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.
Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for another great day. Thanks for again blessing Carry The Light Ministries. Please, Lord, keep watch over those on our prayer lists, and please, Lord, grant traveling safety to Jeff, Danelle, and their family as they head out for vacation. Bless others on the road also. Lord, please intervene in Florida in the court case that is going on so that thee is no civil disobedience when the case is over. Please, Lord, protect Your people of all colors. Lord, it seems there are people in the news pushing for things to go wrong. Lord, please help people stand arm in arm and prevent this. Now, Lord, please help me with the message and then dispatch it, please. In Jesus' Name, I send forth our prayers. Amen.
Pastor Dan's Safety Tip: To gain extra years of life on earth: Drive with care, don't drink and drive, and Honor your father and mother. (Yes, it is all from the Bible.) Can yo tell me where?
Hi, brothers and sisters. If I sound like a broken record when I thank God for another great day, I am just telling God like it really is, a great day. Dolores was at the eye doctors today and yes, she has 20/20 eyesight after her surgery. She will be wearing glasses to make her vision even sharper and to prevent her eyes from becoming tired. GOD IS GOOD, thank You, Jesus!! Today some geese crossed the road in front of me as we drove along the creek. I stopped and honked at them to get them off the road. They must have loved me, as they honked back! Speaking of families, a father and mother tomato were taking their children for a walk. Their smallest would keep falling back, and father tomato would go back and try and hurry him along. This went on for awhile until dad got mad and went bad and stepped on his son and said "catch up." Okay, I will stop and get to the message. Remember, we are looking at the Lord's Prayer.
Thursday, July 11, 2013, The Lord's Prayer (Day Four).
Prayer 4: Matthew 6:9 - This, then is how you should pray: "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." (KJV)
Let's get started today with "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven." Yes, folks, it does say "in earth" in he King James Version of the Bible, however, in the New International Version it says "on earth." If we follow what our Lord Jesus taught us, we are praying for "thy" will to be done, meaning the Will of our Father in Heaven. I have been asked about if we pray for Thy will to be done in earth as in Heaven, why then do we have sickness her on earth because the Bible tells us that we will not have sickness in heaven. It is called sin, folks, sin. Also to help us all better understand that I want to go to Matthew 26:39 and take a look at what happened when Jesus prayed at Gethsemane the night before He was put to death on the cross.
Matthew 26:39 - Going a little farther, He fell with His face to the ground and prayed. "My father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. yet not as I will but as You will." (NIV)
We see the example that Jesus set once again by not just telling us in the Lord's Prayer to pray for Thy will to be done, but also by showing us. He did just that the night He was arrested an the night before He was put to death on the cross. Here we find Jesus praying to His/Our Father in Heaven and asking if He had to go through with this. I guess when it comes to the end, Jesus did not want to be put to death like this. Jesus knew it was not going to be a pleasant thing. So He asked but at the same time prayed to His/Our Father in Heaven stating it was God The Father's will that was to be done and not His own. So our Lord Jesus was killed here on earth for us of course, but that would not have happened in Heaven. Heaven, of course, will be full of peace and no hurts like this, and of course no sickness like we suffer through down here on earth. Again, it has to do with sin, our sins, which is why of course Jesus was sent down to save us.
So the things we are asking or saying is, Lord, it would be nice to have no sickness, no cancers, down here on earth, like it is in Heaven, but Lord, it is Your will to be done. Now I want to help you understand why some suffer with cancers or pain in some way or another. Let's look at Romans.
Romans 5:3 - Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, 4 perseverance, character, and character, hope 5 and hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us. (NIV)
So what does it mean? Well, first of all, God is going to heal us in His time, and in the meantime as we deal with what ails us, it tends to make us stronger in faith and love for our Lord Jesus. And indeed sometimes total healing does not occur until we are called home.
Let's move on with "Give us this day our daily bread." Now in this wonderful, wonderful prayer, we are just asking for our daily bread, our manna from heaven, so to speak. If we really trust God, we know that we will be furnished our needs each day. If we work for Him and also work for our keep. The Bible does tell us this, if a person will not work, then he should not eat. That is plain and simple in the Bible. While we do need to help the poor, and that means the working poor, and we need to help those who cannot work, there are a lot of people out there who according to the Bible just plain should not eat. There are a lot of people riding the systems of our states and our great nation and if they would get their lazy backsides to work, our state and national debts would come down. Then there are a lot of them who do work but keep on the system by working and getting paid "under the table."
Folks, as you know, we have a food pantry, and we do not ask a lot of questions. If someone tells us they need food help, they do get it. Just today we received a call from someone wanting us to pay their taxes or they would lose their home. Of course I refused, we do not have that kind of money and we already helped and will help this family with food. Folks, you know this old man and I tell it like it is. In feeding others from the food pantry it is part of our outreach to teach people how to help themselves. We have a wall board with a pack of smokes on it and ten boxes of mac and cheese. If people give up one pack of smokes they can purchase ten boxes of mac and cheese to help feed their family. However, the bottom line in helping others is this, all of us must answer to God for our own behavior, so those "riding the system", or cheating, will need to deal with that with God.
Okay, I got off beat a tad, but Give us this day our daily bread is great, and Jesus goes so much beyond that. How long has it been since you sat down to a meal of bread because it was all you had? I hear people talking now about stocking up on food for a long term because of the way our world is. We stock in our personal shelf, food for if the electric goes out, food you need not cook, but for long term. I trust in what the Bible tells me and He will supply our needs. He supplies us far beyond our needs, He supplies us a lot of our wants. God is good, please say PRAISE THE LORD.
Okay, time now to leave for the day, and yes, we are going to pray the Lord's Prayer, for by the end of the week I want you to know it and also understand it so you don't just say it, you pray it. Let's pray.
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.
Now go forth, and please, please share your blessings. Love ya, and please pass that on.
Pastor Dan
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