And forgive us our sins. From April 26, 2012

First of all I want to thank all of you for your prayers on the operation that I had Tuesday and because of your prayers I am home and healing, all the glory and honor goes to our Lord and Savior. I will keep this short for it would take for time and space to put it all on FB. I am going to talk about part of the Lord’s Prayer in Luke 11verse4 “And forgive us our sins, For we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation. But deliver us from the evil one.” I will attempt to explain what is meant by those verses. That sins are debts which we are daily contracting, and which therefore we should everyday pray for the forgiveness of. Every day adds to the score of our guilt, and it is a miracle of mercy that we have so much encouragement given us to come every day to the throne of grace, to pray for the pardon of our sins of daily infirmity, God multiplies to pardon beyond seventy times seven.

That we have no reason to expect God would forgive our sins against Him, if we do not sincerely forgive those that have at any time affronted us or been injurious to us. That temptations to sin should be as much dread and deprecated by us as ruin by sin. We must be as earnest with God that we may not be led into it as that we may not be led by that to sin, and by sin to ruin.

That God is to be depended upon for our deliverance from all evil; and we should pray, not only that we may not be left to ourselves to run into evil, but that we may not be left to Satan to bring evil upon us. I use Matthew Henry’s Commentary to help in this. Beloved may you all be blessed many times over by our Lord and Savior, may you be healed, may you be prosperous, and may you all have the Lords peace, joy and rest.