And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors (Matthew 6:12). Here, Jesus teaches us to pray to God for forgiveness and adds an important lesson: we are forgiven by God when we forgive others. Jesus stressed all this important lesson when He said “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, […]
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In this manner, therefore, pray: …Give us this day our daily bread (Matthew 6:9-11) Here in the Lord’s prayer, Jesus taught us to ask God for our daily bread (Matthew 6:11). Jesus again emphasized this truth when He said “Ask, and it shall be given you” (Matthew 7:7). Later on, James in His epistle noted that the
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In this manner, therefore, pray: …Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:9-10) In 1 Timothy 2:4, we learn that it is God’s will that everyone be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. However, we read from the Scriptures that there will be those who will refuse
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In this manner, therefore, pray: …Thy Kingdom Come…(Matthew 6:9-10) Jesus didn’t die on the cross so that we will only be spiritually translated into His kingdom (Colossians 1:13) while we continue to live on this earth with satan being the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4) and the prince of the power of the air
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In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name… (Matthew 6:9-10) Jesus taught us to call God our Heavenly Father and hallow His name when we pray. Calling God Father is is not an exclusive Old Testament privilege. On the contrary, it is foundational in Christianity. We read in John 1:12 concerning believers
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Early on in Jesus’ Ministry, at the time He gave the sermon on the mount, He took the initiative and taught His disciples how to pray (Matthew 6:9-13). This prayer has popularly been called the Lord’s prayer. Later on in His ministry, when one of His disciples asked Him to teach them how to pray, He
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Hebrews 12: 2 says “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God”. In this verse we are shown how Jesus was able to endure the
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In Philippians 3:18-19, the Bible says, “For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction…who set their minds on earthly things”. God is love, and the cross of Christ is the ultimate expression of God’s love
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It is without a doubt that music is valuable in worship. However, the presence or absence of music does not define worship. Neither is the tempo of music the determinant of worship. In Romans 12:1, the Bible defines what worship is supposed to entail: “Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to
In Romans 11:22 we are told to “Behold then the kindness and severity of God”. We are ultimately deceived when we only know the kindness of God, and so are we equally deceived when we only know the severity of God. God is perfect in His nature, and He is both perfectly kind and perfectly
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