Ray Stedman Sermons

Topic:The Cost of Disobedience I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began. John 17:4, 5 This prayer was prayed prior to his going the cross, but, in its scope, it reaches beyond and …

Topic:The Hour Has Come After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: Father, the hour has come. John 17:1a The hour has come. With these words Jesus looks forward with obvious anticipation to a time of boundless opportunity that lies before him. Surely these words, the hour has come, mean a good deal more than the phrase we …

Topic:In My name And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. John 14:13-14 Whatever … anything … I will do it. We sense immediately that this is too wide. If we take this as …

Topic:Praying Together For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them. Matthew 18:20 The expression of the power of Jesus Christ is never fully seen in an individual Christian, but only in the church as a whole. The simplest form of the church is here described, Where two or three gather in my name. You …

Topic:Unrecognized Temptation And lead us not into temptation. Luke 11:4b This part of the Lord’s prayer deals with the realm of the spirit. In the unseen war of the spirit, the greatest needs of our life are deliverance and protection. But an immediate problem arises here, for Scripture reveals that temptation is necessary to us, a very real part of …

Topic:Forgiven and Forgiving Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. Luke 11:4a Here is the need for a cleansed conscience, for a sense of peace, of rest with God and man. This is the arena where the emotional clutter of our life takes a very deadly toll. Who of us has not experienced troublesome …

Topic:Praying for Your Body Give us each day our daily bread. Luke 11:3 Jesus begins this section of the prayer with the needs of the body. I like that! We have such distorted ideas about prayer that we often feel there is something wrong with praying about physical needs. This is a reflection of a pagan concept of life. The …

Topic:A Cry of Hope He said to them, When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Luke 11:2c The third cry of true prayer, again concerned with God, is a cry of hope, Your kingdom come. Now this can be a sigh for heaven. Who of us does not get homesick for heaven once in a …

Topic:His Name is Holy He said to them, When you pray, say, Father, hallowed be your name… Luke 11:2b The second petition of the Lord’s Prayer is one of surrender, Hallowed be your name. I am quite sure this is the petition that makes hypocrites out of most of us. For we can say, Father with grateful sincerity, but when …

Topic:Prayer to the Father He said to them, When you pray, say: Father… Luke 11:2a The Lord’s Prayer begins with a word of relationship, Father. May I point out that it is Father, not Daddy-o! There is a reverence about the word father that is absent in some modern expressions of fatherhood. It is essential to know to whom we …