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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Rocky High · Dec 2, 2025
In Matthew 6, Jesus gives His followers a template for powerful, effective prayer — one that begins not with personal requests but with recognizing who God is: our holy Father who sees what we cannot see. True prayer shifts us from building our own kingdom to aligning with God's kingdom, and it teaches us to bring our needs, our need for forgiveness, and our need for direction to a Father who listens and always answers — yes, no, or not yet — with our best in mind.
Pastor Daniel Goulding · May 20, 2024
In Matthew 6, Jesus corrects people who pray a lot but have missed the heart of it. Using the Lord's Prayer as a model — not a script — He shows that effective prayer begins with a clear picture of who God is: a holy, all-knowing Father who invites us into relationship. True prayer moves us from treating God as a heavenly genie into a posture of familiarity, expectation, humility, and dependency — where the goal is not extracting things from God but drawing closer to Him and being transformed by His presence.