May 2022 | It Is Finished
BRINGING GOD'S KINGDOM The Lord's Prayer, part 1
“Prayer does not fit us for the greater work,” Oswald Chambers tells us, “prayer is the greater work.”Another man of God, H. MacGregor, has told us, “I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach. A minister's highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray....Read More
An important lesson that the Lord’s prayer teaches us is the complete submission of the one who prays. William Barclay puts it this way, “Prayer must never be an attempt to bend the will of God to our desires, prayer always ought to be an attempt to submit our wills to the Will of God”.The sec...Read More
The English word ‘hallowed’ means ‘to sanctify’ or ‘to make holy’. Does the name of the Lord lack any jot in holiness that we may pray for His great name to be further sanctified? This sounds a litle paradoxical, doesn’t it? Albeit, as Jesus has taught His disciples to pray for t...Read More
Thy Kingdom Come An Evangelical Eschatological Prayer of Sanctity
The term ‘Kingdom of God’, is an expression misunderstood by many. The fanatics in India protest the Christians’proclamation of the ‘Kingdom of God’ accusing them of being for political gains. Christians have a ‘hidden agenda’, they argue, to turn India into a Christian nation. Is ther...Read More
Thy Will be Done: “...Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matt. 6:10)
This, probably, is the most profound statement in the Lord’s prayer. In this short sentence is captured the supreme, overriding, purpose of Christ and the eternal, overarching, purpose of God. Elsewhere in the scripture we read that “the mystery of His will” “which he purposed in Christ...Read More
Give Us this Day Our Daily Bread, Matthew 6:11
Approaching a personal God as a loving Father is evident in the prayer that the Lord taught His disciples. This prayer can be a pattern for our prayers as well. While making our supplications it is important to make sure that we should not ask anything that would tarnish His name. We commit to...Read More
Most people see prayer as a tool used by a drowning person attempting to save himself by holding on to a piece of string! Since some people have received help or escaped during such attempts, others are fooled and continue likewise believing they too can ‘get away’ with that kind of prayer. What...Read More
Lace up the tennis shoes; we are going for a jog. No stopwatch is needed for the issue is continuity, not speed. The track is the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13). The runner is you, “And you when you pray…” (vs 6) Not “if” you pray but “when” you pray. To stay spiritually fit one must...Read More
The Importunate Widow (Re-printed from earlier issue of Revive)
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.(Luke 18: 1)The parables of Jesus were often meant to illustrate specific doctrines or duties. The parable of the prodigal son reveals the readiness of God to save sinners. In the parable of the widow w...Read More