Luke 11:1-28

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(v3-4) Give us each day our daily bread,  and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.” 

  • Jesus is teaching the disciples how to pray
  • I’m reminded that I need to preach the gospel to myself every single day 
  • Jesus is the bread of life, and I need him daily
  • We must come to Jesus and confess daily for our continual and ongoing sins
  • This also reminds me of how I should forgive - that is, forgive because we have been forgiven for our own sins

(v9-10) And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

  • Jesus tells his disciples to ask God, seek God and knock at the gates of God for mercy
  • He is encouraging prayer as a continual habit of life
  • The promised result is that it will be given and opened
  • However, it doesn’t mean that whatever we ask for, we will get, since God is wiser than us and has better plans for us (as children) than we could ever imagine

(v13) If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

  • A far more important gift than physical and material blessing is the anointing and guidance we are given through the Holy Spirit
  • Since God is so much greater and merciful than us, then us as his children must mean he loves us greatly too
  • We’ve already received all that we need through Christ and through the resurrection, and He will continue to supply us with our every need through the Holy Spirit when we ask Him for it

(v23) Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.  

  • Neutrality with Jesus is not possible

(v28) But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

  • True blessedness is hearing the Words of God and then keeping it too

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