5. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven: Let’s try and define God’s will. First of all it is God’s will that all mankind become born again and adopted into the family. It is then that we live a life of walking in obedience to Mathew 6: 33 which states “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all the things that you need will be added to you.” If we are going to do God’s will, we must come to a full understanding of this verse, God has his kingdom and the devil has his kingdom and both of these worlds have consequences that we will reap if we are ignorant of how these kingdoms work. A kingdom is the foundation of where the ruler rules and we have many foundations laid and ruled by different rulers. Humanity with out God who is the King of the universe is a slave to creating a kingdom atmosphere unto them selves and is manipulated by Satan. It’s like living with Alice in wonderland and making up some mirage beliefs that has no eternal consequences in God’s kingdom. God’s will for His children who are only those who are born again people is for them to operate under His divine protection with no other doctrines or additional beliefs contrary to His leading.

The denomination atmosphere has totally separated God family into factions and have become mediators between God and mankind and has replaced the presence of God through the Holy Ghost. We must really understand that only Jesus Christ saves and anybody preaching that gospel and people accepting that fact will become born again if they do it by faith. God is to get the glory and you don’t have to be in a church pew to get saved. As I said earlier I got saved in my auto mobile. I am not against assembling for Christian fellowship. I look for every opportunity to come into agreement whether it is with one person or many. However, it must be in Christ’s name that we meet and not in denominational teachings which is becoming more prevalent today then ever and we wonder why the body of Christ has with drawn from their authority to minister the Lord Jesus Christ every where they go; for this is God’s perfect will for his people. I personally don’t mind debating with people with every opportunity God gives me and looking forward to share a word of wisdom to people who are opposing themselves. This includes in church or any of my travels daily where ever I go meaning the store, doctors office, family or friend’s homes or where ever. Scripture tells us that we are all to do the work of an Evangelist. A true born again believer who says they love God lives with a God consciencness 24/7. Some times in talking to people they give me the impression that they have God in their pocket and pull Him out and use Him as a hole card to impress people. It is absolutely amazing to run into born again believers who attend church regularly and don’t know who they are in Christ.

I recently was visiting with my aunt and her family and had a two hour conversation with a cousin I had not seen for eight years. He and his wife had five beautiful children who were very well behaved and are wonderful people. As I said earlier our whole family was Catholics at one time and the majority of us are now born again believers. My Cousin still attends the Catholic Church and teaches Catholicism at the church to new converts. In our conversation he stated “are you trying to get me to leave the Catholic Church.”

I was taken back by that statement because I was trying to give him a gift of my relationship with the Lord all these years and he spent two hours trying to convert me to Catholicism. I am convinced that the devil has put a mind set on people that they have to have a leader or denomination to belong to because they think that this is God’s will for their lives. He stated that it was the Catholic Church which sanctioned the bible and proclaimed it to be the word of God. I told him that was great and agreed with him. However, they started out believing the true word and have now added so many of their own doctrines that it can no longer be recognized as the true word. This is something we all have to guard against because the flesh distorts the truth and gets lazy in its pursuit in hungering after God’s Righteous Spirit.

It grieves me to tears sometimes when I see this spirit of control robbing God’s children of the freedom of choices because of their judgmental set of rules and regulation mentality in their thinking and not being able to make free will choices to love God or not to love God. Most people in one way or another tell me that they have the Lord however; I don’t believe the Lord has them. So what is God’s perfect will? Scripture tells us as we have fellowship with the Lord and with one another, this will make us whole. However, we must be gathering in Christ’s name and not leaning towards our own understanding.

Heaven and earth are two real places. We must know how God’s kingdom operates in heaven if, we are going to be his hand extended to the oppressed people of the world and create a heavenly atmosphere here. We must believe that we can have a vision and plan by God and that this can really happen if we ask and trust Him to show us how his kingdom works.

Jesus is the way the truth and our lives who brings us to God’s throne of grace to eat of all that God has in His store house to meet our every need. Thus we became born again from above, became God’s children and we have the privilege and right to sit at God’s table. However, we must cling too and lean our whole personality on trusting in our Heavenly Father’s provisions by having child like faith in His promises which can only happen if we are having a very real fellowship with the Holy Ghost daily. He is the one that reminds us of our righteous position in God’s sight and gives us the vision of God’s purposes and knowledge of how to navigate in God’s kingdom to meet our daily needs. So we must be persuaded that the first bread we need is Jesus Christ as being the Savior of our lives. He not only saves us from an eternity in hell but gives us the right to be nourished daily by the Holy Ghost where we really receive the abundant life that Jesus promised us.

By our daily fellowship with the Holy Ghost as we allow Him to teach us how God’s kingdom works, our mind begins to be transformed as God gives us a higher and more clear meaning of His way of supply our needs. Unless we allow this transformation to take place in our thinking, our goals and planning of how we are to have our needs met will not be experienced as stated in Proverbs where is says, “The blessing of the Lord is indeed sweet and there is no toiling in it.” In Luke 5:4-11 we have a story where the apostles were out fishing all night and they had caught no fish.  These verses state. “Jesus when He had stooped speaking to the crowd, He said to Simon (Peter), Put out into the deep [water], and lower your nets for a haul. And Simon (Peter) answered, Master, we toiled all night [exhaustingly] and caught nothing [in our nets]. But on the ground of your word, I will lower the nets [again]. And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish; and as their nets were [at the point of] breaking, they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and take hold with them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying; depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord. For he was gripped with bewildering amazement [allied to terror], and all who were with him, at the haul of fish which they had made; and so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon (Peter). And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from now on you will be catching men! And after they had run their boats on shore, they left everything and joined Him as His disciples and sided with His party and accompanied Him.”

Circumcision in the Old Testament was a ritual that is still followed today in the Jewish Religion that marked you as being a follower of God. God honored that back then but now Jesus is our only way to be saved from a eternal torment in hell and us having a abundant life in our kingdom walk with our Heavenly Father today with the privilege of knowing God on a personal basis as being our Father. We do not capture the favor of God by trying to keep his commandments or any laws and regulations.

In John 14:23, Jesus says, “If a person really loves me, he will keep my commandments.” Blind obedience without love will maintain order, but does nothing to enhance a loving relationship. Blind obedience without recognizing its value is destined for failure. Love gives the reason to obey and gives us value and worth. The hungering heart will seek with Passion the kingdom of God. The complacent heart will grow restless in his walk with the Lord.

It is so true as to the many people that have crossed my path these many years that they come from dysfunctional families and the children have had no fatherly example or a totally dysfunctional father that didn’t have a clue as being a role model of safety and security in representing God the Father to His children. I was fortunate that even though my father didn’t get saved till a year before he died I had the security to know that I was safe and secure from the storms of life and was taught how to take care of my self. The older I get the more thankful I am to have been so protect and cared for as I see and hear what sick and gruesome things the devil is doing to destroy the families of today. We must rebuild the families of America if we are going to raise our children to know and depend on continuing in our motto “In God we trust”

When we ask God for our daily bread we are asking for Him to reveal to us and give us a persuaded attitude that it can only be in us trusting in His provision to care for us and for us to not lean to our own reasoning and be fearful and we need to learn how to rest from our laboring. We need to be reminded daily by the Holy Ghost that God really cares for us and He will give us ideas and ways to prosper because it is His great desire to provide for his children not only their physical needs but the vision He is giving us as to our potential of doing the works of Jesus in our arenas of life.

7. Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven (left, remitted, and let go of the debts, and have given up resentment against) our debtors. The Greek word for debts is opelie: meaning, living in bondage of feeling obligated or having an attitude of I ought to do this or that and having a guilty conscience that you are always dealing with in your mind and heart. This debt attitude is a living entity of demonic activity keeping a born again believer as a slave to his or her shame based nature that Jesus died for on the cross. When this spirit controls our thinking in any way, we lose the freedom of choice given to us by God to do His bidding in our lives or to not do it. Scripture tells us that we have the freedom to choose each day who we will serve. God is looking for people who willing want to love on Him for the pure pleasure of the relationship of His company which makes us experience His totally forgiving nature and a living continuation of the spiritual conversion of a personal witness of our salvation experience at the cross.

We know that only Jesus saves. And only born again believers have the true capacity to have their debts forgiven because Jesus was the perfect example of laying down His life and forgiving us when we were still sinners and a slave to our fleshly cravings. Jesus is not only our poster boy picture of the cross as a physical example to show us what forgiveness is but we received all of Jesus characteristics with power to forgive when we became born again. Since God is His Father, God is also our Father and we both have our Father’s characteristics with the power to exercise forgiveness in all situations.

As we grow in our physical bodies over our years of life, we must allow the spirit of forgiveness to grow in our spirit just as the oxygen we breathe keeps us physically alive. We must learn to forgive as Jesus does which in turn keeps us free to allow God to love on us and we can love ourselves. This creates a peaceable spirit with in us that gives the Holy Ghost the atmosphere to keep our heart healthy where the issues of life are formed and our decision making takes place. If we are going to experience kingdom living we must live in God’s Righteous Spirit of forgiveness with peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

True love from God is filtered down to us and then we can give it to others and it has no obligations attached to it in any form. Jesus freely gave up His life at the cross while we were a slave to a weak will that had no power to walk in obedience to God and we were in bondage to our flesh to do the Devils bidding and enjoying our sinful ways for a season.

8. And lead (bring) us not into temptation. When I first really concentrated on this verse I thought who in their right mind would think that God Himself would lead his children into temptation. For someone to believe that, it can only mean that they do not have a clue as to the nature of a loving father. Now Jesus told them to pray like this because He was well aware of the temptations that we would experience in our lives and how the devil makes us think that God is the creator of a tormenting or getting even mentality that causes people to doubt His love for mankind.

For a number of years I sold life and home insurance. On all of the policies they have a clause that says we do not pay claims by disasters that are caused by acts of God. As we stated earlier we all are walking in the shadow of death because the devil is the principle ruler of the heavenlies of this planet because this was where he was cast down when he was thrown out of heaven for his prideful rebellion against God. A born again believer must recognize this principle. Scripture tells us that the devil goes around like a roaring lion seeking those who he may devour. A Christian who is word poor and not disciplined to meditate in the word day and night will have a difficult time distinguishing between acts of God and acts of Satan. Jesus told them to pray in this way because He knew that people would be hard pressed to discipline themselves to read and study the word and they would think that He was the one they thought was inflicting them with difficult situation and blame Him for their dilemmas.

Just yesterday I heard on television a well known Pastor tell his congregation that God inflicts infirmities on His people because this will cause them to seek Him more so they can mature. These types of statements when spoken over God’s kids curses their understanding of the loving Father that is always on our side. In the book of Job we know that the trial they he went through was intense because we know that he lost all of his children and cattle and had sores all over his body.

He lived in mental torment trying to reason why all these things befell him. In Job 29:2 he states his disappointment when he makes the statement. “ Oh that I were as in the months of the past when God was watching over me” Of coarse when his trial ended he was richer in the knowledge of God’s ways because he makes this statement in chapter 42:5-6 “ I have heard you only by the hearing of my ear: but now my ( spiritual ) eyes sees you. Therefore I loathe my words and abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

This dust and ashes statement means that he had been enlightened and now knew how to throw off this mistaken idea of God being the one causing these trials in his life. He could now through his new educated view of God no longer be hindered with ideas that had no value in God’s kingdom that had a dust and ashes substance. It is understandable why so many born again believers are spiritually bankrupt because of their misunderstanding of God’s plans and purposes for their lives. People who live bankrupt I call living in a Job’s syndrome. A syndrome shows signs and symptoms that together are characteristics that are indicative of a specific disease or other disorder. Let’s realize that our physical manifestations in life start in the spiritual world in our thinking between God’s thoughts or our own thoughts. We as God’s children must understand the spiritual world that we were born into the day we made Jesus our savior and we must now make Him our Lord so we can judge rightly.

9. But deliver us from the evil one. We can’t have it two ways here. If we believe God could lead us into temptation in any way how can we ask Him to deliver us from evil. We must be persuaded that God is always on our side and as born again believers we must have a passion hungering and thirsting after our righteous position in Christ with tenacity and equipped with the word of God; so that signs and wonders follow us as scripture tells us they will. We are equipped with all the things necessary to be delivered from the evil one. He is already defeated however, when we are not functioning in our anointed discernment that was given to us at salvation, we live with a stupor over our spiritual mind. This type stupor causes us to live in a rote attitude which results in us not having a quick understanding of the Holy Spirit’s meaning and we never learn what it is to speak a word of wisdom in the season or moment when we need it to fight the devils lies and deceptions.

I have found at times that I had to speak a word of reproof or rebuke to family or people who opposed themselves that was not easy because; it was received with offense and not honored at the time it was given. It is nice to be accepted and respected however when pressure is brought to bear the real truth of what is in a person’s heart comes out and being called on by God to break a spiritual puss bag sore in a person’s inner man is a difficult and emotional battle at all times to deal with. We must know at all costs who we are in Christ and be available to respond to the Holy Ghost in obedience at all times whether it is welcomed by people or not.

God the Father is looking for His children to stand in the gap for mankind and be able to speak a word of prophetic wisdom to those who cross their path and are weary of their everyday struggle to survive the cares of life. We must be able to hold up a Godly standard and this can only take place if we are well versed in God’s word. All born again people are ministers of the gospel and anointed and gifted to do the work of the ministry in their arena of life. It is us having a vision and the knowledge of how to operate in the spiritual world with our anointing that delivers us from evil. The best way to be delivered from evil is by us having a powerful offense. When Jesus was lead into the wilderness by the Holy Ghost, Satan came and tempted Him when He was at His weakest point. As you can see from scripture the only way Jesus was delivered from doing evil was by Him knowing the word of God and speaking it to the devil. This life that we live in is our wilderness walk and the only way the Holy Ghost can lead us is if, the word of God is deep down in our hearts which gives us the potential to reach a sick and dying world.

10. For you are the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.” As you can see it says we must operate in God’s kingdom with His power and have the presence with in us to constantly give Him glory and honor at all times. There must come a conclusion with in us of being totally persuaded that we have once and for all surrendered ourselves by bowing our heart and bending our knee to His divine kingship and know that there is no other god or authority liken unto Him. There must come a amen ( so be it ) with in our being that is heart felt if, we are going to be tenacious in our pursuit to complete God’s course that He set down before us from the foundation of the world.

Jesus tells us in Matthew 11:12 tells us “the kingdom of God suffers violents and the violent take it by force.” We are not talking about the type of violents that Peter the Apostle did at the Garden of Gethsemane when he cut off the centurion’s ear because they came to take Jesus to Pontius Pilot to be crucified. There must come with in the born again believer a continual revelation of the spiritual world so that it becomes more real then the natural world. It’s like walking in the desert and seeing a figure in the distance that looks like a vibrating unclear mirage that becomes clearer as we come closer and this must take place in the spiritual world also as we have fellowship with the Holy Ghost and get comfortable with being a child of God our Father. It is obvious that when you hear let us pray and the people in the gathering pray the Our Father, I doubt if they have the awareness of what they are saying. It has become a rote word with no passion with meaning.