Redeemer Reformed Church of Oklahoma City

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. –Matthew 6:9-10 In James 5:16 we’re told, “The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” Then James gives you the example of Elijah praying [...]

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. –Matthew 6:9-10a The return of Christ with the consummation of the kingdom is an eternal decree of God. So why would our prayer for “Thy Kingdom come” matter? Besides that, if Jesus preached any content to the gospel at all, [...]

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. –Matthew 6:9 The reason “hallowed by thy name” is called the “first petition” is because it is just that: a petition, a request. It’s easy to think that it is a statement of a fact—something like, “Our Father in heaven, your name is [...]

Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven. –Matthew 6:9 Jesus commands us to pray a certain way, not merely to our Creator, Judge, or even King, but to our Father. Justification is fundamental; it is the doctrine by which the church stands or falls. But it is legal; it is forensic. It is a [...]

“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door [...]

So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. For the famine [...]

“Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life, as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of [...]

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him. And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.” –Luke 16:14,15 This is a fascinating two verses [...]

As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you [...]

When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.” So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe [...]