Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 84

 

Repeat after Jesus

“Our Father who art in Heaven.”

 

Give us this day our daily bread, forgive us and deliver us from evil for you are our King, Priest, and Prophet. Provide, purify, and protect us.

 

Provide for the sake of your own name, for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever, amen.

 

We believe this prayer without exception. We repeat after Jesus in the hope that we might love you like your Son Jesus with all our hearts, with all our souls, with all our strength, and with all our minds.

 

We believe in loving our neighbors as ourselves in the strength of your daily feeding. This is without remembering their sins against us and us living a life free from evil by your own protection so the glory may be yours and yours alone.

 

We believe from you alone comes the provision for our daily sustenance, sustenance for our bodies, provision from the dust of the ground. A little wheat gives flour and flour becomes small bread for the flesh which is also dust.

 

In the same way you provide the bread of heaven, our Lord Jesus himself who was born in Bethlehem (House of bread), to sustain us spiritually. It is by your power, for we are spiritual beings through the breath you blew in our nostrils.

 

Keep us dead to self but alive in Jesus so we can say with a clear conscience, “I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, the hope of glory.”

 

“Unto Him who is able to keep us from falling and to present us before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—to the only God our Savior, be glory, majesty, power and authority through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore. Amen.” 

 

This is the teaching elder on duty in matters of Prayer.

Gerry Gutierrez.