Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done
(7 minutes)
In this manner, therefore, pray:
Our Father 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 our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
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
(Matthew 6:9-13 NKJV)
Pray like this: "Our Beloved Father, dwelling in the heavenly realms, may the glory of your name be the center on which our lives turn. Manifest your kingdom realm, and cause your every purpose to be fulfilled on earth, just as it is in heaven. Forgive us the wrongs we have done as we ourselves release forgiveness to those who have wronged us. Rescue us every time we face tribulation and set us free from evil. For you are the King who rules with power and glory forever. Amen." (Matthew 6:9-13 TPT)
The disciples witnessed so much power in the life of Jesus that they assumed it had something to do with His prayer life, with His intimacy with Abba. And they were right in their thinking. So they asked Him how to pray. This is so right! When we see something in Jesus that we do not yet see established in our own life, it should cause us to go to Him in intimacy and say, "How? Teach me! Show me!"
Jesus opens this prayer with the most offensive words to the culture of His day. Calling God "Father" or "Dada" would have easily gotten you kicked out of the synagogue. The fear of religion kept the Father at a distance, only referred to as "God" and "Master" and "Lord," but never Dada, never "our Father." Everyone needs an encounter with the Abba revelation - He is the Beloved Father and we are His Beloved Sons and Daughters.
Then Jesus says, "Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." This is the heart of theFather revealed to us. We're not biding our time, waiting on some end-of-days escape plan. We're ushering in the Kingdom of God on the earth, just as it is in heaven.
"Is Jesus giving them something that could not be accomplished, or is He telling them it can be accomplished? If Jesus is saying that His will could be accomplished on earth, why have we been looking to escape? Why have we be parroting out of our mouth that it's going to get to worse, that His will has no chance in being done here? Because we became intimate with delusional thinking. We became intimate with what this world is parroting. And what this world was telling us gave us the theology of 'it's getting worse.' And Jesus is telling us that we should be in the secret place asking for His kingdom to be here now." (Pastor Tim)
Either Jesus thinks that it's possible to have the Kingdom of God established on the earth, or He's lying. Which is it?
Abba wants His will to be happening on the earth in the same way that it's happening in heaven. He wants everything that's happening in heaven to be established on the earth. When? Right now.
"How many of us grew up thinking that it was possible to have heaven on earth? So what kingdom have we been eating from if none of us thought this?" (Pastor Tim)
What we're meditating on is being reproduced in our lives. Whatever kingdom we're living more aware of is having more influence on us and the decisions we're making. The things we're seeing reproduced in us, in our kids, in our families, and in our lives all originate from what kingdom we're being most intimate with.
Jesus is inviting us to see the Kingdom established on the earth. He's inviting us to be a part of the restoration of all things. He's asking us to change the way we think, and start feeding from the Kingdom of God that is available to us right now. Our intimate encounters with Him can shift our thinking so much that we could literally begin seeing everything that's happening in heaven established in our own lives.
Abba, let Your kingdom come and Your will be done, right here, right now! Start declaring this over your life, over your kids, over your family, and over generations to come. Beloved Sons and Daughters are starting to believe that we could actually see Yahweh’s Kingdom established on the earth. We don’t need an escape plan! We’re going to witness an invasion of heaven in the cosmos, and the glory of God will cover the earth like the waters cover the sea. We will see the restoration of all things, and we will see it in our own lives first.
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