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The Kingdom and Will of God

The next lines of Jesus’ Model Prayer deal with the kingdom and the will of God. 

"Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

Just as Jesus pointed to the glory of God in the previous portion of His prayer, He continued with a God-centered perspective. Jesus instructed us to pray that God’s kingdom would come and that God’s will would be done on earth as it is in heaven. 

God’s will is done on earth when believers follow God’s revealed will, His desire for us to follow Him. On earth we get distracted by our business and fall into sinful patterns. The Model Prayer sets our vision on heaven. 

Jesus told us that we should pray for God’s kingdom to come and for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. The kingdom of God is present anywhere the reign and rule of God are lovingly embraced. The kingdom of God has already come in Christians because we’ve surrendered to His will as our Lord. We should continue to pursue God’s will and rule in us and in the rest of the world. Of course, we must relinquish our own will and die to ourselves daily, for we can’t pursue both our will and God’s will at the same time.

As we pray, we pray in faith that God will bring His kingdom. One way we show the validity of our faith is through our actions, seeking the kingdom and the will of God even as we pray for them to come.