We continue with #7 in Our Lord’s Prayer series, Matthew 6:13, with the message title being Temptation & Deliverance.
Jesus is teaching us to ask our Heavenly Father for protection against the schemes of the evil one.
Temptations and testings will come our way. God tests us for good purposes. He wants to make our faith and reliance on Him stronger, giving us a resilient faith to help us step up in following Jesus and making God’s Kingdom come.
Satan wants to tempt us for his evil purposes. He wants to make us stumble and fall into sin, undermine our faith in Christ, disable us in making God’s Kingdom come.
In short, this petition of Our Lord’s Prayer reminds us that as Christians, Christ followers, we are engaged in physical and spiritual battles with the evil one. We are in a WAR ZONE!
EVEN WHEN God tests our faith (for good) and Satan wants to snatch that opportunity to trip us up and lead us into sin, GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL! That’s WHY Jesus teaches us to pray this prayer.
