…..’AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, AND DELIVER US FROM EVIL….AMEN. 

When Jesus was asked how to pray, this is what He said:

“Our Father Who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will, be done, on earth as it is in heaven,give us this day, our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen   ‘For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory,now and forever! Amen!

Really, the Lord did not mince words!  He said what needed to be said, and He said it very succinctly.    The above prayer, known as the ‘LORDS PRAYER” is often said in rote, and with very little reflection on each sentence and the profoundness of its impact!  
For, this all encompassing prayer says it all!   It covers every aspect of living, and how to handle that aspect!   He pretty much tells us how to live,  what is expected, and trust in that prayer!    So it is a favorite of all christian   churchs everywhere!    Most everyone I speak to is familiar with the prayer, sometime called, ‘The Our Father’!

The Our Father is so powerful, that you can feel the very presence of the Holy
Spirit when it is said.    The prayer is really all we need to know to know how to live.   Yet, Jesus went forward and lived out the ‘Ten Commandments’ suffered, and died on a cross, rose  again, and ascended into heaven to judge the living and the dead!   He did not stop at the ‘Our Father’!   He did not presume a little was alot!   He lived life out fully, and knew what was expected of Him!    The LORD, Our truest exmple to living life, left behind many many examples, and ‘quotations’ and even left behind that magnificent CROSS!    Why?   Because He knew people would not remember words, the examples would be  stifled, but the power of ‘the cross’ remains!

No matter what a persons spiritual level of growth; if one professes Christ and knows Christ and loves Christ, then one knows the Cross!    The Cross, His alone , is powerful even to look at!  It is eternal life!   For anyone who understands why the cross stands, also understands the power it exudes!   For He who died on it was a mere man, who was predestined by God, to over come Evil!   A real force in a world our Heavenly Father created!   It is His and His alone!  And He, Our Heavenly Father, deemed it so!  It was His to take back, win back, and maintain, and so He did!    Through His only Son Jesus Christ, salvation came to a broken world!   A world that two thousand and some years later, can still realize its magnificense, if it were to choose to.   For Christ did not die in vain!   If it were so, we would not have the cross today!    Jesus Christ is so powerful, His spirit so real, and His love so profound, that should one choose Christ, one will never be alone!   Jesus is ever present in each of His own!   He calls each by name and knows their where-abouts!  He is the Alpha and Omega!   The beginning and the end, and on His name ever knee will bend, in heaven, on earth, and under the earth!   God did this!    When God is pleased,  no gift,  and no sacrifice,is as perfect as the blessing of Almighty God the Father in our lives!   Our Heavenly Father, gave us His Son!  His son, pleased Him so, that He has given Him the keys to the kingdom of heaven!   How would you like that?!   God the all powerful, the all loving and the all encompassing, is all to all and because of all, is!!   We only can dream of Him!  He is, and we are because He is, and deemed it as such!    So, if you, or I get to reighteous in our thinking, it would do us well to remember the Lord gives and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord!

I say this because, a world of normalacy can change in a heart beat!   Please do not forget your life and mine are gifts!  His gift to us, life,eternally with Him in heaven through His Son Jesus Christ who died on the Cross so all may live!

Free Choice is ours alone!  Our Father wants us to want Him!  In wanting Him, we will find Him if we search for Him!   For God turns no one away!    The teachings of Jesus, His Son unfold to a greater understanding of the will and love of God!   ‘Peace is my gift to you’! Jesus says!   And so it is !   Yet, it must be desired!  

 You only get what you want when you strive for it!   For scriputure has it, ‘ anything easily attained is easily lost’!   He said it clearly, time and again.   You will not find the kingdom easily, it is a journey!

When life is lived, it is lived as a journey, even today.   As the ‘three kings’ journeyed to find the Christ Child, so we must journey to find the Christ Child!   I want to make this clear!   Jesus does come when you call upon Him and ask Him into your heart; yet, He must be lived daily, experienced daily, loved daily!  He is a person!  He has feelings!   The relationship is a ‘growing one’!   He is profound!   You can not ‘know’ the depth of magnifesense without spending time with Him! As with anyone, spending time enlightens the mind to the spirit of the person you are keeping company with, so with Jesus!  

 Would you like it if someone professed to know you and they met you but once?   Can you know someone, by meeting them once?  Hardly!  So, to be true to yourself and the Lord, know Him intimatley, spend time with Him intimatley, and feel the growth of the presence of ‘great love’!  Nothing will match it!

Having built a reputation of being a ‘devoted christian’ I have had people call me and ask me different things, and I have always tryed to offor a prayer to the ‘HOLY SPIRIT’ before answering.   WHY?   Because the insight of God is manifested through the Holy Spirit, where Christ resides with the Holy Trinity!  God in three persons,  Father, Son and Holy Ghost!  (though Holy Ghost) was changed to Holy Spirit, they are the same! 

Make no mistake about it! The peace that transcends all understanding resides in the spirit of God the Father, through Jesus Christ His Son, in union with the Holy Spirit!  For the spirit of  God is what gives us life.   The spirit of the Son of God gives eternal Life and the Holy Spirit leads us and enlightens  us within,  creating the ‘Holy Trinity’!   Deep, very Deep, but very real!  

 Prayer is to the Soul, like air is to the body!   You can see neither, but both exist!   Both are real and both are essential!   Without oxygen, the body will die, without prayer, the soul will die!     

The days of a man or womans life are up to God!  We have only so much time to come to and understanding that ‘free will’ is opposing to God!   It is a choice!   Choose God, or choose ‘free will’!   The Fathers Blessings are of such greatness, once could not possiably give way to them.   For they must be experienced!   Some things in this life must be experinced, and can never be explained, so it is… the graces and favors He gives they are insurmountble.   Yours for the taking!   By trusting, loving, and submission! “‘Thy will be done’ on earth as it is in heaven,…”   Jesus said it, and it is so!   AMEN!   GO WITH GOD!!

THE LORD’S PRAYER:  BOOK OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 6: VERSES 9-13