I kind of detest that because it's like, well, very reverent. You know, it speaks of cold stuff, you know. Now, I may be stuffed, but I'm not cold, you know. What I'm saying is this. Hallowed be thy name, a reverence It's more than just coming to church with a piousness. It's not that at all. Reverence is more than being solemn during the prelude. The prelude starts to be played on the piano. You know, you can squint your eyes like we're really something and really holy and whatever. But it's more than that. Reverence is recognizing what? The holiness of God. Go over to Isaiah chapter 6. Keep your finger here. And go over to Isaiah chapter 6. There's no better passage. Probably then. This one here, where we see Isaiah talking about his relationship with God. And he was going through a rough, tough time. The king Uzziah had died. He'd been a great king. And then Uzziah fell into sin and broke everybody's heart and became a leper. Just a terrible time. And he died. He says in chapter 6 of Isaiah, verse 1, In the year that king Uzziah died... Now here's this idea of hallowed be thy name. I saw also the Lord sitting upon the throne high and lifted up." It was like the Lord showed him. God is in control. Uzziah is dead. He'd been a great king, but God is in control. And then he goes on and talks about the power of God. "'High and lifted up,' verse 1, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim. Each had six wings, and twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet.' And one cried unto another. These angels cried one to another. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory. And that's been suggested. They said holy, holy, holy for the Trinity. But holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. And then he says in verse 6, verse 4, And the posts of the door were moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Here was the temple. Oh, he said it was like a a smoke of the presence of God was there. He said the post shook. And what was his response to it? What was his response? Then said I, woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell amongst a people of unclean lips, and mine eyes have seen the king of Lord of hosts. He realized he is everything. I am nothing. He is worth all the praise and honor and glory. Holy, holy, holy. There was no praise of man. And so he says over there, hallowed be thy name. He said there is a hallowedness there. You see, this means to pronounce as holy. To recognize everything holy about God. There is no sin in Him. No sin in Him. I was talking to somebody up there, and as I told them, I tell you once in a while here when I'm preaching, you never hear in heaven God go, whoops, because He doesn't make any mistakes. He has it all perfectly planned. And so, when you realize that, and you realize He's saying, hallowed be thy name, you're perfect, you're holy, you're just, you're righteous. You know? It also speaks of a reverence that is acknowledgement in light of my personal sin. How wonderful He is that He even accepts me. That He even forgave me. Hallowed be Thy name. And then, reverence is faith in our holy and loving God. I was coming back yesterday and I found this FM station on the radio. I was driving along trying to keep awake. I had a cup of coffee in my hand. I'm driving and and this guy come on and I don't know who he is, but it's on the same radio station network that Brother Blaine that your brother-in-law works. It's your brother. Yeah works on and this guy's been on for I forget it since 1968. He's been on there on Saturday afternoons. And you can tell he's elderly. But there's just a gracious kindness as he talks. And you love it, the little bit of a shh, you know, as he talks in the microphone, you know. But I mean, it's just called the power, what's it called, the hour of joy or something like that. And it's just joy in the Lord. He's excited about Christ. He's excited about God. And for all these years, people tune in to hear this thought. He wasn't any extravagant. No, the whole thing about it is you listen to him talk. He is so great. It was like. And here he is up in years, I would guess if he's been all those years on the radio, he's certainly a lot older than I am. And here he is. And he just love and everybody listening to him and tell them how great God is and how wonderful he comment between his plays music and comments between the music. Wow. Then I was up at Northland many years ago, and there's a guy in Milwaukee that's on the radio up there, and he's elderly, and he plays the organ like you wouldn't believe, and the piano. And so what they did is one evening, and just a break before all the service, he put this grand piano up in the middle of the platform, and he came up, he had a microphone like this, and he just sat down and kind of talked to us, and as he's talking, he starts tickling the ivories. He'd sing a verse of this hymn, sing a verse of this hymn. He'd, you know, tickle the ivories some more. And he's on doing that on the radio station in Milwaukee every week. And people just love to hear it because he just loves and adores his God. And we're sitting here listening to this guy and you're like, you know, and he's just sharing through music and just talking about the Lord. Well, get it here when he says, hallowed be thy name. So I said, also, it's not just a reverence and acknowledging personal sin. Next, it's a reverence. A reverence is faith in our holy and loving God. I fall short. I am not worthy. But He sure is great. He is hallowed. He is the One. Not me. So, He's really caught up with this whole thing. And then reverence is living carefully because He is holy. Because I love Him so much. Because I hallowed His name. I don't want to do things to bring shame to Him. I love Him. And so there's that holy reverence or fear of God. But it's a fear that's out of love and just adoration to our wonderful Lord. Yes, hallowed be thy name. And then, third, a prayer that calls for the return of the Lord. He says, thy, not my, thy kingdom come. Now, in those days, the Jews were waiting for the Lord to come back and set up his kingdom. And there's going to be a day that he's coming back to this earth to set up his millennial kingdom for a thousand years. It's going to be a wonderful time, the Bible talks about. We, first of all, wait for him to come in the clouds for us, 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. We're caught up with the Lord in the clouds for seven years while the tribulation takes place down here. And then we come back with him and he sets up his reign here on earth. And so you see here where Jesus is teaching the disciples, it's all about your heavenly father. And you ought to look forward to the fact that thy kingdom comes. Now, when you say that, when you think about that, what you're saying is this. Lord, I want you to reign. Not just on this earth. When it talks about what it's going to be like during the millennial time. The lion lying down with a lamb and the child with a lion and so forth. The nature they were born with is going to be changed. Vegetation is going to be like it hasn't been since the Garden of Eden. But we see here, as he's talking about the whole thing, I long for you to reign on this earth, but even more than hell would be thy name, thy kingdom come. I want you to reign in me. I want you to reign in me. I want you to be in charge. Not just in me, but in this land, yes. But I long for your reign. We're so busy sometimes in our lives trying to take the reins back and say, I'm going to run my life. And the Lord goes, all right. Then we mess up and mess our life all up and come back. I'm sorry, Lord. Here we go. It's just better to say, Lord, you take the reins. Lord, you do it. Lord, you just do it, Lord. And then, it's not just thy kingdom come. under that. But also, praying this prayer is a prayer for Christ's return. Lord, I look forward to you coming back. And each believer ought to look forward to Him coming in the clouds. Wow. We don't get so tied down here that we miss who we are serving and the one we love. Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. This is nothing. You see? All the trappings and all the things and all the gadgets and all the My brother-in-law and sister-in-law are thinking of selling their home and getting a little tiny place by a lake and then a little place in Florida and just getting rid of the big house. And she looked at me Friday night, she said, why did we collect all this junk? You ever been there? What was so big about that years ago? Why did we get that? You go out in the attic, oh, look at this. And he said, we got to get rid of all this junk. We don't need all this. You see, we can use certain things that help us in our lives, but our Heavenly Father, our Father, you see, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Lord, that's what I'm looking for. The disciples expected the kingdom to be then. They thought he was going to set up his kingdom on earth. A lot of the Jews did. No, that wasn't the time. When he came in on Palm Sunday, they thought he was coming to do it then. No, it wasn't time yet. Thy kingdom come. They thought that the world was ready. The world wasn't ready. A lot to take place before He will come back and set up on this earth. You see, the world is more ready now than then. You see, not that everybody's heart is. No, but I'm saying that it's coming to the time, God's plan. And Christ will come and set up His kingdom. There will be peace over all the earth. End of war. During that time, Satan's going to be chained, cast in the bottomless pit for a thousand years. It's going to be a wonderful time of peace. The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord. That's why the Lord is teaching them, Thy kingdom come. Thy kingdom come. And then the enmity between people and animals will end. You see, the desert will blossom as a rose, the Bible says, and the earth will produce abundant crops more than you ever can imagine. They won't need all the sprays and all of the poisons and all of the, you know, to kill these bugs and those bugs and, you know. Is it any wonder that he's teaching them? Guys, as I'm teaching you, you ask me to teach you how to pray? Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. There it is. He said, Thy kingdom come. You know, really, each communion service that we have, we look forward to Him coming back. This do till I come. Now, what about a wonderful pattern of prayer? We're going to see next week, too. There are areas, and he breaks down after he does these three things here we talked about this morning. If this prayer calls for a relationship with the Lord, it calls for reverence toward God, And it calls for the return of the Lord. Now he's going to teach us some other things in our lives, in our prayer life that ought to be there. Not just to pray a prayer, but here is the pattern. And when you think of this, what a perfect teacher. He is perfect. The very son of God. He's saying, now this is how you're to pray to the heavenly father. And then we close our prayers when we, you know, in Jesus name, because we come to God through Jesus Christ. But we start out our Heavenly Father. Our Father which art in Heaven. Our. Our. Our. So the two big words through this is our and yours. Our. Our Father. But everything about you. Your greatness. Your power. Your holiness. Your might. If we can just grasp that. Get a hold of that in our lives. To get us back to basics. It's God in me. And it's all about Him. He is enough. Our Father. I challenge you today, you get a chance to talk to the Lord in prayer. You know, we're not going to be in service tonight. We always do, but we're not because the storm is coming in this afternoon. Maybe you'll take some time tonight, just get along with the Lord this afternoon and say, Lord, thank you for being my Heavenly Father. Lord, I haven't thanked you for that. I haven't thanked you for your care and your watch care. I haven't thanked you for how you listen and how you care about me. No question we ask Him is a stupid question. And no prayer is a stupid prayer. We come to Him in prayer. We worry about all the these and those. No, we just come and pour our heart out to our dear Heavenly Father who loves us so much He gave His Son for us. Isn't He wonderful? Our Father. You don't have to do this, but just think about it. Next time you talk to one of your brothers and sisters in Christ here, say, hey, I want to shake your hand. Isn't our Father great? We share the same Heavenly Father. Isn't our Father great? Remind them, my Father is your Father. Wonderful Father, Heavenly Father. Let's pray. Oh Lord, we thank Thee for the reminder this morning from Matthew chapter 6. These three things about the disciples' prayer. They asked you to teach them how to pray. But, Lord, you first of all gave them a whole lesson on the fact that the Heavenly Father was the Father of all the disciples there that knew you as Savior, that knew you. Lord, we know Judas didn't. He was a son of perdition. But, Lord, the others, our Father, Lord, might we take that word, our, and say, praise God for my brother and sister in Christ. Praise God for my friend here at the church and praise God for each one and help me to love them more because we have the same father. We have the same father. Oh, Lord, I pray that you would help us to adore you and to hallow your name, that you're so holy and righteous and just and so thankful for that and look forward to your return. Lord, we see you then through this simple message that it's all about you. You're everything. You're the creator. You're the loving Savior who gave yourself for us. Lord, I pray, are there any on the television or those sitting here that don't know you as Savior, that they would come to God through Jesus Christ, who came from heaven to die for our sins and was buried and rose again. that did that is teaching this lesson, this is how to pray. Thank you for how wonderful you are, our Father. In Jesus' name, Amen.