Worthy Brief - 8/10/2026
Friend, deliver us from the evil one!
Matthew 6:13 And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Yeshua (Jesus) has taught us to pray as children before the Father, disciples surrendered to the Kingdom, dependent upon Him for our daily bread. He has taught us to forgive and to be forgiven. Now He brings the prayer to its final cry of humility and warfare: deliver us from the evil one. He does not end where fear would end it -- He ends where worship begins. After bread and forgiveness, He brings His disciples to the edge of two realities every believer must face — trial and evil — and does not linger there. The answer to both was never a strategy. It is the declaration of His eternal Kingdom.
This is the prayer of someone who knows his own weakness. The disciple does not boast that he can handle anything, or presume upon his own strength. He asks His Abba for protection because he knows his flesh is weak and the enemy is real. The word translated temptation carries the sense of testing, trial, proving. God may allow testing, but He does not entice His people into evil -- so this prayer is not accusing anyone. It is a plea of a child saying, Abba, do not let me be brought to a place where I will fall. Guard me. This is deeply Hebraic. The righteous man does not trust in himself; he trusts in the Lord. The Psalms are filled with statements such as lead me, keep me, deliver me. Faith is not self-confidence dressed in spiritual language — it is dependence, the confession that we need our Abba not only to forgive us after we fall, but to keep us from falling.
Deliver us from the evil one is more than a plea to avoid hardship. It is prayer for deliverance from the schemes of the adversary, ha-satan (הַשָּׂטָן), whose strategy has not changed from the garden: to question God's word, awaken distrust, entice the flesh, pull the heart from allegiance to the King.
The Kingdom does not advance in neutral territory. To pray Your Kingdom come is to recognize that rival powers resist it. To pray for deliverance is to ask the Father to rescue us from every power pulling us away from His Kingdom purpose.
Then the prayer rises into worship: For Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. This echoes King David before all Israel: "Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory... Yours is the kingdom" (1 Chronicles 29:11).
The Lord’s prayer ends, not with a request, but a declaration. Malkhut (מַלְכוּת), gevurah (גְּבוּרָה), and kavod (כָּבוֹד): kingdom, power, glory, handed back to God.
The Kingdom is His. The power is His. The glory is His — not the enemy's, not the flesh's, not ours. His reign is not threatened; His purposes will stand. He is not merely willing to deliver us; He is more than able. Every rescue, every deliverance returns praise to His name. This is why the prayer ends in confidence. We ask for help because we are weak, but we worship because He is strong.
This is ashrei (אַשְׁרֵי) — blessed is the one who knows where deliverance is found, who brings his weakness before the Father and refuses to make peace with temptation. Pray with honesty and courage: ask Him to keep you, to lead you from what would enslave you, to deliver you from the enemy's schemes. Then lift your eyes — the Kingdom is His, the power is His, the glory is His, forever.
Temptation does not get the final word. The evil one does not get the final word. Your weakness does not get the final word. Your Father does.
Friend, you are held inside a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, covered by a glory that outshines every shadow. You stand within a dominion whose outcome is already declared: forever. Walk as one already delivered. Speak as one who knows to whom the kingdom belongs — His is the power, His is the glory — and when you stand in this reality, you walk in His certain victory.
Your family in the Lord with much agape love,
George & Baht Rivka (Baltimore, Maryland)
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