February 11, 2010 The Journey 49

"Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the Kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen."

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is a beautiful morning here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. I will try today and get a few pictures of our back yard. We have received 40 plus inches of snow over the past days and it has been cold and windy. Gosh, I love this global warming!!

I really don't understand what is going on in Washington DC for they have record snow. I think if we put all of the politicians on the steps of the Capitol and let them give a speech the HOT AIR should melt the snow. Ah, I made that up. And with the Capitol closed and no one coming to work, who is going to sit around and do nothing? (I am so bad.) Anyway it is beautiful and it is family day on the line.. Brothers and sisters, with the kids out of school, and a lot of parents not able to get to work, it would be a good time for these families to get together and pray, and then go and play in the snow. Build a snowman, make snow angels, slide down a hill on a sled, or if you don't have a sled, get a big piece of cardboard. Then come in the house, make some hot chocolate and get out a board game, checkers, monopoly, or something. You could even have a "Tea Party". Pray and play this day for it is indeed family day on the line. Please also keep praying for Ronald and others with cancer and for Vicki who along with all her health problems her heat went down. Others have been days and days without electric. Brothers and sisters, all of you in the wake of the storm, relax and trust God for He is indeed in control. He knows what we need... Amen.

Dear Father in Heaven, during this storm when many are without heat and water in their homes, please protect them, and Father, with so many home from school and their parents home from work, Lord bless them and let them enjoy each other with You in the lead. Father, bless this family day, and watch over Your children, and Lord, please let us all know how this snow will melt into the ground and form a great water table for the coming summer. Lord Your healing hand is needed on cancers and on bad hearts, and Lord, fingers that have been caught in snow blowers. Lord, please, please keep blessing this line. Thanks for trusting me to write it... In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen.

The Journey 49: Matthew 6:9 - "Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. 10 Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the Kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen." (KJV)

Today we are going to take a look at this wonderful prayer again and look at this part - "Thy Kingdom come." Now as we over the years have prayed this prayer our Lord Jesus asks us to pray, have we really given thought about what we are praying? Think of this line, "Thy Kingdom Come". What are we asking God on this part? We are indeed praying for God's Kingdom to come, meaning we are praying for Jesus to come back to get us? So as we pray this, I must ask you, do you really mean this? Do you really want Jesus to return right now? Are you ready if He would return today? Brothers and sisters, I do, I have studied the prayer, and I am ready for the Lord to return. I think it would be wonderful. But in the meantime we have work to do, we have the "Good News" to tell others. Let's look at some scripture to support this in the prayer.

John 14:3 - "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." (KJV) This was/is Jesus speaking, my dear friends.

Revelation 22:12 - "Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done." (KJV) - Words of Jesus

Brothers and sisters, I am writing on this wonderful prayer that Jesus gave us because for years and years and years I just said the words, I did not really think about what I was "praying" and if you do not think about what you are praying then you are just uttering words, and if you do this, surely God knows you are not praying in faith. Tomorrow we will dig into the prayer deeper and we will look at what this prayer means to me. I want you to really think about what it means to you. How many of you have just said the words in church? While some churches use the prayer each week, and I do that at The Bridges, others never use it. It might not need to be used each week, but surely this wonderful prayer should be used and surely we need to know what we are praying, and we need to be praying it in faith... Amen.

Now go forth, sharing your blessings, and sharing the love of Jesus with others, and please, tempers might get short when you are out in this weather. Calm down and enjoy it... love ya, Pastor Dan.

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