by rogerjsimpson | May 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Lord, I believe…..help thou my unbelief.” So pleaded the father of the seizure-ridden child to the Lord Jesus Christ. We all find ourselves in need of miracles, trusting in the Lord, yet with doubts creeping in like this poor father. Sometimes in the face of...
by rogerjsimpson | Apr 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Glory: The Lord’s Prayer The sacred word “GLORY” echoes down through time in many songs, hymns and chants, most famously sung in Handel’s “The Messiah”: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath...
by rogerjsimpson | Apr 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Power For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory Jesus Christ received all his power from Heavenly Father: the power to create, the power to do many mighty miracles, the power of speech beyond human ability to persuade to do good, the godly power to suffer...
by rogerjsimpson | Apr 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
For thine is the kingdom The Lord’s Prayer Kingdom here for the second time in this prayer, making it the beginning and the end of the prayer. This harks back to the dawn of creation, when Lucifer, the son of the morning, tried to usurp God the Father’s kingdom from...
by rogerjsimpson | Apr 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Deliver us from Evil” The Lord’s Prayer One of the Names of Jesus Christ is “The Deliverer”[i] In Romans Paul quotes Isaiah: “And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from...