The Lord's Prayer Part 8

"For Yours is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, forever. Amen."
                                                                                                                    Matthew 6:13.  NKJV

This is the final major topic in our prayer outline:

DIVINE PARTNERSHIP - Praise God for sharing His Kingdom, Power and Glory with you.

God is willing to give His children the best and wants us to share our lives with Him. In John 14 we read:

'Let not you heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you. I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also'.  John 14:1-3

Jesus is actually preparing a place for us to live in Heaven. It must be a magnificent place because He has been preparing this for over 2000 years. Note the word, 'Mansions'. Have you ever thought that you would live in one of these? Well you will! When He has finished the preparations, He will return to us and take us there. This will be in the End Times - the end of the age. People have been talking about this for many years but it is getting close. One only has to look at the state of the world right now - terrorism, wars, abuse, floods, earthquakes, people stabbing people and beheading them. Total evil, bloodshed and hurt. There will have to be the rise of the anti-christ firstly, but with all of this chaos and pain, even that may be just around the corner. Kenneth Copeland said very recently that, 'We are in the end of the end times,' and I believe it.

But, Jesus will take care of all bible-believing, born again, Spirit-Filled Christians wherever they are. He is sharing His Kingdom with us. He has also shared with us His Power - 'But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you’. Acts 1:8, then, ‘Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you.'  Luke 10:19. He is also sharing with us, His Glory: 'So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord - who is the Spirit - makes us more and more like Him as we are changed into His glorious image.'  2 Corinthians 3:18 NLT. Wow, look in the mirror and you'll be looking at Jesus. You are a mirror-image.

There is some question as to whether this doxology is in the original manuscript. Some theologians believe Matthew wrote it; others believe that it was added by a scribe at a later date.  There will always be debates about whether this is right or the other. The way forward, I believe, is that it should be accepted that it was in the original text and believed to be what Matthew meant to say. Until God says different, that is what I believe is the right route to take here. Don't forget that there is a thief about (John 10:10). He will rob us of every gem that God gives us if we allow him to. Don't let him. Stand on the Word of God.

We have now come to the end of our study of the Lord's Prayer. There is so much more to reap from this text and I encourage you to meditate on it and expound the scripture until you feel that you have squeezed the life out of it. When you feel this, you'll be wrong, because it is a Living Word and there is no end to it.

Be very Blessed

Copyright 2019 Grahame Howard

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