Ten More Minutes on the Lord's Prayer

What if the most familiar prayer still has fresh work to do in your heart today? We sit with Luke 11 and the Lord’s Prayer and discover how simple words—Father, bread, forgive—reorder our lives from self-reliance to steady dependence. Rather than chasing the comfort of “more,” we explore what it means to become one-day ready: asking for enough for now, trusting God with tomorrow, and letting that posture transform how we work, parent, lead, and love.

We trace a clear progression that shaped the message: relationship leads to dependence, dependence leads to transformation. Through that lens, “Your kingdom come” stops being a phrase and becomes a practice. We talk about the already and not yet, the way God’s reign takes root in our daily choices, and why the Lord’s Prayer is stubbornly communal—full of our, us, and we. Along the way, Gideon’s story challenges our obsession with scale, reminding us that fewer resources can open greater space for God’s glory. Proverbs adds its own steady voice, warning that wealth cannot rescue when it counts most, but righteousness can.

You’ll also hear practical rhythms to make prayer learnable and visible: choosing a certain place, setting a time, and modeling faith for kids, friends, and teammates. We share how confession softens blind spots, why forgiveness must be a daily reflex, and how upward (hallowed be your name), inward (your will be done in me), and outward (give us, forgive us, deliver us) movements can reshape the way you approach decisions and tensions. If you’ve recited the Lord’s Prayer a hundred times, this is an invitation to live it—one honest request, one surrendered choice, one day at a time.

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Transcript

Familiar Text, Fresh Pastoral Lens

Ryan Ritchie 0:00

Well, welcome to Ten More Minutes. It's week two. Thanks for coming back. This is an original podcast from Cross Point Church where we just take a little extra time every week to sit with Sunday's message. I'm Ryan Ritchie. I'm joined today by Ross Strickland. And neither of us preached a message this week. Neither of us brought the message this past Sunday. But like many of you, we've been reflecting on it all week long. We've been lingering with it all week long. And so maybe something stayed with you this past Sunday. It stirred you. It challenged you. It left you wanting just a little bit more. And this is the space for us to slow down for just a second, to revisit that message together and to give it 10 more minutes. All right, Ross, let's get into it. 10 more minutes. Thanks for being here. Thanks for joining us. How now, uh, how many days have to go by after you shave the beard before I stop telling people something about the beard? It's like or can we move on from that conversation yet? It's probably gonna be a month. Yeah, it's like you're gonna keep getting comments until uh until you know it comes back until you can see the fruit of it again. Um, we we were in Luke chapter 11 this past Sunday, the Lord's Prayer, and a very familiar passage. This is one that you and I have both preached before. This is one that Pastor David has preached before. And you know, this week um he he brought maybe a different element or a different facet to that as you do anytime you're a preacher. There's something different between just being a preacher and then pastoring people, right? And sometimes if you pastor people long enough, it means you've got to come back to the same passage more than one time. And I know you've done that before, and I know you've also just addressed uh passages that are very familiar, like the Lord's Prayer. Uh, I just maybe wanted to start here today. How do you go about preparing a different message when you've done the same thing two times?

Ross Strickland 1:58

Yeah. Yeah. A lot of times that happens. You know, you walk them through different series, uh, you get asked to preach, and you're like, I preached this passage before. But you go back to it, and usually what I do is I take a look at the passage again. Uh, I sit down with my message because a lot of times my message, I have notes that I did not use on that on in that message. I've taken so many notes from things I've read, from things I've studied, and you really just got to cut out and just have what's ready for that message. And so there's been multiple times I've done that, and then I'll go back and I'll be like, oh, I didn't even use this whole section of notes, or maybe a source that I didn't even use the first time. And so then I kind of resit with that passage. Uh, I think about the context, I think about who I'm gonna be preaching to, what the church is going through, what our student ministry is going through, um, kind of what our series is we're talking about. And I kind of re-look at it through that lens. And sometimes it's very similar uh to the first time I preached it. Sometimes the heart of a text is the heart of a text and it doesn't change. Sure. Um, but there's some texts that, man, you read it three or four times and all of a sudden you have 10 different messages that you could go in different different directions. And so sometimes it just takes praying and just knowing, okay, what is it we're going through and what are we, what are we hoping that God's doing and stirring in my heart, but also in the church's heart uh as we revisit that passage.

Ryan Ritchie 3:07

Yeah, this is a day and age where there's a lot of formats like this around the world. You can listen to a lot of podcasts, you can go to a lot of YouTube videos, you can get a lot of content on any particular passage of scripture that you may want to, all the commentaries that have ever been written or online for you to find at the click of a button type of thing. And uh sometimes it's hard to open up a text that's very familiar, like the Lord's Prayer from this past week and feel like you're gonna impress anyone with some wealth of knowledge, right? Uh, but being a pastor is a lot more about the context of the people you're addressing. I thought Pastor David did an amazing job of leading us to the Lord's table this week as well, as we were doing Lord's Prayer and a Message, but we were also gonna celebrate the Lord's Supper as a church family. And so tying those two things together might have been a unique version of this message from one he's done before, but that context of leading a people changes the way that you prepare a message. Is that what you're saying?

Ross Strickland 4:03

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, because there's a lot of passages you teach, or even just different contexts, you know. Uh, just for example, one last week I talked to our students, and then last night I got to go to the VSU college and and taught to FCA. And I used a similar passage and a similar message, but it was completely different in some ways. Uh, even though it's the same passage, it was a different audience and different people in a different stage of life. And so we have to be thinking about who we're speaking to, um, and and even just go to God in prayer and say, What do you want me to teach? Yeah.

Relationship To Dependence To Change

Ryan Ritchie 4:32

I love what you said. You said sometimes the context of the passage doesn't change. It is what it is. And of course, we get in the Lord's Prayer, we're talking about prayer, you know. Uh, but every single line of the Lord's Prayer almost could be its own individual message because so much of what Jesus has to teach us uh just could be unpacked further and further. I feel like this week we lingered a little longer on um the daily bread element of that. But thinking back to where David was in this past Sunday's message, uh what's one area of his uh message from Sunday that you think and I just want to spend 10 more minutes on that.

Ross Strickland 5:07

Yeah. Yeah, I really loved uh his points this week. And I was kind of looking at them and just had I saw the natural progression. And um, I loved that uh the points this week were prayer begins with knowing we have a relationship with God, and then also prayer expresses our daily dependence on our Father. And then ultimately prayer is the evidence of transformed life. And and as I was thinking through that, and as I was listening to him Sunday, I heard this natural progression of our relationship with God leads to our dependence on God, which ultimately leads to our transformation. And that uh I loved just the aspect that we talked about and and that he even went into that prayer transforms on our heart. Um it helps us model our lives after who God's calling us to be. It redirects us, it kind of centers us and kind of brings us back into perspective of what God wants for us. Um and so that natural progression of like, man, you gotta have a relationship with the Lord. And whenever we do have a relationship relationship with him, it's gonna lead us to naturally just, hey, we go to God for everything now. Yeah, God, your kingdom come in my life right now. I need you for my daily bread, instead of us trying to provide it ourselves, as Ava was saying. And then ultimately it leads to, man, I now have a transformed life because of my dependence and relationship on God.

Dependence Versus Cultural Self-Sufficiency

Is Your Faith One Day Ready

Learning Prayer And Teaching Kids

Ryan Ritchie 6:15

Yeah. I love that. I love I the the the Pat the part of the message where he spent talking about dependence. That was the area that I just kind of really just leaned into that, you know. Um sometimes I'm sitting back and I I like kind of putting a couple of chairs together and put my arm around one chair, just cross my legs, lean back. There's times where something's said and it just makes me kind of get up on my seat, lean forward and lean into what's going on. And he talked about the idea that our culture celebrates self-sufficiency, but our faith is what's promoting complete dependence and reliance on Christ. And I feel like that's a message we need in our lives every day. You know, the bread was just good enough for a day, you know, and uh, you know, sometimes that's what that's all we need. And we have a culture that's saying, let's build more wealth, let's build more, you know, assurance of tomorrow, let's build more uh that we can just sort of keep within our own midst and work with our own hands to build what we can. Um, but God is saying to us, when when you ask for something, um let's just ask for what's good enough for today. Um reminded me of one of my favorite stories in the Old Testament from Judges chapter seven. Judges, yes. And Gideon is uh not sure that he wants to be, you know, a deliverer anyway, um, but then God says, I'm gonna deliver them into your hands, you know. And uh he says, I just need you to go out and and pick an army. And so he comes back with 20,000. And God says, No, that's that's way too many, you know, which is not what what I would say if I'm picking an army. I'd go, no, I need more. What are we talking about? That's too many. Like, I need more. He says, cut it in half. So they cut it in half, he sends everybody home that's too fearful to fight, and they come back with 10,000. God says, nope, that's still too many, right? And so then they have this weird test that they come up with, and it's about going to drink water. And he says, if anybody cups it with their hands, you know, let's send them home. But the ones that lap it like a dog, you know, let's pick those. And so there are 300 it says that lapped like a dog. And I don't know what the context of that is. Uh I did some research. A lot of people think different things. Here's kind of what I think that means. Find the dumbest 300 men that you can come up with, and I'm gonna fight with those and deliver the enemy into your hands so that you know I did this. I, the Lord your God, did this. And I think that's what we need. All conventional logic goes to the side whenever we think about following Jesus, because he can do things that we don't understand, he can lead us in ways that make no sense in our lives, and sometimes he calls us to do the thing that makes no sense whatsoever so that he can get all the glory and that complete reliance on him. I was reading in Proverbs 11 this morning, and I read this, it says, Wealth is not profitable on the day of wrath, but righteousness rescues you from death. And just reading that first phrase, wealth is not profitable. That doesn't make any sense. Wealth is nothing but profitable the way that we think of it in our day and time today. But what he's saying is, you can't take it with you. None of this stuff matters. What matters is a heart that pursues after Christ, even if that doesn't make sense to any of us. So I just loved that idea of complete dependence on Christ. Um David even said, you know, one day is enough for us, one day with Jesus is enough for us. And uh just made me think of this question. Um, is your faith one day ready? Uh-huh. If all the things were stripped away in life and you just had one day and one step at a time to walk with God and to listen to his voice, would our faith be one day ready? You know, and I think that's a really interesting thing to to take away uh from this message of dependence that uh really we've been sort of learning as a church for a few weeks now. So that's really, really neat. Um let's go here, just as at the end of our our time together. Um what's one thought maybe that came to mind from this past Sunday? Um, you know, something maybe that you would add and spend 10 minutes if you could do it. Uh, you know, one thing that came to mind as David was was speaking.

Ross Strickland 10:19

Yeah, I love this passage, you know, um the Lord's Prayer. Very common. Yeah. But when you read it in Luke, you're like, it's missing some words. You're like, it's missing parts that I recited on the football team or I recited it in the locker room, you know. And you look at it and you realize, oh, it's written down in different places, it's it's taught in different passages. Yeah. And um the one we're all familiar with is from Matthew, um, which is a synoptic gospel. It's a, it's another, it's one of the gospels where we see the same stories told from different perspectives. And and also we're we're led to believe that, you know, Jesus was an itinerant preacher. So he went around teaching his disciples, he went around teaching in different towns, and so this was probably a common message that he even taught was how to pray. Because here's the thing how many of us come out of the womb knowing how to pray? Have you ever had your kids like, you know, they're like, hey, I want to pray? And you're like, all right. And they pray and you're like, that was not a prayer. Okay, amen. Amen.

Ryan Ritchie 11:09

Let's let's let's wrap this thing up. Um, let's uh your your dolls are good. All right, I have one kid that like when he starts to pray, it could go an hour, and you're like, we're praying for everything. Thank you for the paint on the walls, right? Thank you for the mold in the ceiling. Like, Lord, we just love you so much, and we're just gonna go and point it. It's like an eye spy game, is what it is.

Upward, Inward, Outward Model Of Prayer

Ross Strickland 11:27

And so we look at that and we see like, one, we have to learn how to pray. Prayer is not natural for us. Prayer is something that has to be taught. And Jesus wants to make sure that we are taught how to pray. Um, and that's why the disciples asked that, Lord, how do we pray? And he wanted to make sure, hey, prayer is not just some recitation or reciting of a of a of words, but it's a natural heart position that's kind of open your hand, opening your hand, saying, God, I need you. And I love that, you know, both passages in Matthew and here in Luke are beautiful passages of just what the what what it looks like to pray. And and in those we see models, right? We see this upward look to God. Uh, that God, hallowed be your name, honor and glory to your name. The first thing we should do is worship. And then the second thing I love that he says, your kingdom come. And in Matthew's version, he says, and your will be done. And so he's he's saying, you know what, God, work in my life, make my heart new, make your kingdom in me, so that I can then go out into the world and do your will. That was one part.

Ryan Ritchie 12:28

I was I was called David this morning. I said, David, what's one part that you may want to add to this message from Sunday? And he said, Well, we spent so much time on the bread and we were getting ready for the Lord's Supper. He said, I wish I'd have spent more time on your kingdom come. I'm glad you said that.

Ross Strickland 12:42

Yeah. And so, and then he follows that up and in Matthew's passage he says, on earth as it is in heaven. And I think that's where we see his kingdom coming, is right now we live in the already but not yet. God has not has already saved us and redeemed us, but he's not fully restored the earth to its to its glory and to what he what his kingdom is going to be. But we're called to usher it in right now. And we do that through that dependence, through that prayer, through that relationship with him. And so we see that natural just thing out of these two prayers that there's an upward relationship with the Lord. There's an inward relationship where we're trying to kind of dig into our own hearts and let prayer be something that's not just a list of things we give, but it's a time where we reflect. It's a time where we are made uncomfortable. And um, and then finally, it's about saying, God, now your will be done. Then we look outward. He says, not only forgive my trespasses, but also forgive those who trespassed against me. And and this prayer is not meant to be alone, it's meant to be corporate. All the passage, all the words don't say my God. It doesn't say my will, it says yours and it says ours. And so he's constantly using this kind of communal language that that this prayer is not meant just for you by yourself, but it's meant to be done in in in a corporate setting and and with other believers around you. Yeah, and so I love that aspect of the passage.

A Certain Place: Modeling Daily Devotion

Forgive Us: Confession And Job’s Habit

Ryan Ritchie 13:58

You got me thinking about my kids and the way that they pray now. Like, like go, we've all you're like the consummate girl dad and the model for that, and I've got all boys, and so I'm sure the dinner table conversations look somewhat different. But man, prayer time turns into a fight sometimes at our dinner table of like who gets to do it. And you know, we'll say, Well, Major's gonna do it today, and then the rest of them are like, Oh, I wanted to do it, I wanted to do it. It's like, okay, this isn't what it's supposed to be. We gotta like let's focus, we're just gonna try and do it. Okay, can we get through this part? So I got this food in front of me. Anyway, sorry. Uh here here's one part that I was thinking of just as we were going through this together, but um it says in the beginning of this passage in Luke in chapter 11 that that Jesus came to a certain place. And uh, you know, I it it made me think of an image of my father-in-law. And I wanted to just say this to us today is our relationship with Jesus is not just for us. But you mentioned the corporate aspect of uh of this prayer model. Our our relationship with Jesus is also for those around us. It's a testimony for those that are watching us every day of our lives. And uh when my father-in-law got saved, he he took seriously the call to read scripture daily. And um my wife tells me stories of how when she woke up in the morning to get ready for school that he had already gone on his five-mile run, he had his cup of coffee ready to go, and he would sit in the same chair at the same time every day and open the Word of God and read it. And when she woke up and she got dressed and started heading out to the school bus, she would see every day of her life this man commit his heart and his life to following after the word of God in a certain place. Yeah. And I wonder if we're not that intentional about our daily walk with Christ in the sense that we go to a certain place at a certain time and we model our prayer life for others. You know, this question that the disciples asked of Jesus, teach us how to pray, it wouldn't have happened if they hadn't seen Jesus at a certain place praying to God. And there are people in our lives that need to ask us questions and need to know the answers, and maybe it's just simply that we're not that intentional about going to the same place every day and walking with Christ daily so that we can put our faith on display and others can see that. Yeah. And I just think that model from Jesus is one that would be really awesome for us to put into our lives. Let's find a certain place that we can walk with Christ and see if others around us, maybe it's just our children, maybe it's our spouses, maybe there's other people like friends and those around us that need to see us in a discipleship group out in the lobby or out in a coffee shop somewhere in the community, maybe see us praying with our teams as we go through sports and things like that. And when they see that, they begin to ask questions because they know I need to know how to do that. You know, can you help me with that? Yeah, and uh that's really something that I took away from that. Also, that phrase forgive us. Um, forgive us our trespasses. We could spend a whole episode talking about forgiveness and and and and how much forgiveness we need daily from God and how much forgiveness we need to give daily to those around us. But it reminded me of a passage from Job chapter one. You may remember this. Um, but as it's going through all the description of Job as a wealthy man and as a righteous man, the first ten verses kind of give you just an overview of who Job is. Uh somewhere in verse 10 at the very bottom of that, it says this. It says, Job said, It may be that my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. And so he prays for them and he asks for the Lord to forgive them. And then it says, Thus Job did continually. And just the idea that Job says, It may be that we've sinned. There are days we wake up and we have no idea the status of our life and our relationship with Jesus. If we really pause to think about it, we might be able to come up with some, but there's also ways in which our sin life and our thought life gets driven unconsciously in the wrong direction and we drift away from God. But I think if we every day, as it says Job did continuously, if we woke up and said, It may be that I've sinned in my heart against you today, Lord, forgive me. Yeah, bring me back to you. I want a relationship with you. What an amazing prayer to pray every day, as we're praying also for God to provide for us and to care for us and that his kingdom would come. Could we also just pray, God, forgive us? I don't even know right now what exactly I need forgiveness for, but Lord, it may be that I've been led astray and I want to walk closer with you. So would you forgive me right now? And how much would our prayer life change if that was kind of on our hearts, you know?

Ross Strickland 18:42

Yeah, absolutely.

Ryan Ritchie 18:44

Hey, let's let's kind of close in prayer right now. I know our church is still walking through 21 days of prayer and fasting, and so thank you for joining us for week two of 10 more minutes. One of the comments I got was that 10 more minutes wasn't 10 minutes. And uh Well, my bad. Okay, you know, that's it's just a prompt. It doesn't have to be right on the clock. I do have a clock in front of me, it's stressing me out right now. And so uh, you know, thank you for just joining us again, giving us 20 more minutes, but 10 more minutes uh on this podcast. And maybe there's a conversation that you want to be a part of here, and just want to ask you to maybe share this with some friends around you and and keep talking about what prayer life means in your life and in your walk with Christ and what Jesus is teaching you this week. And if you have a minute, comment back to us because I'd love to know what God is teaching you as we're going through this as a church family. Uh but Ross, would you spend a second and just pray for our church as we're walking through this time and learning how to pray?

Ross Strickland 19:36

Yeah, absolutely. Let's pray together. Father, we come before you as always humbled and thankful that we had to serve a God who saves and redeems those who are lost. And so right now, Father, be near to us, uh, continue to lead us and guide us to just trust you every single day. Father, reveal in our hearts who you are and what you've already done on our behalf. Uh Father, let us reflect on that. Let us trust you more. And Father, let us then go out and do the same to others. Let us share that good news with others. Um, Father, right now, uh, as we close this time out, as we continue on in our weeks, Father, let us just be the people of God you've called us to be, to lead a life that honors you and everything. We love you and praise you. Amen.

Ryan Ritchie 20:16

Amen.