Talk

All Access Prayer

Grant Partrick

October 28, 2018

You and I have an all-access pass, an invitation into something so much larger and greater than ourselves, and yet most of us overlook it every day. Our ability to communicate with God is something altogether mysterious and magnificent, a gift that we hardly take advantage of, relegating it to a last resort or wishlist.

But what if we didn’t? What if we treated prayer like what it really is? How would the world around us change if we opened up to our Heavenly Father, brought Him the praise due to His name, and asked for things with confidence that He alone knows the true best course?

Scripture References

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

“This, then, is how you should pray:

“ ‘Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name,

your kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one.

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Grant Partrick

Grant Partrick is a part of the team at Passion City Church and serves as the Cumberland Location Pastor. He is passionate about inspiring people to live their lives for what matters most. Grant and his wife, Maggie, live in Marietta, Georgia with their daughters, Mercy, Ember, and Charleigh. He is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary where he earned a masters of theology degree.