Sunday Devotional: Matthew 6:13
And do not lead us into temptation, but rescue us from the Evil One. I have decided to look at these final two petitions together since they are connected. Both have points of interest...
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Sunday Devotional: Matthew 6:12
And forgive us our debts, as also we ourselves have forgiven those who owe us. The Greek of this petition uses the words opheilêma and opheiletês in reference to “debts” and “debtors.” The similarity...
Sunday Devotional: Matthew 6:11
Give to us today the food we need. The petitions switch now to the first person plural: “us,” “we.” Jesus is shifting focus from the global to the personal. From things we want the...
Sunday Devotional: Matthew 6:10b
Let your will come to pass, as in heaven [so] also on earth; The next petition of the Lord’s Prayer is for God’s will to be accomplished (the Greek verb I have translated “come...
Sunday Devotional: Matthew 6:10a
Let your kingdom come; This simple petition carries a lot of meaning. We have already seen in our meditations on the Beatitudes that Jesus often spoke of “the kingdom of heaven,” or “the kingdom...
Sunday Devotional: Matthew 6:9
You, therefore, pray in this way: Our Father who is in heaven, may Your name be held sacred. Since today is Father’s Day, I thought it appropriate to begin a series of devotions on...
Sunday Devotional: Matthew 5:11-12
11 Blessed are you when they revile you and persecute you and say every evil against you falsely on account of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward [is] great in heaven;...
Sunday Devotional: Matthew 5:10
Blessed are those who have been persecuted on account of righteousness, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs. In verse 6, Jesus said that those who hunger and thirst righteousness will be satisfied. While...
Sunday Devotional: Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers, for these will be called sons of God. The Greek word translated “peacemaker” in this Beatitude, eirênopoios, means quite literally, “one who makes [poieô] peace [eirênê].” It seems fairly obvious...
Sunday Devotional: Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for these shall see God. At first, this Beatitude appears to be referring to those who are morally clean: those who don’t defile themselves with impure thoughts, or...
