Loving God of all people, today shine brightly the light of your love on the needs of this dear reader; in Christ Jesus I pray, amen.
Our text for today comes from Matthew 6: 9 "Pray then in this way: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one.
Learning to pray is a great gift that we received from someone who cared enough to teach us. Who have you taught to pray? Jesus cared enough for His disciples that He shared the pattern for prayer as found in what we now call The Lord's Prayer. It's a simply yet powerful prayer of faith. It has all the key ingredients of faith and life. In God we have a special relationship. We know God to be holy and we treat God in that way. We know God to be truly the ruler of all things and we should live as king's kids. We know that God's will is the best for all who would look upon Him and we truly pray for the day that we might be subject to God's leading so that indeed God's will would be done here on the earth as we know it is in Heaven. In God we have one in whom we can depend for all things, especially the basic ones of life. And we also have in God the only One who can forgive us our sins. Jesus takes it farther and says we should also forgive the sins of those who have sinned against us. And if we take God by the hand, God will not lead us down a path of destruction; God's path is a path of life.
PRAYER: Lord, let me truly pray that which we studied today: 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 also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one. For Thine is the kingdom, and the glory and the power forever! Amen!
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
Eradio Valverde
