God's Will Be Done

Here we continue our look at the Model Prayer.  We cover all this more on Sunday.  

Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. This request makes the assumption that God’s will is done in heaven, but not on earth, yet (in the same full way). Sin and rebellion are not present in heaven, but interruptions are present on earth. We see that this is another request for the spreading of God’s kingdom rule on earth. It is primarily brought through the church as the agent of the kingdom. Our prayers are to be continual reminders to ourselves to “get with” the kingdom program. Sadly, too many believers live for the weekends and not for Christ’s kingdom.

God Bless

 

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God's Kingdom (Matt 6:10a)

 

6:10a Let your Kingdom come:

     The phrase The Kingdom of God is representative of the whole New Testament. No phrase is used more often in prayer and in the preaching and teaching of Scripture. It is important that we should be clear as to what it means.

     It is obvious that the Kingdom of God was central to the message of Jesus. The first appearance of Jesus on the scene of history was when he came into Galilee preaching the good news of the Kingdom of God (Mk 1:14). Jesus himself said that the preaching of the kingdom was an obligation laid upon him: "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities also, for I was sent for this purpose" (Lk 4:43; Mk 1:38). Luke's description of Jesus' activity is that he went through every city and village preaching and showing the good news of the Kingdom of God (Lk 8:1). Clearly the meaning of the Kingdom of God is something which we should try to understand.

     We also ses that Jesus spoke of the Kingdom in three different ways. He spoke of the Kingdom as existing in the past. He said that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets were in the Kingdom (Lk 13:28; Matt 8:11). Clearly therefore the Kingdom goes far back into history. He spoke of the Kingdom as present. "The Kingdom of God," he said, "is in the midst of you" (Lk 17:21). The Kingdom of God is therefore a present reality here and now. He spoke of the Kingdom of God as future, he taught men to pray for the coming of the Kingdom in this prayer. See you Sunday!  www.ibcatinyokern.com

Making God's Name Holy

The last part of Mt. 6:9 is Hallowed be your name. 
This is an exert from the prayer that is commonly called “the Lord’s Prayer,” but it is actually more “the disciples’ prayer.” This prayer, which is repeated by many Christians, contains elements that are important for all prayers: 
The first element is that prayer is to begin with worship. God is addressed as Our Father in heaven. Worship is the lifeblood of all prayer. If you read in vv. 1–18 Jesus used the word “Father” 10 times! This shows us that only those who have true inner righteousness can address God in that way in worship. 
The second element is reverence, for God’s name is to be hallowed, it must be revered.

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