Pray.
You hear this word all the time, don't you? Maybe if not all the time, you do hear it, and you do know what it means. Pray. Seek God. Communicate with God. Entreat God, praise God, thank God, seek God. Pray.
Jesus told the apostles to pray in this manner-
Mat 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Mat 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Mat 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
Mat 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Mat 6:13 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.
Acknowledge the Father God in heaven.
Acknowledge the Holiness of the Father God in heaven.
Desire the kingdom of God to arrive.
Desire God's will to be done here on earth just as it is done in heaven.
Ask God for daily bread- physical and spiritual.
Ask God to forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who have sinned against us.
Ask God to lead us not into temptation.
Ask God to deliver us from evil.
Acknowledge God's is the KINGDOM, God's is the POWER, God's is the GLORY, forever. Amen.
On our subject of the kingdom -
We are to DESIRE the kingdom.
Here read this- I read this in a section of my daily read the Bible in a year Bible and it jumped out at me.
Lam 3:31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
Lam 3:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Lam 3:33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Lam 3:34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Lam 3:35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Lam 3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
The part that jumped out at me most was this--
'...the prisoners of the earth…'
Unless we have our hope placed in the Kingdom of God to come, we are truly prisoners of the earth aren't we?
Prisoners of earth.
We are born into a world of sin, prisoners of this world and our only hope of a better world is found in Christ's Kingdom, the Kingdom He came to proclaim, the Kingdom He promises.
We are to PRAY for this kingdom, we are to recognize this kingdom that is God's, we are to desire this kingdom that is God's. A world so much better than this world.
Our prayers must include the kingdom, the word is mentioned TWICE in the manner of praying the Lord gave to His apostles. We are drawn towards the Kingdom in so many ways, and yet we refuse to live our lives as pilgrims here, as prisoners here that look for a home in the kingdom, that look for freedom in the kingdom to come.
We act as if this life is it for the most part, but it's just the very teeny, tiny tip of eternity promised to us who will live in the Kingdom with Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!
Do we suffer now? Yes, in a myriad of ways. Is it often times horrific? Yes. Our hope has to be on the KINGDOM and all that means, not on the earth at all!
Prisoners of the earth.
Please Lord, set us free to live with YOU in YOUR kingdom! Let us be YOURS, freely YOURS because You hold no one prisoner, not ever!
By YOUR GRACE, MERCY, and LOVE!
You hear this word all the time, don't you? Maybe if not all the time, you do hear it, and you do know what it means. Pray. Seek God. Communicate with God. Entreat God, praise God, thank God, seek God. Pray.
Jesus told the apostles to pray in this manner-
Mat 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Mat 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Mat 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
Mat 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Mat 6:13 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.
Acknowledge the Father God in heaven.
Acknowledge the Holiness of the Father God in heaven.
Desire the kingdom of God to arrive.
Desire God's will to be done here on earth just as it is done in heaven.
Ask God for daily bread- physical and spiritual.
Ask God to forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who have sinned against us.
Ask God to lead us not into temptation.
Ask God to deliver us from evil.
Acknowledge God's is the KINGDOM, God's is the POWER, God's is the GLORY, forever. Amen.
On our subject of the kingdom -
We are to DESIRE the kingdom.
Here read this- I read this in a section of my daily read the Bible in a year Bible and it jumped out at me.
Lam 3:31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
Lam 3:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Lam 3:33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Lam 3:34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Lam 3:35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Lam 3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
The part that jumped out at me most was this--
'...the prisoners of the earth…'
Unless we have our hope placed in the Kingdom of God to come, we are truly prisoners of the earth aren't we?
Prisoners of earth.
We are born into a world of sin, prisoners of this world and our only hope of a better world is found in Christ's Kingdom, the Kingdom He came to proclaim, the Kingdom He promises.
We are to PRAY for this kingdom, we are to recognize this kingdom that is God's, we are to desire this kingdom that is God's. A world so much better than this world.
Our prayers must include the kingdom, the word is mentioned TWICE in the manner of praying the Lord gave to His apostles. We are drawn towards the Kingdom in so many ways, and yet we refuse to live our lives as pilgrims here, as prisoners here that look for a home in the kingdom, that look for freedom in the kingdom to come.
We act as if this life is it for the most part, but it's just the very teeny, tiny tip of eternity promised to us who will live in the Kingdom with Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!
Do we suffer now? Yes, in a myriad of ways. Is it often times horrific? Yes. Our hope has to be on the KINGDOM and all that means, not on the earth at all!
Prisoners of the earth.
Please Lord, set us free to live with YOU in YOUR kingdom! Let us be YOURS, freely YOURS because You hold no one prisoner, not ever!
By YOUR GRACE, MERCY, and LOVE!
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