End With Praise!
"For Yours is the kingdom and the
power and the glory forever. Amen."
Matthew 6: 13
Reba McEntire says singing the Lord’s Prayer
is spirituality at its most profound. “It’s all God,”
she said. “He’s the reason for
everything.” The
climactic moment in the Lord’s Prayer is when it
circles back to God: “For Yours is the kingdom
and the power and the
glory forever. Amen.”
Notice the word “for,” which links all our requests with
God’s glory. Why do we ask for God’s will to be done
on earth? Why do we request our daily bread? Why do
we pray, “Deliver us
from evil?” It’s all for God’s glory.
We end the Lord’s Prayer by praising the great attributes
of God. It would be very difficult for us to bring Him all of
our needs if we end our prayer with a sense of our need
rather than a sense of the One who has promised to
meet our need.
As you pray, remember God’s sovereignty, His power,
His
majesty, and His eternity. In prayer and in all of life,
let’s end with praise!
We are often preoccupied with our petitions to
our Father that
we completely forget to praise
Him for who He is and what He has done.
"He who avoids the temptation
avoids the
sin."
Unknown
