Prayer That Covers Basics

 

Matthew 6: 7-13, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not use any repetitions as the heathens do. Where they think they will be heard for their many words. Therefore, do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him, in this manner, therefore, pray; Our Father in Heaven Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

When you read Matthew chapter 6, you find the Our Father is usually referred to as the Lord’s Prayer, and it came from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ himself.

People who are not acquainted with the Lord yet need a way to pray. At first, it is just words to many people. The amazing thing is, as you continue every day saying this prayer, you will start to think about what it actually means one verse at a time.

It is a fact that even the most experienced teachers of the Bible, pray the Our Father daily. If you think about what the words are saying, great peace comes over you, and you start to see Almighty God working in your life.

Take your journey in faith, one step at a time. Don’t worry about the next step, or where someone else’s faith is. Almighty God and the Holy Spirit will lead where you are able. If what I say is not true, ask yourself why the Lord Jesus Christ Our Savior taught it to people. God Bless you and your family. Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus loves you.

Prayer of Salvation.

My Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you and Praise you for what you did on the cross for me. By your stripes I was healed and your blood washed away my sins. Your death and resurrection made my salvation possible. I confess my sins, and I ask you to come into my heart as my personal savior. Amen! 

Praise The Lord!

My Time With Jesus Tuesday

What God Expects

Luke 12:47-48, and that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

At some point in life many people wonder why other people have so much, and some have little or nothing. Only Almighty God can answer that. We must realize though that Almighty God has a reason for everything He does. Most times He is trying to teach us something for our good.

Matthew 25: 40- 45, and the King will answer and say to them, assuredly, I say to you, and as much as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. Then he will answer them, saying, assuredly, I say to you, in as much as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.

If you want to read the entire story of these two verses, you will find it in Matthew chapter 25 verses 33 through 45. The Lord Our Savior takes the idea of giving personally, because it shows our Lord our love and compassion for others, as well as Praising Him for His love and compassion toward us.

Proverbs 11: 24-25, there is one who scatters, yet increases more; and there is one who withholds more than is right, but it leads to poverty. The generous soul will be made rich, and he who waters will also be watered himself.

Many of us have experienced what these Proverbs tell us. How many times has something happened to our money at the worst possible time, and how about the times we receive something good that we didn’t expect.

Every one of us is blessed with something. It is our duty to share something with others. Our sharing could be for instance our time, our physical energy, our knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, and so on. Even the act of helping someone in need of any kind is very big in the eyes of the Lord.

Matthew 25: 29, for everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

What all these Proverbs and verses have been trying to tell us is that the harder you try with greed and fear to hang on to what you have, you will lose it, but as you give you will never be without. All these things are between you and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. With a loving heart, do for others what God does for you. God bless you and your family. Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus Loves You.

Prayer Of Salvation.

My Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you and Praise you for what you did on the cross for me. By your stripes I was healed and your blood washed away my sins. Your death and resurrection made my salvation possible. I confess my sins, and I ask you to come into my heart as my personal savior. Amen! 

Praise The Lord!

God's Promises Sunday

The Greatest Evil

Isaiah 5:20, woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Though written before the time of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, it is a perfect description of our times.  Everything seems to be the opposite of what it really is. It seems everyone has their own version of truth, and most people do not see evil. How did all of this evil begin? The truth is, since the beginning of man on Earth.

Ephesians 6:12, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the Heavenly places. 

Evil has a name; it is called politics. Do not think it is just Republicans and Democrats. satan is the father of evil, and almighty God the father of good. It really is spiritual, and worldwide. In case you aren’t sure about the definition of evil, it is profoundly immoral and wicked behavior.

People look for a leader that will stop evil and bring harmony to our country and the world. I guess that’s what they thought at the beginning of the tribulation. Evil goes so deep and is so extreme, no man can fix it.

Romans 12:19,  beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord.

Since we are dealing with a spiritual battle, we must realize it is a heart thing. Only God Almighty can change Hearts. Is there anything we can do?

2 Chronicles 7:14, If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Whether you agree or not, each day is one day closer to Eternity. No matter what your version of Truth, the fact is it applies to each of us. Take heed, we will not know the day of judgment until it happens. At that point, it is too late. The time to get right with the Lord is now.

Romans 10: 9- 10, if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. And verse 13, for whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

God bless you and your family. Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus loves you.

Prayer of Salvation.

My Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you and Praise you for what you did on the cross for me. By your stripes I was healed and your blood washed away my sins. Your death and resurrection made my salvation possible. I confess my sins, and I ask you to come into my heart as my personal savior. Amen! Praise The Lord!

The Key Is Salvation

John 3:16, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

To spend eternity with our creator, we must accept the gift of Salvation, freely given to us by Almighty God.

Romans 10:9-10, that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Ephesians 2:18-19, for by Grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

As we can see, salvation is a decision we must make. Yes or no, it is up to each of us to decide. It is important to meditate on the verses and let our hearts tell us. The Holy Spirit will guide us in the way we should go.

Titus 3: 5, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit.

Reading the Bible regularly and talking to our Heavenly Father will help our faith grow stronger and change our lives and the lives of those we love, forever.

There are no shortcuts, and it requires perseverance, but the reward is priceless. You must know the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit to get the full benefit of what the scriptures are telling you. I have listed a few more verses below to help you in your quest to find the Lord.

Mark 16:16, he who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.

Romans 6:23, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our lord.

John 6: 44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.

Acts 4:12. Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

Acts 16:31, so they said, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.

There are too many verses to list all of them but I believe this gives you a good place to start. God bless you and your family. Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus loves you.

Prayer of Salvation.

My Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you and Praise you for what you did on the cross for me. By your stripes I was healed and your blood washed away my sins. Your death and Resurrection made my salvation possible. I confess my sins, and I ask you to come into my heart as my personal savior. Amen! 

Praise The Lord!

My Time With Jesus Tuesday

The truth

Proverbs 3:13,  happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding.

Many people think they know the Lord Jesus Christ because they saw a couple of movies. What they don’t really understand is, many scenes and conversations are pure Hollywood and made up. If you want to know the real lord Jesus it takes some work.

Movies do not give you the real person, and why he does or says anything. The Bible on the other hand tells you the facts. For instance. No movie will tell you how to be saved. Many churches won't tell you either. The Bible makes salvation known to anyone who cares to find out.

When the Lord Jesus Christ spoke in Parables to people, he associated his story with things that people already knew about and the culture. It isn’t always clear until you really meditate on it and do some studying. Again, this is something most churches do not get into.

In movies you saw, I can think of only one time that Jesus smiled. I’m sure he smiled a lot of the time and didn’t look so somber and Stern. When Jesus spoke to Children, or people that believed in him I’m sure he did plenty of smiling. He was a real person just like us. He knew everything about how we saw things, the temptations we faced, and the exhaustion we felt, because for a while, he was like us.

Not too long ago I started explaining things and that many people  probably never even heard about. With the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, we will take a journey at times to find these hidden gems that will help you understand who the Lord Jesus Christ really is and what’s he wants through his word.

My friends, I found out a long time ago that spending an hour a day with the Lord rather than watching TV made my life so much better because I really got to learn more about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Please consider giving a part of your day to get to really know the joys of your salvation. God bless you and your family. 

Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus loves you.

Prayer Of Salvation.

My Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you and Praise you for what you did on the cross for me. By your stripes I was healed and your blood washed away my sins. Your death and Resurrection made my salvation possible. I confess my sins and I ask you to come into my heart as my personal savior. Amen! 

Praise The Lord!

God's Promises Sunday

Where Your Faith Is

Hebrews 11:1, Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

The definition of faith is complete trust or confidence in someone or something. In biblical times, many people saw and heard what our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ said and did. Some believed but most did not. 

Now we look at today. We have the written word of God to show us the plan of our creator. We see eyewitness accounts about the teachings and examples of the works of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Shall we accept or reject? It is our choice.

John 14:12-14, most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name I will do it.

Many people do not understand what this verse really means. They pray and try as hard as they can to believe the results they want. Waiting for the manifestation of the answer is discouraging and usually results in some level of unbelief. So, what is wrong? Does Almighty God not here?

We quote verses that apply, and really try, but no results. Answer this question and you’ll get the answer. Are you trusting in your faith to make things happen, or is your faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to keep his word? When you put your faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you can believe that there will be an answer if you have patience and wait on God’s timing.

Pray and believe in the One who can do it. It really is that simple. God bless you and your family. Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus loves you.

Prayer of Salvation.

My Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you and Praise you for what you did on the cross for me. By your stripes I was healed and your blood washed away my sins. Your death and Resurrection made my salvation possible. I confess my sins, and I ask you to come into my heart as my personal savior. Amen! 

Praise The Lord!

Stretch Your Faith

2 Corinthians 5:7, for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Faith is quite a subject to meditate on. When you tell most people to meditate, they will tell you they don’t know how to meditate. So, they spend the greater part of their life worrying about everything. 

If you give this idea of meditating any thought at all, you will come to realize that worry is actually negative meditation. Being so sure everything will go wrong is faith in the negative. Same effort, different results.

As usual I have a theory. This concerns negative faith. It is much easier in the minds of many people to have no faith. When you have no faith, you don’t have to read and trust the word. You don’t have to be disappointed if your prayers are not answered. You think miracles don’t happen anymore. Negativity becomes like a security blanket, very comfortable.

Hebrews 11:1, now Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of Things Not Seen.

Having real faith is an adventurous kind of thing. You read the word and believe what it says. You start to exercise your faith with little things, possibly something like a parking space. As you study more and expand your prayers, you start getting bigger results. You might even consider a prayer unanswered if it doesn’t turn out the way you expected. When you think about it though, you can see it makes sense that it turned out the way it did. So, your faith does not go into a tailspin.

No sincere prayer goes unanswered. You will get to the point where you can write down a prayer that is so detailed that most people would say it is impossible. They probably don’t know that nothing is impossible with God

I find that writing a prayer down, in detail, and quoting scripture that fits the situation, brings a prayer to life. After you write it, pray it out loud, and you put it into the spirit world where it can work. Immediately thank God that you received your answer, and just believe. Thank God every day for the answer to your prayer and speak only positive words. Faith is made to be stretched because that is the way God made it. 

Romans 10:17, so then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

God bless you and your family. Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus loves you.

Prayer of Salvation.

My Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you and Praise you for what you did on the cross for me. By your stripes I was healed and your blood washed away all my sins. Your death and resurrection made my salvation possible. I confess my sins, and I ask you to come into my heart as my personal savior. Amen! 

Praise The Lord!

My Time With Jesus Tuesday

Faith Unveiled

Mark 11:24, And therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

This message concerns a discovery of faith that can drastically change how you look at prayer. I have prayed for myself and others many times. Sometimes I saw what I prayed for, sometimes not. Sometimes it was a struggle to believe but stick to it anyway. Some time ago I bought a book by F F Bosworth. He lived over 100 years ago, and was a great man of Faith, especially for healing. The book itself is about faith for anything not just healing.

I thought the book was pretty good, but for some reason I pretty much forgot about it after I read it. I have it on my Kindle in the archives, so I haven’t really seen it since then. The other night my wife asked me to read something inspirational. She felt that it might help when we pray, especially at church. I looked at a number of books by famous church people and decided on the Bosworth book.

Mark 9:23, Jesus said to him, if you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.

What happened next was exciting. Everything came alive. We read a chapter, and we discussed it. We did this several nights in a row. It was hard to put it down. We discovered a new meaning to faith when we read that when you pray, see the result and act in faith, trusting in God’s word. We know all that, but we felt that there must be more to it. We were led to do a three-day fast as Thanksgiving for our prayers. We already thanked the Lord for our answers before anything happened.

The first day of the fast we had our private time with the Lord. We read the Bible, listened to a couple CDs on Faith, and read a few more chapters from Bosworth, and discussed them. In the evening, we watched a couple of inspirational movies.

The next day it was as if the veil was lifted. All of a sudden, we could see where our faith was not as good as we thought it was, and that explained a lot. All faith is, is trusting the word of God for results. The difference was we became much more aware of the blocks to answers. You must keep your eyes focused on the result, 100% of the time, and totally ignore the slightest attempt by satan to sabotage your prayer.

You have heard all this before, so have we. Sit down and really think about an unanswered prayer. Analyze it and you will undoubtedly find a couple of reasons you never even thought of including the fact that you may have gotten an answer that was better than the one you were expecting. When you pray, trust God completely, see the result, put your mind in park and shut off the engine. We realize this may be ho hum to most people, but we mention it anyway in the hopes that our experience in this little episode helps someone. The book is Christ the Healer by F F Bosworth. God Bless you and your family. Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus loves you.

Prayer of Salvation.

My Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you and Praise you for what you did on the cross for me. By your stripes I was healed and your blood washed away my sins. Your death and Resurrection made my salvation possible. I confess my sins, and I ask you to come into my heart as my personal savior. Amen! 

Praise The Lord!

God's Promises Sunday

Up Close And Personal

Proverbs 3: 5-6, trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

Many Christians, especially new Christians, are surprised and baffled when they encounter a hardship in their journey to Heaven.

You do not feel the joy of Salvation in your spirit. Our Heavenly Father seems distant from us. We have little or no confidence in our prayers. Does this sound like you? It used to sound like me, but it does not have to be that way.

The following example will help you as it helped me. Be completely honest with yourself, because our Lord is probably trying to get your attention. Besides He already knows the truth, you can’t fool Him.

Find a quiet part of your house where you can be up close and personal with our Heavenly Father. Sincerely thank and Praise him for all of the blessings and miracles in your life. Name some you remember.

Matthew 6: 7-13, and when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. Where they think they will be heard for their many words. Therefore, do not be like them. Your Father in Heaven knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in Heaven Hallowed be your name Your Kingdom Come. Your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, Amen.

This is part of what our Lord and savior taught at The Sermon on the Mount. Take the time to meditate on each phrase. Don’t let a day go by without saying this prayer from your heart.

There are no shortcuts in your trip to heaven. The directions are in the word of God, the Bible. How can any of us love and serve someone we do not know? The old “it’s too hard to understand” is no excuse. The New Living Translation, or as it is known NLT is written in plain English so it is easy to understand.

We must also look at how we spend our time. Do we have three or more hours for our favorite pastime, but we are too busy for 15-30 minutes with our God?

If you don’t really know him, how can you ask for His help? One more important point. When you pray, believe He will do it, and get out of His way. If you have time for Him, He has time for you. God bless you and your family. Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus loves you.

Prayer of Salvation.

My Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you and Praise you for what you did on the cross for me. By your stripes I was healed and your blood washed away my sins. Your death and resurrection made my salvation possible. I confess my sins, and I ask you to come into my heart as my personal savior. 

Amen!

Praise The Lord!