Matthew 18:18-20 "Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven..." "Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
earthbound. / (ˈɜːθˌbaʊnd) / adjective. confined to the earth. lacking in imagination; pedestrian or dull.
Jesus said in Matthew 6:9-13 (ESV):“ 9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, On earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread, And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
To invest on earth as it is in heaven requires us to be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves, to sharply distinguish evil from good, and to oppose such evil with whatever means we have been given.
idiom. He vowed that he would move heaven and earth to finish the project on schedule.
Matthew 18:18-20 MSG
“Take this most seriously: A yes on earth is yes in heaven; a no on earth is no in heaven. What you say to one another is eternal. I mean this. When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a prayer of it, my Father in heaven goes into action.
Lord, grant us the wisdom to care for the earth and till it. Help us to act now for the good of future generations and all your creatures. Help us to become instruments of a new creation, Founded on the covenant of your love.
'On' is similar to on top of: I sat on the chair; The glass is on the table; Put the hat on your head. So in The Lord's Prayer, we say "on earth", not "in earth" because 'in' would imply that we are within the earth which is not physically possible.
And He wants us to be part of it (Hebrews 12:28). We help bring heaven to earth by listening to Jesus and doing what He says (Matthew 7:21, Matthew 10:7-8). Heaven is an eternal reality after we die, and it's a present reality on earth as more people meet Jesus and follow Him.
Introduction. “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.” (Philippians 2:10 – NIV) The image this text evokes is the existence of different places, heavenly and earthly, which Christians believed in from the very beginning.
It's a powerful thing to pray Thy Kingdom Come, or as we would say in modern English, Your Kingdom Come. To pray Thy Kingdom Come means to invite God's will into the world and to be open to what God wants for your life. It is also looking forward to Jesus' Second Coming to fully establish God's reign.
When we pray 'Your will be done,' we are asking for faith in what God has kept secret, obedience in what God has revealed, and wisdom in what God has called us to discern. — This article is adapted from the sermon “God's Will” in the series on the Lord's Prayer, Six Things to Ask of God.
Binding and loosing is originally a Jewish Mishnaic phrase also mentioned in the New Testament, as well as in the Targum. In usage, to bind and to loose simply means to forbid by an indisputable authority and to permit by an indisputable authority.
All things in and on the earth stay earthbound because of the earth's gravity. This includes air which is in the gaseous form. Due to the earth's gravity, air is pulled to the earth's surface.
: placed under legal or moral restraint or obligation : obliged. duty-bound.
These three powerful morning prayers are the prayers of thanksgiving, the Lord's Prayer, and the prayer of Jabez. Jesus taught his disciples how to pray, the Bible tells us to enter his gates with thanksgiving, and Jabez prayed to God and God granted him his request.
In heaven, he applies all that he accomplished on the cross to all who believe in him. And he does this by presenting you to the Father as his own! He brings you before the Father, and the Father sees you in him.
Why do we address God as "Our Father who art in heaven"? We address God as "Our Father who art in heaven" because we belong to Him, our loving Father, who created us and watches over us, who adopts us through sanctifying grace as His children, and who destines us to live forever with Him in heaven, our true home.
For the whole world: that all people, who have one Maker and Father, may acknowledge one another as brothers and sisters, without discrimination of race or nation, and with sincere hearts seek the Kingdom of God, which is peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, let us pray to the Lord. ± Lord, we ask you, hear our prayer.
Novena to the Blessed Mother, Queen of Heaven and Earth
Obtain for me also, Queen of Heaven and Earth, the most lively contrition for my many sins and the grace to imitate closely those virtues which you practiced so faithfully, especially humility, purity, and obedience.
We pray you, send us rain, abundant, plentiful, fertilizing; and make the earth yield fruit and to spare; for we know how you love us, we know your kindness. Hear our petitions and prayers and bless the whole earth, through Jesus Christ.
The original Hebrew of Psalm 86:11 reads “Teach me, O Lord, your ways, that I might walk in your truth/faithfulness.” The Hebrew word translated as “faithfulness” in the NIV can also mean “truth” ('emet; see NRSV, ESV). “To walk” means, in this context, to live each day.
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
Bible Gateway Psalm 115 :: NIV. Not to us, O LORD, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness. Why do the nations say, "Where is their God?" Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.