Prayer is a constant challenge for most people. We need regular reminders of how and why we pray so we will focus on this topic for the next three weeks. Today we have a guest preacher, Dr. Jedidiah Coppenger to help us see God's instruction to pray. Jed is married to Melanie and they have three kids who travelled up from Nashville to be here today. Jed is the founding pastor of Redemption City in Franklin TN and the author of the book we passed out today, 21-Days to Childlike Prayer. Jed will be looking at the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 5 and pointing us to the importance of praying as a child to a father, not simply trying to become more spiritual in prayer.
God doesn’t need great prayers to do great things. When you speak to Him in simple, trusting faith, you find yourself in a new story where anything is possible, where you always get what’s best, and where your problems become opportunities for a greater experience of Jesus.