Prayer & Fasting: Correct Attitudes

Sermon on the Mount (12-16)

Prayer & Fasting:

Correct Attitudes

(Matthew 6:5-8, 16-18)

If you do it for the crowd, the crowd is all you get.

If you do it for the Father, you get the Father.

Introduction: "Pics or it didn't happen"

I. Prayer (6:5-8)

A. How NOT to pray (6:5, 7-8):
like the hypocrites; like the Gentiles

B. How to pray (6:6):
place, privacy, privilege, promise

II. Fasting (6:16-18)

A. How NOT to fast (v. 16)

B. How to fast (vv. 17-18)

This week: One secret meal

"Your Father was in the room."

Kingdom people don’t live for applause; they live for the approval of the Father.