Isaiah Roman

Kingdom, Power and Glory

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. – Matthew 6:9-14

The nature of the Trinity is revealed in the Lord’s Prayer. The Father is the glory. The Son is the Kingdom¹. The Spirit is the Power².

All worship is due to the glory of the Father³. Even the Son gives deference to this fact⁴. The Kingdom of God is ushered in by the Son. By Him all things were made and through Him all things have come to be⁵. The Spirit is that person who is the Power of God through both realms. He is the conduit through which our prayers⁶ are carried to God. He is the power of the miracle of the virgin birth⁷. He is the presence of the Shekinah Glory in the temple⁸.

It is through the Trinity that we receive the promises of God. Those promises are kept based upon the holy nature of the Father, to the glory of the Kingdom, through the Power of His will. These promises are; daily sustenance, forgiveness of “debts,” delivery from temptation. There are no promises beyond these. We are not told that we will be protected from harm, healed from illness, given the power of miracles, or shown visions of prophecy. Each of these may, or may not happen, dependent upon God’s providence.

The way that these promises are carried out is contingent upon the very nature of God. The Father sends the Son, who is the “first of creation⁹” to be the “key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open.¹⁰” The Son sends the Comforter¹¹, the Spirit, who writes these words on our hearts¹², who “doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God¹³”, who carries our prayers to heaven and “doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable¹⁴” and who “doth intercede for saints.¹⁵”

Each of the three persons of God are of one being. Each of the three persons of God have distinct purpose, to one effect. Each of the three persons of God are co-equal and co-eternal. They are not one being and one person. They are not three persons in one person. They are three personal instances of one self-existent, self-sentient, uncaused being; each with a distinct purpose in the order, justice and love that is the nature, character and intent of the great I AM.

This is the essence of the being who has condescended to love us in all things. Should we not give back the small portion that we are able to Him who has and does provide so much for us?

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. – Matthew 6:25-34

1. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. – Luke 1:33 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. – Luke 10:9 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. – Luke 11:20 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. – Luke 12:31
2. But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. – Micah 3:8 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. – Luke 4:14 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. – Romans 15:19
3. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. – John 4:23 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. – John 1:14 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. – Romans 6:4
4. And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. – Matthew 26:39 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. – John 5:30
5. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. – John 1:3
6. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; – Ephesians 6:18 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. – Romans 8:27
7. And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. – Luke 1:35
8. The word shekinah does not appear in the Bible, but the concept clearly does. The Jewish rabbis coined this extra-biblical expression, a form of a Hebrew word that literally means “he caused to dwell,” signifying that it was a divine visitation of the presence or dwelling of JEHOVAH God on this earth.
9. who is the image of the invisible God, the First-born of all creation. – Colossians 1:15
10. And the key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder, so that he opens, and no one shuts; and he shuts, and no one opens. – Isaiah 22:22 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write: These things says the Holy One, the True One, the One having “the key of David,” “the One opening, and no one shuts; and shuts, and no one opens:” – Revelation of John 3:7
11. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: – John 15:26
12. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. – Jeremiah 31:33 For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth; – Ephesians 5:9
13. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: – Romans 8:16
14. And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth us , we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable, – Romans 8:26
15. and He who is searching the hearts hath known what is the mind of the Spirit, because according to God he doth intercede for saints. – Romans 8:27