Luke 11: Lord, Teach Us to Pray

Jesus teaches His disciples the Lord's Prayer and encourages them to keep asking, seeking and knocking, because the Father gives good gifts. He casts out a demon, teaches that those who hear and keep God's Word are blessed, and warns the Pharisees about caring for outward appearances more than the heart.

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¹ When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ Give us day by day our daily bread.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ “I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ “When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his plunder.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ “He who is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁴ The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁵ When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁶ Then he goes and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁷ It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁸ But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁹ When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁰ For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³¹ The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and will condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³² The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³³ “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁴ The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁵ Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁶ If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁷ Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in and sat at the table.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁸ When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁹ The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁰ You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴¹ But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴² But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁴ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁵ One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁶ He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁷ Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁸ So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁹ Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵² Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵³ As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵⁴ lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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Luke 11 · Preschool

Jesus Teaches Us to Pray

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“Give us day by day our daily bread.”

Luke 11:3 (WEB)

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Thank You, God, for making me!

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The Father Who Gives

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Jesus' disciples saw how often He prayed, and they asked Him to teach them. He gave them a model prayer. It begins with God: Father, may Your name be holy and Your Kingdom come. Then it turns to our needs: daily bread, forgiveness of sins, and protection from temptation. We forgive others because God has forgiven us.

Jesus then taught them to pray boldly. He told of a man who knocked on a friend's door at midnight, needing bread for a guest. The friend got up because the man kept knocking. Jesus promised that everyone who asks receives and everyone who seeks finds. Earthly fathers give good gifts, so our heavenly Father will surely give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him.

Some people accused Jesus of using the devil's power to cast out demons. Jesus said a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. Later, He warned the Pharisees for cleaning the outside of a cup but not the inside. God cares about our hearts, not just how we look.

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How does the Lord's Prayer begin?
Why do we forgive others?
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It begins with God: , may Your name be holy and Your Kingdom come.
Then it turns to our needs: daily , forgiveness of sins, and protection from temptation.
We others because God has forgiven us.
Jesus then taught them to boldly.
Earthly fathers give good gifts, so our heavenly Father will surely give the Holy Spirit to those who Him.

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Which part of the Lord's Prayer means the most to you right now? Why?
Jesus says God gives good gifts. What is one good gift from God you can thank Him for?

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“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Luke 11:9 (WEB)

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Dear God, thank You for this Bible story. Help me to . Amen.

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Hear the Word and Keep It

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Luke 11 opens with Jesus praying, and His disciples asking Him to teach them. The prayer He gave is short but deep. We come to God as Father, which tells us He is close and loving. We ask first for His name to be honored and His Kingdom to come. Then we bring our needs to Him: bread for each day, forgiveness, and help in temptation. Because we are forgiven, we also forgive everyone who wrongs us.

Jesus encouraged persistent prayer. A friend at midnight finally gets up because his neighbor keeps knocking. God is not a grumpy neighbor, but the point is clear: keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking. If sinful fathers know how to give good gifts, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask.

The rest of the chapter shows that people responded to Jesus differently. Some said He cast out demons by Beelzebul, but Jesus showed He was stronger than the strong man. A woman praised His mother, and Jesus answered that those who hear the word of God and keep it are blessed. He warned a generation that wanted signs, and He scolded the Pharisees for looking clean on the outside while being greedy inside.

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What does calling God Father teach us about Him?
What do we ask for first in the Lord's Prayer?
What is the point of the midnight friend story?
What did Jesus say about those who hear and keep God's Word?
What did Jesus warn the Pharisees about?

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The friend asked for bread at ____.
The disciples asked Jesus to teach them to ____.

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We should ____ others.
We ask for our ____ bread.
What we call God when we pray.
Ask, seek and ____.

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Jesus taught us to put God's name and Kingdom first when we pray. How could that change the way you pray?
What does it mean to keep God's Word, not just hear it? Give an example from your week.

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But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

Luke 11:28 (WEB)

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