...But God

Matthew 6: 9-14

Creators and Guests

Host
Chad McBeam
Business Leader, Foster Advocate and Fighter of Human Trafficking, Chad enjoys hosting this podcast channel as a way to spread and highlight the great examples of those who live out their faith daily. He can also be seen on occasion on your TV or Film Screen or be heard narrating one of your books as his love of acting has stuck with him since his childhood.
Writer
Aaron Marcarelli
After getting his under-graduate degree from Cal State University San Bernardino where he played college baseball and received all American honors. he was a graduate assistant baseball coach at both Trevecca Nazarene College in Nashville, Tennessee, and at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington.  He received his master’s degree in Teaching from Whitworth, with plans to someday be a head baseball coach at a university.  However, God had other plans.  Aaron started teaching English and History and coaching baseball and other sports at the high school level and found out how much he loves high school kids, and he has been doing that for the past 27 years.     Personally, heI has been married to his wife Sharon for 32 years, they have one daughter, Amanda Parrish, who has been married to Austin Parrish for 2 years. Aaron also has two grandsons Travis age 2 ½ and Aden who is 13 months and are blessed to have another on the way due in May. Aaron loves reading, golfing, and spending time with his wife and grandkids.
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Linda Cowen
Linda Cowen of San Antonio Christian School is our gracious and talented art designer for the But God, weekday morning devotional series.

What is ...But God?

A weekday morning devotional series written by Aaron Marcarelli and hosted by Chad McBeam

“Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father, who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. ‘ Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. ‘Give us this day our daily bread. ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Matthew 6:9-14 NASB2020
This is an outline of how we should pray. (We will be in Matthew 9-14 a few days.)
“Our Father” He is our Abba our dad, He is the Father of All. He is the perfect example of what a good father should be. We must use Him as the example of Fatherhood! There are not any earthly father’s we should be following, no matter how good or how bad that earthly father was. God is the perfect father. No other father gave up His only son to save all of the world. He is the perfect example, we should follow Him. This is how God treats us always “So he set out and came to his father. But when he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.”
Luke 15:20 NASB2020
Therefore, because He is the perfect Father who has done great things we should praise, honor and give reverence to Him. The Psalms do this better than any other book of the Bible. Praising Him in both the good times and bad. It would take hours to site all the verses in the 150 chapters of Psalms that praise the Lord our God. How about Psalm 148:1 “Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens; Praise Him in the heights!”
and Psalm 150:1 “Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His mighty expanse.” just to site a couple verses of when things are going well. We should not just praise Him in the good, but always. How about Psalm 23 4-6. “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My cup overflows. Certainly goodness and faithfulness will follow me all the days of my life, And my dwelling will be in the house of the Lord forever.” Or Psalm 40:1-3 “I waited patiently for the Lord; And He reached down to me and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the mud; And He set my feet on a rock, making my footsteps firm. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; Many will see and fear And will trust in the Lord.”
Start all prayer with Honoring the Lord our God for He has given us everything. Including His only son for the forgiveness of sin so that we may have life with Him for eternity.
Lord, God of heaven and earth. We praise you for your great mercies and for your son’s sacrifice that gave us remission of our sin, so that we may have eternal life with you. We pray for our needs and those in our lives that are suffering. Please comfort them. Thank you for forgiveness! Help us to forgive others. We pray that you would come again soon to set up your eternal Kingdom forever. We pray all this in Jesus Name Amen…
Shalom Blessings and Press in and Press on!