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Why Did Jesus Tell Us to Pray This Way?Most of us know the Lord’s Prayer by heart. We’ve heard it so many times that we ...
09/02/2026

Why Did Jesus Tell Us to Pray This Way?

Most of us know the Lord’s Prayer by heart. We’ve heard it so many times that we can recite it without even thinking about the words. But have we become so familiar with the Lord’s Prayer that we no longer stop to consider what we’re actually praying or what Jesus was teaching us?

Prayer is an essential part of our lives. Scripture tells us to pray, bring our requests to God, and make our needs known to Him. The Lord cares about what we care about, but we can’t focus so much on the need to pray that we forget how we pray matters just as much.

When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, He didn’t simply tell them to pray more often. He said, “Pray then like this.” He was giving them a pattern for how to approach the Father and what should be at the center of our prayers.

But how often do we rush into the Lord’s presence with our list of needs, wants, and requests, asking Him to change, fix, provide, or remove?

Have we made prayer primarily about what we want from God when Jesus intended our prayers to first draw our hearts near to Him?

We can recite “Your will be done” while still holding tightly to our own. We can say “Hallowed be Your name” without actually stopping to honor Him. We can ask for our daily bread while being consumed by the what-ifs of tomorrow. We can ask for forgiveness while never releasing someone else’s debt.

We can say the words without ever allowing the words to search our hearts.

Look at where Jesus begins: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.” Before our needs, His name. Before our plans, His kingdom. Before our will, His will.

Prayer isn’t just about getting God involved in our plans. It’s about bringing our hearts into alignment with His.

There is a difference between reciting a prayer and praying a prayer. One can come from memory while the other comes from the heart.

Maybe the prayer we’ve memorized for years is the very prayer God wants to use to teach our hearts to reverence Him, surrender to Him, trust Him, and seek Him above everything else.

The Lord isn’t simply looking for a wordy, eloquent prayer. He desires a heart willing to pray the way Jesus instructed us. A heart that honors Him, loves Him, trusts Him, surrenders to Him, and desires His will above its own.

The Lord’s Prayer | Matthew 6:9–13

09/01/2026

Farming Hearts || The Book of Matthew || Deacon Eric Arena

08/31/2026

My superficial reality!

Are You Patient in the Waiting Room?We all know what it feels like to pray about something and then wait. We may even he...
08/26/2026

Are You Patient in the Waiting Room?

We all know what it feels like to pray about something and then wait. We may even hear the answer, but then wait for the promise. Days turn into weeks. Weeks turn into months. Sometimes we can wait so long that we begin to wonder if we heard God correctly in the first place.

That’s where our faith is really tested.

There’s a difference between believing God can answer a prayer and continuing to trust Him when the answer hasn’t come yet.

It’s easy to have faith when we can see God moving. It’s harder when we’re standing in circumstances that don’t look anything like the promise He spoke.

But the waiting room isn’t where the Lord leaves us to figure things out on our own. He is right there with us. He wants to meet us there, encourage us there, strengthen us there, and remind us that we are not waiting alone.

We can become so focused on getting out of the waiting room that we miss the opportunity to simply sit with the Lord while we’re there.

Imagine it’s just you and Jesus in the room. You’re looking around, trying to find a way out, while He’s looking at you, waiting for you to let Him in.

He wants our hearts in the waiting room just as much as He does in the promises fulfilled.

James 1:3–4 says, “knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.”

Maybe the waiting is producing something in you that the answer itself never could.

If we’re honest, waiting can be exhausting. Waiting fatigue can cause wobbly knees. But wobbly knees may be just what we need to kneel.

Maybe the waiting room is where we learn to lean into Jesus a little more, trust Him a little deeper, and discover that His presence is enough to sustain us while we wait.

So while you’re waiting, keep praying, keep believing, keep obeying, keep your heart tender, and keep showing up.

Do not let the length of the wait convince you that God has changed His mind.

If He spoke the promise, you can trust His character while you wait for His timing.

The waiting room is never wasted time. God is doing something in the waiting that may matter more than what you are waiting for.

“Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!”
- Psalm 27:14

Are You Spiritually Famished? Spiritual famine happens when we try to survive on once-a-week meals.If we only ate once a...
08/19/2026

Are You Spiritually Famished? Spiritual famine happens when we try to survive on once-a-week meals.

If we only ate once a week, we would be weak, exhausted and unable to thrive.

Yet sometimes that is exactly how we feed ourselves spiritually. We expect to feel strong in our faith when we only feed ourselves on God’s Word once a week.

We won’t think twice about giving our bodies daily attention, while neglecting the one part of us that matters most… our soul.

Sunday is not meant to be our weekly spiritual meal. It’s an opportunity to gather, worship, hear the Word and encourage one another, but our relationship with Jesus is meant to be daily.

Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” - Matthew 4:4

Don’t try to live spiritually on Sunday’s portion. Open your Bible, pray, worship, sit with Jesus and feed your spirit daily.

You wouldn’t expect your body to thrive on one meal a week, so don’t expect your spirit to either.

Come hungry on Sunday… but don’t wait until Sunday to eat.

Feed your faith throughout the week, and join us again on Wednesday nights for Bible Study and let’s keep growing together.

08/18/2026

Boldness Among Wolves || Pastor Cliff Moore

08/14/2026

Scripture NEVER tells us that chasing after Jesus is easy! In fact, what the Scripture does promise us and even shows us is this. That when you follow after Him there will be many heartaches, many disappoints, sufferings of all kinds, tribulations, frustrations and even death. However, through all of that He guarantees us that He will be with us every step of the way. The mere fact that it is so challenging but yet so rewarding should really be the most encouraging thing about this journey. Jesus declares, "teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I Am with you always, even to the end of the age" Matthew 28:20 NKJV. We get to actually serve a God who is NOT oblivious to our earthly challenges and perpetually loves us through them all. WHAT TYPE OF GOD IS THIS??!!

Pastor Cliff Moore

Being in God’s Will Is Always Better Than Being on Time“Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen yo...
08/12/2026

Being in God’s Will Is Always Better Than Being on Time

“Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart.” -Psalm 27:14

Somewhere along the way, society has made being busy and rushing badge-worthy.

We wear our busyness like a sign of importance. We celebrate how much we can accomplish, how little we can rest, and how quickly we can get from one thing to the next.

But the reward of hurry is often stress, anxiety, and exhaustion.

Scripture reminds us that there is strength found in waiting on the LORD. Waiting doesn’t mean we’re doing nothing. It means we’re trusting God enough not to run ahead of Him.

There is a rhythm to walking with God. There are times to move and times to wait, times to work and times to rest, times to speak and times to be still.

But our culture tells us that if we aren’t moving at the world’s pace, we’re lazy or falling behind.

Habakkuk 2:3 says, “Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”

God was reminding Habakkuk that what He had spoken had an appointed time. Though it might seem slow, it didn’t mean God was late.

Just because something isn’t happening according to our timeline doesn’t mean God isn’t working.

Often, it’s in the waiting that He is doing the deepest work in us.

We can become so concerned about being on time that we forget to ask whether we are moving according to God’s time.

What good is arriving on time if we get there ahead of God?

Sometimes faith means moving, sometimes it means staying, and sometimes faith means waiting for the appointed time.

But faith almost never means rushing.

We should be asking, “Lord, what are You asking me to do today?” Then do that. And trust Him with the rest.

His timing may require patience, but His presence gives us peace in the waiting.

Don’t measure your progress by how quickly things happen. Simply stay in step with Jesus.

Because being in God’s will is always better than being on time.

And just to clarify… this does NOT apply to being on time for church. 😉
See you all Sunday at 10 AM!

08/11/2026

Helper, Helpless, Helpmeet || Emmanel Church

08/10/2026

One of the most controversial scriptures ever!

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