KingsGate Community Church
Living Securely
– with Dave Smith
KingsGate Community Church is a UK-based multi-cultural, inter-generational church with campuses in Peterborough, Cambridge, Leicester and Online, and a mission to see lives transformed from our neighbourhoods to the nations by the power of God's love.
LIVING SECURELY
Matthew 6:3, 5, 16 NIVUK
1 – Father-Focused Praying
Matthew 6:5 NIVUK
Matthew 6:6 NIVUK
Matthew 6:8 NIVUK
Matthew 6:9 NIVUK
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 sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
And lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
For yours is the kingdom, the power,
and the glory for ever. Amen.
Matthew 6:9-13
His Presence (Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name)
His Purpose(Your Kingdom come, your will be done)
His Provision(Give us today our daily bread)
His Pardon(Forgive us… as we forgive)
His Protection(Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil)
2 – Father-Focused Fasting
Fasting - A spiritual discipline that is taught in the Bible…whereby we voluntarily reduce or eliminate our intake of food for a specific time and purpose.
Matthew 6:16-18 NIVUK
Matthew 6:18 NIVUK
· Spiritual Victory and Breakthrough(2 Chronicles 20)
· Protection (Ezra 8:21-23)
· Deliverance(Isaiah 58:6; Mark 9:28-29)
· Health and Healing(Isaiah 58:8)
· Subduing of the Soul (Psalm 35:13)
· Disciplining of the Body (1 Cor. 927; 2 Cor 12:27)
· Victory over Temptation(Matthew 4:1-11)
· Increased Intimacy with God(Luke 2:37)
· Hearing from God(Acts 13:2-3)
· Preparation for New Seasons of Ministry(Matthew 4:1-11; Acts 13:2-3, 14:23)