Yours Is The Power

YOURS IS THE POWER. Matthew 6.13.

Everyone likes praise. Our God delights in our praises, the Bible says. It is not that He needs our praise but He knows that it is good for us to be grateful and express it! It will keep us humble and enable us to acknowledge that we are nothing and we have nothing and all we have is from God, even our very existence. We are still with the closing doxology (praise / worship) in prayer the Lord taught us. “For Yours (God’s) is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen”. Today we will try to understand why the Lord wanted us to pray ‘For, Yours (God’s) is the…power!’

Jesus taught us the things we should ask in prayer to our Father in heaven. Some are temporal but others eternal. Some are mundane (earthly) and others spiritual. Whatever the nature of our requests or however difficult it seems to us, Jesus taught us to trust in God’s power to accomplish them. So, Jesus wanted us to conclude our requests with words that affirm our faith in our Father and in His power to answer us.

A dear friend of mine, a good young Christian, is in severe financial difficulty. He has an incapacitated child too! He has lost jobs; tried businesses without success and now is unable to meet the needs of his family. Friends have tried to help him. His church home fellowship has done their bit and given up. He is still in bad shape. I am doing my best in different ways to solve his problems. But, I don’t have the power to help him out of his situation! But it is nothing impossible with our heavenly Father. For his is the power!

Power belongs to God, the Bible says. The psalmist says, “God has spoken once, twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God” (Psalm 62. 11). King Solomon prayed, “Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all” (1 Chr 29.11,12). In Revelation we read, “I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God” (Rev 19.1).

Dear child of God, He has all the power to answer all my prayers! And that of the whole world which is in need! Do you believe it? Then tell it to God, your Father in heaven. Jesus has encouraged you to believe that God is a far better and much greater Father to you than your earthly father who loves you and wants to do everything possible to help you out of all your troubles but does not have the power to do so! (Mt 7.11).

Pray and practise with me: Dear Lord, for You have the power to answer all my prayers. Lord, I believe, help my unbelief! In Jesus’ Name. Amen.