Ask God Alone to Deliver You

We complete our study of Thomas Watson’s teaching through the sixth petition of the Lord’s Prayer (there will be a few more weeks of supplemental studies to conclude this series). We pray in “Deliver us from evil,” that God will either 1) prevent temporal evils or 2) deliver us out of them. And lastly, “In all the troubles that lie upon us, let us look up to God for ease and succour … To pray to saints is idolatry advanced to blasphemy. Our Saviour has taught us in all our distresses to pray to God for a cure … Let us, then, in all our straits and exigencies, look to God, and say, ‘Deliver us from evil.'”