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Matthew 6:10, “Your will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.”  Jesus

 

Praying for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven is really the consequence for praying God’s kingdom to come.  Everything done in heaven is always done perfectly.  Martin Lloyd-Jones summarizes the Scripture discussing heaven this way, “In heaven, everyone and everything is waiting upon God and anxious to glorify and magnify His name.  The supreme desire of all heaven is to do the will of God, and thereby praise and worship Him.”  Jesus is telling us that this should be the desire of every Christian on earth.  You can imagine what the world would be like if that happened!

 

Prayer must be concerned with the kingdom of God on earth now and with its ultimate fulfillment in the future.  Most people who grew up in the church do not want to pray “Your will be done” because they think they might end up in Africa or some other country as a missionary.  If they tell God to have His way with their life they just know He will pick the “pit of the world” and send them there.  You get the idea.  That’s not the idea of praying “Your will be done”.  That is not the God we serve; it is a lie from the enemy.

 

God does expect us to manage our time, to discipline ourselves, and to be well prepared for each day.  Many are great planners.  But God wants us to pray then plan. What is Your will for today?  What and how can I best accomplish Your work, where I am, with what I have?  When we pray, we get in sync with God and His will gets accomplished.  We must pray for the spiritual presence and manifestation of the kingdom of God now.  Why is this important when we plan?  It is prayer that destroys the work of Satan among His people, heals the sick, saves the lost, promotes righteousness, and prays for the return of Jesus Christ. 

 

Oswald Chambers has written, “Prayer alters a man from the inside, alters his mind and his attitude to things.  The point of prayer is not that we get things from God, but that we learn by prayer to detect the difference between God’s order and God’s permissive will.  God’s order is no pain, no sickness, no devil, no sin; His permissive will is all of these things.  What a man needs to do is get hold of God’s order in the kingdom on the inside, and then he will begin to see how to handle the riddle of the universe on the inside.”  Right now, all of us need to discover how to handle the riddle of the universe!  The answer lies with learning to pray, “Your will be done”. 

 

Did you ask yourself while reading any of this how God’s will is done in heaven?  The angels do the will of God immediately, unreservedly, unconditionally and joyfully!  What could God do in you and me if we were fully, totally, completely, unreservedly, and immediately available to do whatever He asked us to do?  There are many things found in God’s Word that we are to pray about and do.  God does not have to spell out everything for us, to give us every detail He is going to do.  He does see everything that is happening.  Praying for something or for someone for years does not mean there is nothing happening.  Remember the chorus to the song that says, “Even though I don’t see it, you’re working”?  God hears every prayer spoken and is responding to it whether we see it or not.  When we pray “Your will be done”, forces are at work.  I may not always understand but I trust God.

 

Our relationship with God is immeasurably strengthened and deepened when we learn to pray as Jesus taught us to pray.  It is a powerful prayer that brings powerful results because it is directed to an all-powerful God.

 

 

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