For Yours Is The Kingdom

For Yours Is The Kingdom

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Matthew 6:13b

As Christ teaches us to complete our prayer to ‘Our Father in heaven,’ He brings us to the place of praise. We have come, as children to an Ever-loving Father with our hopes and desires, our fears and our doubts, our failings and our triumphs. He has shown Himself, in every circumstance to be the God of Grace and the God of all comfort. As we conclude our prayer, we pray, first, ‘For Yours is the Kingdom.’ When we pray this, we are declaring that God is Sovereign. We are acknowledging that He Rules over all of the affairs of all of humanity and that all the universe performs His Will, knowingly or unknowingly. When we pray, ‘For Yours is the Kingdom,’ we are proclaiming our loyalty to God as King and to Christ Who is the ‘brightness of His glory and the express image of His Person.’ We are, by these words testifying that we are glad that it is so. We praise God that He is Who He is, what He is and that His Character, Authority, and Rulership will never end. We are glad to be the children of Our Father in heaven, and the subjects of the High King of All kings. We ‘enter into His Gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise.’ We are thankful unto Him and we bless His Name.  To complete our prayer to this High and Holy One, we begin with the words, ‘For Yours is the Kingdom.’

Our High and Holy King,
we rejoice that You rule Heaven and Earth.
We praise You that all which You have determined
shall infallibly come to pass and that we will rejoice in it.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning