Good morning, Family:

This morning is day four of our seven day journey into the Lord’s Prayer. We will take our time to break down all seven sentences of the New King James Version of Matthew 6:9-13.

Today, we focus on verse 11, “¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread.” 

In this verse of The Lord’s Prayer, Jesus is speaking and teaching about God in the character of a Provider, where we get Jehovah Jireh (The Lord Our Provider).

On the deeper level, Jesus understands that God, the Father, will provide us with more than just “bread.” God is the provider and supplier of everything that we need. So,  not only will God provide our daily bread, but He will also provide our daily peace, daily joy, daily healing, daily hope and so much more.

Jesus is just telling us not to worry about tomorrow or yesterday, but instead to be present TODAY.  God, The All Sufficient One, has everything handled. All we have to do is show up at The Table. 

Matthew 6:9-13

New King James Version (NKJV)

⁹ In this manner, therefore, pray:

Good morning, Loved Ones:

This morning is day three of our seven day journey into the Lord’s Prayer. We will take our time to break down all seven sentences of the New King James Version of Matthew 6:9-13.

Today, we focus on the second sentence of verse 10, “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.“

In this verse of the prayer, Jesus is speaking on how we should be in agreement and perfect alignment with the will of God. As Christians, we come to know and understand that God’s thoughts are higher and deeper than our thoughts and his ways are higher than our ways. In knowing that, it is our job to adjust ourselves with the sound and vibration of heaven so that we may know what God’s perfect will is, both for our lives individually and also corporately as the body of Christ.

Growing up, on Saturday mornings, I would hear music coming from our garage. My father would be playing music on this really old radio German Radio SABA Freudenstadt. The radio was a special one because it was able to tune into different frequencies from all over the world. Whenever the sound got fuzzy, due to interference, the tuning knob would have to be adjusted so that the sound would be clear. So it is with us tuning into the voice of God and the sound of heaven. 

We are asking God for His will to be done on the earth and in our lives, as it has been spoken and decreed in heaven. We are asking God for the ears to hear. Holy Spirit, speak to our heart so that we may hear the sound of heaven and the will of God. 

Pray for God’s perfect will to be done in your life. We must know and understand that however God asks us to “shift” that it is necessary. We may not understand, but it is not our job to understand. It is our job to obey. Amen?

Matthew 6:9-13

New King James Version (NKJV)

⁹ In this manner, therefore, pray:

Good morning, Beautiful Ones:

This morning begins day two of our seven day journey into the Lord’s Prayer. We will take our time to break down all seven sentences of the New King James Version of Matthew 6:9-13.

Today, we focus on the first sentence of verse 10, “Your kingdom come.”

In this verse of the prayer, Jesus is speaking of God’s Kingdom that must be made manifest on earth. Here is what Jesus said about God’s Kingdom:

Luke 17:20-21

New King James Version (NKJV)

The Coming of the Kingdom

²⁰ Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; ²¹ nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’  For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”

We are the dwelling place for the Kingdom of God. We are God’s Holy Ambassadors. So when Jesus prays, “Your Kingdom come,” I truly believe the prayer is for the heart and mind of man to experience a personal as well as corporate transformation into nature and character of God. The Kingdom of God is already in you. Ask God to open the eyes of your heart so that you may truly see who He Is. 

Matthew 6:9-13

New King James Version (NKJV)

⁹ In this manner, therefore, pray:

Good morning, Family:

This morning begins a seven day journey into the Lord’s Prayer. We will take our time to break down all seven sentences of the New King James Version of Matthew 6:9-13.

Today, we begin with verse 9, “Our Father, in heaven, hallowed be Your name.“ In this verse of the prayer, Jesus is giving us the template of how we should approach God. Before we ask anything of or from God, we must give Him the glory that is due His name. The name of God is holy and reverent. God’s name is sacred and Jesus reminds us to never forget what matters the most. God’s name encompasses so much. There are so many names that God goes by, solely based on His charter. So remember, as you begin to pray the Lord’s prayer, take your time and genuinely address God’s Holy name. 

Matthew 6:9-13

New King James Version (NKJV)

⁹ In this manner, therefore, pray:

Proverbs 6:16-19

New International Version (NIV)

Happy Friday

Psalm 139:1-16 

The Message (MSG)

A David Psalm

139 ^1-6 God, investigate my life;
    get all the facts firsthand.
I’m an open book to you;
    even from a distance, you know what I’m thinking.
You know when I leave and when I get back;
    I’m never out of your sight.
You know everything I’m going to say
    before I start the first sentence.
I look behind me and you’re there,
    then up ahead and you’re there, too—
    your reassuring presence, coming and going.
This is too much, too wonderful—
    I can’t take it all in!

^7-12 Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit?
    to be out of your sight?
If I climb to the sky, you’re there!
    If I go underground, you’re there!
If I flew on morning’s wings
    to the far western horizon,
You’d find me in a minute—
    you’re already there waiting!
Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark!
    At night I’m immersed in the light!”
It’s a fact: darkness isn’t dark to you;
    night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you.

Ephesians 3:14-21 

Living Bible (TLB)

^14-15 When I think of the wisdom and scope of his plan, I fall down on my knees and pray to the Father of all the great family of God—some of them already in heaven and some down here on earth— ¹⁶ that out of his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you the mighty inner strengthening of his Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; ^18-19 and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high his love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God himself.

²⁰ Now glory be to God, who by his mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of—infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes. ²¹ May he be given glory forever and ever through endless ages because of his master plan of salvation for the Church through Jesus Christ. 

Glory to God in the Highest!!!!

I love you with an amazing and everlasting love.

A Servant of Christ,

Rev. Marcia Davis

Psalm 42

English Standard Version (ESV)

Book Two

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.

42 As a deer pants for flowing streams,
    so pants my soul for you, O God.
² My soul thirsts for God,
    for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
³ My tears have been my food
    day and night,
while they say to me all the day long,
    “Where is your God?”
⁴ These things I remember,
    as I pour out my soul:
how I would go with the throng
    and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
    a multitude keeping festival.

⁵ Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
    my salvation ⁶ and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;
    therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
    from Mount Mizar.
⁷ Deep calls to deep
    at the roar of your waterfalls;
all your breakers and your waves
    have gone over me.
⁸ By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
    and at night his song is with me,
    a prayer to the God of my life.
⁹ I say to God, my rock:
    “Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?”
¹⁰ As with a deadly wound in my bones,
    my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me all the day long,
    “Where is your God?”

What happens when God gives us a promise, but it doesn’t happened on our time table and we take over what God began? Well the result is that what we try to create is in direct opposition to God’s promise, timing and peace. 

Our disobedience gives birth to something that is a constant reminder that we didn’t wait. Then, amazingly, we have nerve to get angry and upset with others and even God, when our plan backfires. 

Wait on God. If not, what will result will bring turmoil, unrest and war. A constant reminder that we didn’t wait on God. 

Genesis 16 

The Message (MSG)

16 ^1-2 Sarai, Abram’s wife, hadn’t yet produced a child.

She had an Egyptian maid named Hagar. Sarai said to Abram, “God has not seen fit to let me have a child. Sleep with my maid. Maybe I can get a family from her.” Abram agreed to do what Sarai said.

^3-4 So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took her Egyptian maid Hagar and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife. Abram had been living ten years in Canaan when this took place. He slept with Hagar and she got pregnant. When Hagar learned she was pregnant, she looked down on her mistress.

⁵ Sarai told Abram, “It’s all your fault that I’m suffering this abuse. I put my maid in bed with you and the minute she knows she’s pregnant, she treats me like I’m nothing. MayGod decide which of us is right.”

⁶ “You decide,” said Abram. “Your maid is your business.”

Sarai was abusive to Hagar and Hagar ran away.

^7-8 An angel of God found her beside a spring in the desert; it was the spring on the road to Shur. He said, “Hagar, maid of Sarai, what are you doing here?”

She said, “I’m running away from Sarai my mistress.”

^9-12 The angel of God said, “Go back to your mistress. Put up with her abuse.” He continued, “I’m going to give you a big family, children past counting.

From this pregnancy, you’ll get a son: Name him Ishmael;
    for God heard you, God answered you.
He’ll be a bucking bronco of a man,
    a real fighter, fighting and being fought,
Always stirring up trouble,
    always at odds with his family.”

¹³ She answered God by name, praying to the God who spoke to her, “You’re the God who sees me!

“Yes! He saw me; and then I saw him!”

¹⁴ That’s how that desert spring got named “God-Alive-Sees-Me Spring.” That spring is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

^15-16 Hagar gave Abram a son. Abram named him Ishmael. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave him his son, Ishmael.

I love you with an amazing and everlasting love. 

Rev. Marcia Davis ~ Servant

Psalm 51:1-17

The Message (MSG)

A David Psalm, After He Was Confronted by Nathan About the Affair with Bathsheba