February 8, 2010 The Journey 46

"Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be They 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, and I look out my window which faces to the east I see this red sky. And I am overlooking our 26 inch snow now plowed to the side of the driveway. And our weather people are saying that we have a big snow storm coming Tuesday night into Wednesday. Today I will be working the shovel and digging out a couple of vehicles. Today is the day we pray for our leaders and our military and all those who work to keep us safe and sound. Please on that prayer list include those who drive those plow trucks. Take it from one who spent 24 hour days twice this past week plowing snow, it is not easy. Today as we pray, please use the prayer our Lord Jesus taught us to pray...

As we journey with Jesus I want to take some time out to really dig into the prayer our Lord Jesus taught us to pray. It covers about all we need to pray. Yes, I wrote about this before, but I have asked God to give it to me fresh again this week. Let me start by asking you this question and I want you to search out your heart on this question. When you use this wonderful prayer, are you praying it and really thinking about what you are praying or, OR are you just saying this prayer as a group and it really does not mean much to you? A bunch of years back I was giving the message in a very nice church, where I was the Lay Leader. As a rule the Lord's prayer was printed in the bulletin but I did not put it in that week. While leading the prayer I forgot the words and stopped, and so did those in front of me in the flock. If it were not for "Miss Kim", the minister of music at the church who baled me out and picked up on the fact I was lost on this, I would have been really lost. After this I talked to God about the prayer and realized that I was not praying the prayer I was just saying the words.

So I really dug into the prayer, studied what the words really mean, asked God to really open this prayer for me. About once a year I need to refresh myself on this and today, let's do it together. This should take all week and during this week we are going to be praying the LORD'S Prayer a lot. I pray till the end of the week, we all look at the prayer as we should. A prayer that Jesus gave us. Let's start out like this...

The Journey 46: Matthew 6:9 - "Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be They 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)

Dear Father, open this prayer for us to really understand. In Jesus name. Amen.

Now let's pray the Lord's prayer together...

"Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be They 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."

Now let's break the prayer down and take a deep look at it...

"Our Father" - When I hear people talking about God and saying that God is female, and folks, there is nothing wrong with women, and I am not putting them down. But our Lord Jesus tells us that God is our Father, our Father in Heaven... He was/is The Father of our Lord Jesus, who was born to Mary here on earth, but Joseph had nothing to do with the planting of the seed in Mary, God did that through the power of the Holy Spirit. Thus the Virgin Mary, and Our Father in Heaven... Now I will tell you that "Our Father" can help us when we go to prayer and be like a mother to us. I lost my mother when I was young and my dad was wonderful, but God The Father got me through the death of my dear late mamma. "Our Father" should also be our very best friend and we should have no other over Him or even equal to Him in our lives. Now right up front as we study this prayer today I want to ask all of you... Do you want to see "Our Father" face to face someday? Of course we do, all of us. Now not only did Jesus teach us about this prayer but He taught us how to get to see "Our Father". For that let's us go to our Bible. (Where else would you go?)

John 14: 6 - Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: No man cometh unto the Father but by me." (KJV)

So folks, if we want to see "Our Father" face to face we first must know Jesus as our personal Savior. Folks, I am not talking about knowing who Jesus is, I am talking about knowing Him in your heart, not just your brain. So brothers and sisters, I think to finish out the first day of this prayer we should just stop now and clean our lives of sin and ask Jesus to come in or if you are Born Again already then to just renew in Jesus. So brothers and sisters, will you pray in faith with me right now?

Dear Father in Heaven, please, I ask that you forgive me of my sins, and wash me white as the snow you just sent us. The snow before it was plowed over. Clean me and then Jesus please come over me through the power of the Holy Spirit, put me on fire for You and Your word... Save me this day Jesus as I ask this in Your wonderful Name. Amen.

Now Go forth my dear brothers and sisters, knowing Jesus in your heart and sharing the blessings he has bestowed upon you and know this. Jesus really loves you, loves you enough that He died for You. And know this also... I love you... Pastor Dan.

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