Thursday 2/26/15 Talking to God (2)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Thanks for another great day, and thanks for watching over us. Please, Lord, keep watching over those on this line and their families, and thanks for watching over the line. Please, Lord, be with our military, first responders, police, and all who are working to protect us. Lord, please keep watch over all those who must be working out in the weather. Lord, as You look after those who are Born Again, please apply that same protection over those non-believers and help us have more time to reach them in time to get them to Your feet to be saved. Lord, please be with all those who have memory problems and cause that disease to be stopped. Please, Lord, help me now with the message and then to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Good evening, brothers and sisters. Each day I sign off "Love ya." I want you to know that is not just a closing, I really do love all of you. I can truthfully say that, and a lot of you I do not know. I will also say this, more than anything or anybody, I LOVE JESUS FIRST. If you truly love Jesus above others, tell that to Jesus and also the others. It was a beautiful day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole and I pray that it was that way where you are. Time to get to the message, Talking to God.

Thursday: February 26, 2015: Talking to God (Day Two)

Matthew 6:9b - "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, for ever. Amen." (KJV)

Yesterday I brought you up-to-date on why once again I am writing about the Lord's Prayer. Yesterday we covered Matthew 6:9b. Today we will start with verse 10.

Matthew 6:10 - Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. (KJV)

When we are praying, the "Thy" we are talking about here is God. My NIV words the prayer like this: "your kingdom come, your will be done." Now as much as I like my NIV study Bible, one thing I do not like is they do not use the capital letter when talking about God. If you were praying or writing the prayer and used the line I just quoted about, it should have been written like this. Your kingdom come, Your will be done. One way or the other, when we are praying this verse, we are indeed saying it is God's kingdom and then more so, and listen to me  here, we are indeed saying to God to bring on His kingdom. "Thy kingdom come." We could be praying in our own prayers like this: Come on back, Jesus, come on back. Then in the same line we are praying, Thy will be done. Not our will, Lord, but Your will be done. Yesterday I used this verse to show you that Jesus prays to the same Father in Heaven we do. Here again I am going to that verse.

Matthew 26i:39 - "My Father, if it is possible may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but AS YOU WILL." (NIV)

So what are we praying? We are praying that above all else, above even what we are asking for ourselves in any of our talks with God, we are saying for His will to be done. And I will tell you right here and now that His will is always better for us. We might not like it, but He has a plan for us. He knows what is best in the long term. For a lot of us we cannot see beyond the end of our nose, although that could be a lot longer for some than others. I just slipped a joke in there to see if you are awake.

Verse 10 - "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."

Here is the really neat part. We are asking His will to be done for us the same here on earth as we expect it to be in Heaven. Like just saying to God, please be the same with me now as when I make it to heaven. Yes, Lord, please make my earthly home heavenly. The thing I want you to really think about is it should be His will be done for us in all things, not just when we pray this wonderful prayer. Okay, that is good for today. Let's pray the prayer again today and really pray it.

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, for ever. Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings. Love ya. And please share your love with everybody and my love also.

Pastor Dan