LAST SUNDAY Last Sunday – as for the second Sunday of each month, was special at The Kings Arms. It’s family Sunday. The highlight is the Lord’s Supper together. We dedicated the Christmas boxes which we expect to go to Pacific Island children. Shaun Killerby led the Missions focus on Abel Nzoa and Harvest Partnership. We prayed for Abel’s family and the churches who are being mobilised to New Testament action in the African Great Lakes countries. I had the privilege of sharing before we partook The Supper. The focus was on the three “ours” of the Lord’s [actually The Disciples’} prayer. Our Father: the mighty God ruler of everything and King of the Kingdom of heaven presents Himself as Our Father – the one we can come close to, relax with, be open to and have total confidence in as part of our worship! We are family, because we share our Father, which cancels out self-centredness. This means I can’t come to Him without thinking of you! And as children of our Father – we are a family, with His purposes being our purposes. Then: Give us Our Daily Bread being every need I and my fellow family members have. I, personally, have to trust God for $1000’s each month because of our family of African Missionaries doing God’s work. My brother may need money for a bottle of milk! Another: peace in the home or in the heart! Whatever the need is: we are told to ask for it, in a way of simple faith and rest in His faithfulness. In Africa a lot of public praying is by shouting. We have to share with them that that is no way to speak to any Father and shows lack of respect, relationship and trust! [This was the manner of the Pharisees whom Jesus rebuked in the introduction to the prayer [see Matt 6]] It is amazing that Jesus puts asking for “Our Daily Bread” before we pray about Our Trespasses being forgiven. Such is His love! Debtors in need can come and ask! Forgive us Our Trespasses: because we are in tune with God, doing our Father’s business, living in His presence and living for His purposes and glory we must desire clean hands and hearts! A dirty pipe is a useless pipe! Ask this, He said, on condition that you do not hold anything against anybody else! Wow! You can’t be an agent of the Gospel of grace and forgiveness unless you are giving grace and forgiveness to those who have “crossed over the line” [trespassed] against you! That is humanly impossible: forgiving someone to that extent. But at the cross we know “He did it for me”, and “He did it for us” and we must “pass it on”. “The blood of Jesus Christ, His son, cleanses us from all sin”. We can pray “Forgive us our debt” in confidence, for Jesus paid it all!
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:58:06 +0000
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