🙇‍♀️Deliver Us 🚸

 All death can do to the believer is deliver him to Jesus. 

Charlie Kirk

“but deliver us from evil ”

Never forget what’s being taught. It’s the Father speaking to His children.  One of the first things my Dad taught me was how to cross the street. It was Sunday morning and my Dad and I were going to Sunday School. Our Church was on a busy street in the City limits of Atlanta.  We had parked across the street from the Church. As I got out of the car and began to walk toward my dad, he grabbed hold of my left hand. As we walked toward the street we stopped and my dad said Wayne you have to look both ways before crossing the street. Then he said look both ways and tell me what you see? That Sunday morning the traffic was light as we walked across the street. That was my first teaching of crossing a busy street but that wasn’t the end of my learning for the traffic isn’t always light.  

Neither is the traffic in our lives always light. We have all seen on a TV program or movie a man running from the police. As he runs down the sidewalks and alleys he finally darts out into the busy street of the city only to be hit by an oncoming car, truck or bus. 

The order is Stop Look before you Cross. On the other side is where you are wanting to go but if you fail to Stop, Look and Listen your chance of getting to the other side narrows. 

So here we see our Heavenly  Father teaching his children more. We have already been taught how we are to ask for  

• Our Provisions  “give us this day our daily bread”
• Our Pardon “forgive us”

Now we learn how to ask for 

• Our Protection “deliver us” 

deliver us from what? That is a question that only you can answer. What do you need protection from? 

• Is it anger? 
• Is it over spending? 
• Is it taking things that aren’t yours? 
• Is it drugs? 
• Is it alcohol? 
• Is it sex? 
• Is it greed? 
• Is it over eating? 
• You fill in the blanks.  

Protection is being protected from loss. 

We lived in Oklahoma after I returned home after being in  Alaska for 18 months. They had predicted tornadoes. There was a storm shelter on the property we were renting. We went to check it out and we found we had to do a few things to it just in case we needed it. Sometime during the night I got up, turned on the radio and they said that a tornado was on the ground and it was coming our direction. I quickly got my wife and our young baby and we ran out the door to the storm shelter. In that shelter we were safe away from the danger of the oncoming storm. 

“Deliver us from evil” 

1 John 4:4 (KJV) Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

What seemed so large that night we were in a shelter which protected us from the storm above us. What are we being taught in this verse? “greater is he that is in you” Let the storms brew and winds blow for we are sheltered in the arms of our Heavenly Father.  I couldn’t stop that oncoming storm that night and my temptation may be greater than me but like that night of long ago I have a shelter that I can run to. 

Psalms 61:3 (KJV) For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. Remind Me!

Psalms 61:2 (KJV) From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. Help Me! 

I Can’t stop, you see my whole family is like this. It’s in our blood. You just nailed it when you said “it’s in our blood. 

• That’s all you have seen, 
• That’s all you have heard and known
• That’s all you expect. 

Here in this prayer of communication Jesus is saying after this manner pray ye “deliver us from evil” when you say that you are saying I can’t. Evil is greater than me. Evil is all around me. I know you have heard of the frog in the warm water that gradually comes to a boil and kills the frog. On the same scale that has happened. Over time our morals have become less and less. There’s not a day that goes by that you don't hear words that should never have been said. These words are used as if they were proper speech. It matters not whether  male or female they blend them into their sentences as if they were a wordsmith. No matter where you go, evil is present. We let evil into our mind and we will have thoughts we never thought we could think. I was called for jury duty and was chosen for the grand jury that’s one day a month for 6 months. I couldn't believe all I heard of the evil that went on in the county I lived in. Oh my 😱you name it and it was happening right here where I lived; evil!

2 Timothy 3:13 (KJV) But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.