The Lord's Prayer

What does the Lord's Prayer teach us about how to pray? In this episode, Aaron and Jennifer Smith walk verse by verse through Matthew 6:5-13, the prayer Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount. They explain that Jesus gave a template for how to pray, not just words to recite, and warn against hypocritical, wordy or show-off prayer, since 'your Father knows what you need before you ask him.' They unpack what it means to pray to God as Father, a comfort for anyone with a broken earthly dad, to hallow His name, and to seek His kingdom and will above our own requests. Through a story about their son's bad dreams, they share how God may build character rather than simply remove discomfort. They close by encouraging parents to teach their children to pray and to build real intimacy with God, not for salvation, but because intimacy takes intentionality.