2024-08-11 Deliver Us From Evil

Ok, we are continuing our series on / / Prayer & Fasting. And today we are coming to the end of our portion on prayer, and next week we’ll actually wrap this series up talking about fasting. I assume, anyway. Fasting probably isn’t really a one week topic, but because we are focusing on these things from what Jesus specifically says within the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7, we are only going to look at the three verses in this section of scripture in how it pertains to fasting.

But, for today, we are going to finish up Jesus model of prayer from Matthew 6:9-15. Let’s read that and then get into the last few words.

/ / Pray then like this:

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

**For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”

Ok, so we’ve gone through almost all of that, and last week we took the first half of vs 13, / / And lead us not into temptation… and this week we will finish up vs 13, / / but deliver us from evil.

One of the things we looked at last week was the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. He’s baptized by John, and then immediately after, Matthew 4:1 says, / / Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil [diabolos].

And so getting right into it this morning. This is the first thing we want to address this morning:

/ / 1. There is a devil

Listen, you might be like, “of course there is.” and you might not. This is a bit dated, but the trend has not gone up, it’s gone down. In 2009, the Barna Group did research that showed / / 40% of self-described Christians, so people who say they are followers of Jesus, strongly agreed that Satan “is not a living being but is a symbol of evil.” And an additional / / 19% said they “agree somewhat”.

That means nearly 60% of self-described Christians are pretty sure the devil isn’t real, or at least confused about whether he is or not.

So, this is something we need to talk about. Is talking about the devil fun? No. But is ignoring the devil a smart thing to do? Absolutely not!

There are people who would like to convince you that there is no devil. There are even those who try to make the case that the devil isn’t all that bad. I haven’t watched it, I don’t think I care to. But Amazon put out a show that starts by saying Lucifer was just a dreamer, misunderstood by the elders of heaven, so they kicked him out. Disney has movies about the kids of all the heroes and villains from their movies, and even Hades turns out to be a decent guy. Now, you can read into that any way you want, really. But what I find interesting is that for most of history, stories have revolved around the concept of good and evil, or good vs. evil. So, they take evil and make it good, and then portray the good, who are wanting to stop evil, as evil themselves because they are trying to “hold the others down”. And whether you see it or not, directly feeds into a narrative that is being used today to paint Christianity and morality in a negative light.

Walk with me for a second.

If I can convince you that good and evil are human characters that deserve a second change. Then when evil, who has been personified, who you now have feelings about, an emotional response to because they are now represented as a person, and they get held back by good, they’re told that evil can not change, what does that say about good?

Listen, I’m not saying everyone thinks this way. I’m not saying these things are made with purely evil intent, or to undermine the church directly, BUT we have to be asking God for discernment. Why? Because those stats about the church? They’re the same about the world. A poll done just last year showed that / / less than 60% of Americans (Christian or non) believe there is a hell, and less than 60% of Americans believe there a devil.

Charles Baudelaire back in the 1800’s said, / / “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist…”

And Ken Ammi added, / / “The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he is the good guy.”

And this creates a real problem for those who advocate for the truth and what is right.

When the church stands up and says, “This is wrong. This is sin. This is morally corrupt.” And people look at it and say, “Are you saying THAT PERSON is evil? You’re evil for calling them that!”… But in reality, what we were saying is there is right and wrong, there is good and evil, there is a morality to uphold, and this goes against that. And even though, hopefully, you aren’t saying the PERSON is evil, it gets twisted.

In fact, if we believe in the doctrine of creation, that God did in fact create all things, and in Genesis it says that God himself declared that it (creation) was good. Then humanity, even as corrupt as it can become, is still intrinsically good. Hear me on this… I’m not saying that humanity is DOING good. I am saying all of humanity is the designed creation of a loving and perfect God that says of that creation, “You are my good creation!”, but also that he has given that creation free will and that in of themselves they CHOOSE to do right or wrong.

Do you see how they can take a story of good and evil, and twist it by personifying these things, so that when we as Christians stand up for what is right, they can shout back that we are being bigots, hateful, and putting them down and how dare we?

And now, in some places, and some situations, we are at a point where to simply say you believe something is a sin, could get you in real trouble. People get fired from jobs, people get questioned by the police even, depending on where you live.

But here’s the reality. There is good and evil. There is right and wrong. There is a devil.

And when we read about Jesus’ encounter in / / Matthew 4 in the wilderness we see two things very clearly. First, in this encounter, / / there is a real conversation that happens.

Matthew does not write that Jesus was tempted thinking about stones being bread.

It does not say he was tempted to throw himself off a building to prove he couldn’t be hurt.

Or that he stood on a mountain top and within himself struggled with a desire to bypass the cross.

It says very clearly:

vs 3 / / During that time the devil came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.”

vs 5 / / Then the devil took him to the holy city, Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple, and said, “If you are the Son of God, jump off…”

vs 8 / / Next the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, “I will give it all to you,” he said, “if you will kneel down and worship me.”

vs 11 / / Then the devil went away…

A real conversation, between two entities, Jesus, and Satan. If you read up on the terms used here, the Lexham Theological Workbook says that both words, “devil” and “satan” are used to refer to the same being.

The world might want you to think there’s no devil. But biblically it is quite clear that there is an adversary, an accuser, a supernatural entity that works within this world and the supernatural world against the will and purposes of God.

To give a bit of a biblical backdrop here. The prophet Zechariah writes of a vision in the night, or a dream he had from the Lord, and says in Zechariah 3:1-2, / / Then the angel showed me Jeshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord. The Accuser, Satan, was there at the angel’s right hand, making accusations against Jeshua. And the Lord said to Satan, “I, the Lord, reject your accusations, Satan. Yes, the Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you….”

So, the word satan in the Hebrew old testament is used as both a noun and a verb. So he is the accuser, satan, and the one who accuses, satan.

So the ESV says it like this, / / …and Satan [noun - satan] standing at his right hand to accuse [verb - satan] him.

/ / satan, the noun, is defined as an opponent; especially Satan, the arch-enemy of good. The adversary.

/ / satan, the verb, is defined, to attack, accuse, to be an adversary, or resist.

That scripture is a great description of both uses of the word.

Then when we go over to the New Testament, Jesus does not shy away from talking about the devil. He doesn’t hide from the spiritual realm, or talking about it. He confronts it head on like we see in the wilderness and the temptation, and also in the multiple locations in scripture where he casts out the demons who have been tormenting the people.

John 8:31-59, Jesus has a confrontation with a group of Pharisees. It starts with this. John 8:31, / / Jesus said to the people who believed in him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

“But we are descendants from Abraham,” they said. “We have never been slaves to anyone. What do you mean, ‘You will be set free’?”

And they go back and forth a bit talking about whose father they have. Jesus is of course talking about God the Father, the Father of all, and trying to get them to see that He is the Son of God. And they keep saying that Abraham is their father, and even at one point they say God himself is their true father. But by this point Jesus says to them this, (vs 42-44) / / “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I have come to you from God. I am not here on my own, but he sent me. Why can’t you understand what I am saying? It’s because you can’t even hear me! For you are the children of your father the devil, and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning. He has always hated the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

Again, Jesus pulling no punches here.

And what does he call satan? A murderer and a liar from the very beginning.

What does the story of Genesis tell us? That the devil uses deception and lies to convince Adam and Eve into eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which in turn introduces sin into the world through humanities action and what is the consequence, or the end result of sin? Romans 6:23, / / For the wages of sin is death…

If the devil can get you to sin, he’s got you. He’s causing death in your life or your situation.

Ok, so that’s the first thing we have to look at, the devil is real. And along with the devil, scripture says that there were angels that went with him, and are what we now call demons.

Revelation 12:3-4 is the scripture that most supports this thought. John, writing down the vision he is seeing says, / / Then I witnessed in heaven another significant event. I saw a large red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, with seven crowns on his heads. His tail swept away one-third of the stars in the sky, and he thew them to the earth.

And then in Revelation 12:9 he writes, / / This great dragon - the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world - was thrown down to earth with all his angels.

Revelation also talks about a star that had fallen from heaven.

Jesus mentions this in Luke 10:18, when the 72 disciples come back all excited that even the demons obeyed them, Jesus says, / / “Yes, I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightening!”

Isaiah 14, which in one way is talking about the King of Babylon but is commonly believed to also be talking about the fall of Satan out of heaven, says, / / “How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world. For you said to yourself, ‘I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God’s stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north. I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High…”

So, there’s some common theme here running through the Old and New Testaments that both show the fall of Satan, but also the connection between demons being fallen angels, or those who decided to follow satan as well.

I have this thing with Kaylee, not that she has been afraid, but if we ever get talking about the spiritual realm, angels and demons, I always remind her that scripture seems to suggest that for every demon there are 2 angels. Let alone God is the only being that is uncreated and undestroyable.

So, all of that to say, I believe there is biblical support for both the devil and demons, and we need to use discernment in our lives and the truth of God’s word to understand the world and times we live in.

/ / 2. Who Attacked You?

Alright, the next thing we want to address this morning is the idea of spiritual attacks.

Jesus tells us that we should pray like this, “God, please / / deliver us from evil.”

Now, when you look at the various translations of scripture, it’s a pretty even split between translations that say that, “deliver us from evil” which could be the general sense of “evil all around us” and then there are ones that say, / / “deliver us from the evil one.” In fact, 19 of the 32 that Biblehub brings up initially say “the evil one”, implying an entity, rather than just evil, the opposite of good.

So, in our case, let’s look at this word just to see how it’s used.

The greek word is poneros, and is used in a variety of different ways, or has a few different translations across scripture. It’s used / / 51 times just as “evil”, another 10 times as “wicked” and 6 times as “wicked one”, 2 times as “evil things” and 7x in various other ways. That’s in the KJV of the bible.

But, notice the overwhelming use. “Evil”. Now, that’s how it’s translated. Strong’s biblical dictionary defines the word as, / / 1. full of labors, annoyances, hardships 2. bad, of a bad nature or condition.

Our english definition of / / evil is (adjective) profoundly immoral and wicked, or (noun) profound immorality and wickedness, especially when regarded as a supernatural force.

Ok, so, looking at this word, Strong’s describes it as an adjective, meaning it’s describing rather than a noun, meaning the thing being described.

So, this is my personal conclusion here, and I’ll explain why I think this is important, but my take on this is that Jesus is saying / / pray that evil, in all of it’s forms, is far from you.

What would be described as evil, the act, this ‘labor’ or ‘bad nature’ this hardship, it’s described as “of a time full of peril to Christian faith and steadfastness, causing pain and trouble.” There is an overall sense of the effects of the evil one. Think of it this way, You have the evil one, or the devil, AND what he does. Jesus is saying, pray that God delivers you from the devil and the effects of what he is doing.

Now, the reason I think this is important is because here is what we are not going to do. I will not imply, and I would not teach that the devil himself is coming to get you. That you must fear the attack of the evil one himself, like you’re in some sort of movie and you are the hero pitted against the villain. If we are anything in the story of life it is the extras running around behind the hero.

And I say that, because we can be dramatic. Or at least. I know I can. I have for sure said, at least once in my life, “Man, it really feels like the devil is out to get me.” Anyone else?

Listen, I love you, but I’m sorry, I just don’t think you are that important. I am not that important. Jesus, on the other hand…He IS that important and Matthew 4 is clearly Jesus and the devil himself in the wilderness.

Why do I say that?

Well, we believe that God is / / Omni-Present, which means God existed outside of time and space, created time and space, and is not subject to time and space.

So God can be everywhere.

The Holy Spirit can be in each of us. We can feel the presence of God while someone in Australia can feel the presence of God.

We can hear the leading of the Holy Spirit while people in Paris can be led by the Holy Spirit.

We can be overwhelmed by the love of the Father at the same time as people in the arctic tundra of Canada and Russia can be overwhelmed by the love of God the Father.

/ / The devil is NOT omni-present. The devil is a created being and there is zero biblical indication that the devil can be anywhere else than where he is.

He is not god, he is not A god, He is not a demi-god, he is a created being.

This is important because we need to have right perspective on who and what we are up against.

I think Paul says it best in Ephesians 6:10-20 which is his encouragement to wear the full armor of God. Now, we don’t need to get into all of that, but let’s read his description of what he says we are up against.

/ / A final word: Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on all of God’s armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil. For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.

So, each of these is a good description of what we’re up against here:

The ESV describes them like this

/ / “the rulers” - the first, or rule of angels and demons

/ / “the authorities” - power, authority, the power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases

/ / “the cosmic powers” - kosmokrator - a world-ruler, an epithet of Satan. lord of the world, prince of this age, the devil and his demons.

/ / “the spiritual forces of evil” - that evil there is the noun, and the spiritual forces is exactly that, defining that which is spiritual, a being higher than man, but inferior to God.

John Mark Comer teaches this from the perspective of the three enemies of our soul, which is an outlook the Christian church has had for hundreds of years: / / The world, the flesh, and the devil.

Now, without getting into that too much, because that is a big topic, Let’s remember what Jesus said to the Pharisees that we read a bit ago. He says of the devil in John 8:44, / / “He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

What does Jesus say of himself? / / “I am the way, the truth and the life.”

And when we look at the main way the devil works in the world, I would suggest that it is trying to supplant the truth with lies. To replace what we believe about God with something else. That’s what we started looking at, right? If you can make evil good, make good evil. If you can distort the truth, make morality ambiguous.

He’s been doing it since the beginning in the garden with Adam and Eve, “Did God really say???”

He tried it with Jesus, “If you are really the Son of God…”

And he will consistently try it with you, “You don’t actually believe that, do you? It’s ok to live this way. God isn’t going to punish you for doing this. Remember, there’s grace, just do you. Be you. Listen to your own truth. Find your own truth.”

I personally think that Romans 1:18-32 is one of the clearest explanations of what has happened to our current society. Go and read that for homework this week. But, Paul writes in vs 21, / / Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.

You want to know why there’s so much deception and lack of common sense in the world right now, why there is such an embrace of what we might call evil, or morally corrupt, it’s because without looking to the truth of who God is, the lies of the enemy cause the mind to become dark and confused. Thinking we have found “our truth” we end up living in the enemies lies.

If we are not grounded in the truth of God we will be corrupted by the lies of the world, the flesh and the devil.

And I say all of that this morning to give us a right perspective on what we are fighting and what we are up against.

This is not a sword and shield battle against a flesh and blood enemy. This is a spiritual battle of good and evil, of truth and lies and Jesus is giving us the solution within the Lord’s prayer.

/ / 3. What To Do?

First, Jesus is telling us, and remember, we’ve seen through this prayer there is a implication that this is an everyday pattern for our lives. We ought to pray every day. And one of the things / / we should be praying everyday is, “God, would You deliver us from evil. Would you deliver us from the evil one.”

Listen, if you don’t believe these things exist. if you don’t believe the devil and demons even exist, you won’t pray to God to deliver you from them. Why do you think it seems that the devil has the world as his playground right now? 40-60% of the church don’t think this part of the Lord’s prayer is relevant because they don’t aren’t even sure the evil one exists!

We have to begin praying this, and praying this often.

Deliver us from the temptation that the enemy would bring.

Deliver us from the work of the devil.

Deliver us from forces of evil.

Deliver us from demons that would try to influence us or our lives.

Deliver us from the supernatural powers at work in this world that would try to distract, or lie and cause discouragement.

Pray these things every day.

Why?

Because the devil is real, and he’s not a toothless puppy.

Listen to what the Apostle Peter says. 1 Peter 5:8-9, / / Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith. Remember that your family of believers all over the world is going through the same kind of suffering you are.

Not a toothless little puppy, a prowling, roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

Does that mean we fear the devil? No, of course not, but it does mean we are aware. Look what Peter said, / / “Stay alert!”.

The ESV says to / / be sober-minded and watchful. Which means be calm and collected in spirit, and watchful means to give strict attention to. Peter is saying, be smart, be aware, and stay calm. Don’t get worked up, but understand if you are following Jesus, you are a target.

The CEV says it really well, / / Be on your guard and stay awake. Your enemy, the devil, is like a roaring lion, sneaking around to find someone to attack.

Not stay woke, stay awake. And there is a difference. The invitation to be “woke” is to accept everything and question nothing. I’m not saying everyone has everything wrong, but the caution that Peter is giving here to stay awake is to be cautious, watchful, and discerning of the truth and the lies that are out there.

Be on your guard and stay awake. Your enemy, the devil, is like a roaring lion, sneaking around to find someone to attack - and you better remember that. We wrestle not against flesh and blood. Our enemy is not the people deceived by the work of the enemy. Our enemy is not even the people trying to convince the world of an agenda that goes against the truth of God’s word and what we believe. Our enemy is the devil.

So Jesus says, pray this way, “Deliver us from evil, from the evil one… his schemes, his plans, his prowling, his sneaking about…”

That word deliver means to rescue, but not just rescue, there’s this idea of rushing, of a quick moving deliverance!

God, rush in and save us! Pull us out from any situation that the enemy would try to use.

Psalm 34:17 says, / / The Lord hears his people when they call to him for help. He rescues them from all their troubles.

Psalm 50:15, / / …call on me when you are in trouble, and I will rescue you…

Is the world in trouble right now? Is the church in trouble right now? Are you and me in trouble right now? Then we best get to calling on the name of the Lord! We better get on our knees and on our face before God and cry out for his deliverance, for a quick rescue!

So, in this little line, deliver us from evil, we are seeing three things:

/ / Recognize the devil is real

In my opinion, the best of biblical interpretation gives evidence of the devil

/ / Evil is more than just the devil

Not only does the best interpretation give evidence for the devil, but also, demons, or fallen angels. And evil is more than just the devil himself, and even more than demons. Evil exists in this world because of sin. When humanity chooses to ignore the ways of God, do our own thing, give in to the desires of the flesh, we make room for evil, which again, defined as immoral and wicked. Paul said he didn’t know why he did the things he wasn’t supposed to do, like he felt at war with himself.

I’m not calling you, or myself evil. I’m not calling people in the world evil. But we make way for evil by our actions. We give in to selfish, or earthly desires, Paul calls it our flesh, and in giving way to that we give place for evil, for immorality and corruption.

/ / Pray for deliverance from evil

The primary focus here today, Jesus is telling us these things, and that God wants to be involved in this area of our lives as well. You aren’t meant to fight against the devil and his demons as a one-man army. And we don’t just have to live life dealing with evil around us, but that we can ask of our God to keep temptation far from us, and deliver us, rescue us, pull us away from evil, whether that is the evil one, the demonic, or the evil within the world around us and humanities decisions.

And then a bonus point from a previous week: / / Make this a daily habit. Pray on a daily basis that God will keep evil far from you, and if and when it comes close, that he would deliver you from it!

Ok, so I want to take a minute here and wrap up this portion of scripture on prayer. It’s been a 7 week journey, and we’ve walked through these verses slowly and intentionally.

And I hope that you are seeing there is so much more to our prayer life than just saying whatever we want or hoping God does something for us, but that we have been invited by God to intentionally seek Him and know and understand his desires, his purposes, his kingdom, and to request things of him through a life of honoring him, obeying him, and recognizing his authority over our own, recognizing his purpose ahead of ours, desiring his will instead of our own.

The last thing I want to touch on in this part of this series is something that I felt like the Lord highlighted to me this past week as I was reading through these verses.

I said this already, Yes, Jesus is inviting each of us into a daily, individual, private prayer life, and one that is consistent and daily.

But what I had not considered, and this is my final point today, is that this is also / / very much a call to corporate prayer.

Let’s back up for a second. Matthew 6:5-6, we looked at this 7 weeks ago, in our very first week. Jesus tells his followers not to pray like the hypocrites who want to be seen and heard by others. And he encourages this in vs 6, / / But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

So why then, when we get to verse 9 and he begins to teach on how to pray, does he not use singular pronouns?

I had never noticed this before. But the Lord’s prayer is not, / / “MY Father in heaven…Give ME today MY daily bread, forgive ME MY debts as I have also forgiven MY debtors…lead ME not into temptation, but deliver ME from evil.”

That’s not what it is, is it? It’s:

/ / “OUR Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

/ / Give US this day OUR daily bread,

/ / and forgive US our debts, as WE also have forgiven OUR debtors.

/ / And lead US not into temptation, but deliver US from evil.”

Every translation of scripture uses plural pronouns, not singular. Every single translation. And I believe this is for 2 reasons:

/ / 1. Prayer is Corporate as well as Private

Jesus says in Matthew 18:20, / / For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them.

He’s a corporate God. He loves when the body of Christ comes together. We are meant to do this together. “But, that verse doesn’t say anything about praying.” You’re right.

But Matthew 18:19, the verse before, says, / / I also tell you this: If two of you agree here on earth concerning anything you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you.

Sounds a whole lot like prayer, doesn’t it?

Acts 2:42 says this about the early church, / / All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals, and to prayer.

I can’t imagine Luke is saying, teaching, fellowship, meals, all those are corporate, but you can only pray in private.

James says a few things about prayer together, but I like James 5:16, which says, / / Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

So, in wrapping up this part of the series on prayer specifically, we have to see that pray is both personal and corporate. And we are called to be a praying people, a people devoted to prayer.

And one last thought:

/ / 2. Pray For Your Church

I can’t stress this one enough. And let me ask this question. Do you pray for the person that’s sitting next to you, the person on the other side of this room, the person who you haven’t seen in a few weeks or a few months? Do you pray for the body of Christ that gathers here at Cutler Bay Worship Center?

I think Jesus is inviting us to that in the Lord’s prayer. That we are supposed to pray for each other. That prayer is not selfish. Prayer is not self-seeking. You can’t enter the kingdom of God only thinking about yourself, and so of course that’s the case when it comes to prayer.

When you pray, don’t just pray for yourself, pray for the body.

When you pray, don’t just think of your needs, think of those around you.

When you pray, don’t just ask for your safety, your deliverance, but for those we walk with, live with, are being discipled together in this community.

I need your prayer. You need my prayer.

You need the prayers of the person next to you. Go for it, just turn to them and say, “I need your prayers!”

Don’t wait for someone to ask you to pray for them. Start today.

Don’t wait for someone to have a problem, pray for them today.

Pray for blessing, for favor, for deliverance, for rescue, for the will of God to be evident in their lives, for the leading of the Holy Spirit to be obvious and for the endurance to follow through with how God is leading them.

Pray this pray, the Lord’s prayer, for each other….JUST AS MUCH as you need it for yourself.