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As of the publication of this Article, we are about mid-way in our Sunday Morning Messages on “The Lord’s Prayer.”  God is doing a special work in my life and, I trust, in yours.  A recent point on the calendar is the first of this year when I began Preaching on Holy Spirit.  The work has been continuing through a book by Jim Cymbala, “Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire” – which ties in with our theme/motto this year, “A Fresh Wind In 2010!” – and the DVD study by him that we are using Sunday evenings.  A booklet by Haddon Robinson on “The Lord’s Prayer” and some older recorded Sermons by Larry Lea on the same theme are also currently being used by God in my life – as well as a 1994 recorded Sermon by Jim Cymbala.  Brother Cymbala is the Pastor of The Brooklyn Tabernacle – a Church that has grown from 20 to 10,000+ in the 35+ years that he has been there. 

God is, indeed, at work in my life!  Praise His Name!  AND – I am sensing He is working in a new way in the Ministry of The Historic First Baptist Church Of Owego.

Here is what I want YOU to do – I shared this at the end of the first Message on Holy Spirit:

1. Pray For Me.
2. Pray For Yourself.
3. Search The Scriptures RE: Everything You Are Hearing And Receiving So You Can See First-Hand That It Is All True And From God.
4. Be In Our Morning Services Every Week!
5. Be Yielded To Holy Spirit.
6. Look For Surprises From God!

And now, I have been adding this at the end of the Messages on “The Lord’s Prayer:”

1. LISTEN!  I want you to Pray this Prayer every day – starting today if you haven’t previously started.  Pray It slow – real slow – and see what happens.  Millions say It every Sunday, but very few ever really Pray It.  Join the few.  Learn to Pray this Prayer.  Learn to Pray as Jesus taught us to.  AND – watch what happens.

I see “The Lord’s Prayer” as a series of declarations about God: “Our Father” à God Is Our Creator; “Which art in Heaven” àGod Is On His Throne & Is All-Knowing; “Hallowed be Thy Name” à God Is Holy; “Thy Kingdom come” à God Is The One And Only True Potentate; “Thy Will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven” à God Is Sovereign, God Is The Absolute Ruler With Absolute Authority; “Give us this day our daily bread” à God Is Our Provider; “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” à God Is Our Sanctification, Our Righteous-ness, Our Justifier, Our Justification; “And lead us not into temptation” à God Is Our Shepherd; “but deliver us from evil” à God Is Our Deliverer; “For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever” à God Is King, God Is Almighty, God Is Glorious, God Is Eternal! Amen!

Truly Pray and make these Declarations and then – LISTEN! – watch what happens!  I double-dog dare ya’ to do this!  “When the Son of Man comes, shall He find [this kind of] Faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8)  This kind of Faith – this kind of Praying – just won’t quit – it won’t cry “uncle!”  Come on Church, let’s do it!

God Bless!  -

Pastor Terry