When you finish your prayer times, rest back and consider the certainty behind it all because God is All Mighty! The Kingdom is his. His is the ultimate power and glory. Then, really meaning it, think or say a good hearty, “Amen!”
We pray that God will not let evil overcome us, that evil will not take us captive, but that we will be delivered from its deception. We pray that the Creator will restrain every effort of evil against us.
We should pray similarly to this, “Lord, though you may test me, do not let me fall into the grip of temptation so that I sin. If I fall, forgive me by your grace, and deliver me from doing it again.”
We call upon God in Christ to wash away our sins and to keep our hearts pure in their renewed estate. We beg for the innocence Christ provided by grace alone. We confess that we have no other claim to innocence, but that he paid our debt. We ask for help in forgiving those who are debtors to us.
In all things, we need to show our trust and gratitude to the Lord for our daily bread. Our duty is to work to the best of our ability, to pray for God’s blessing upon our labors, and to manage responsibly all our Lord gives us so that it maximizes the Glory of Jesus Christ and advances his Kingdom.
We pray, “Thy kingdom come.” Our desire is that Satan’s kingdom may be destroyed; and that the kingdom of grace may be advanced, ourselves and others brought into it, and kept in it; and that the kingdom of glory may be hastened.
When you hallow something, you mark it out as special in a good and honorable way. When we pray we should ask that God’s name be hallowed, both in our own lives and in all of creation. We should come solemnly to this absolutely glorious God, the one who made all things, sustains all things, and who redeemed the lost in gracious love.
When we pray to “our Father in heaven” we focus on his majesty and glory. These high thoughts should drive us to constant and confident prayer, the pouring out of our hearts to our Heavenly Father.
Prayer is that means given to us from our loving and sovereign God by which we grow in grace, and participate in the daily unfolding of Divine providence, and in the work of redemptive grace.
Taking part in the Lord’s Supper is a high privilege given by God to his children. By it God blesses them, and by it they declare how our Creator redeemed his people out of the fallen human race.
