.The Lord's Prayer

I want to focus on one aspect of the so-called "Lord's Prayer". Why did Jesus instruct us to pray "Your Kingdom come, your will be done..."? Surely God's kingdom will come and God's will is going to be done anyway? If we fail to understand why Lord Jesus commanded this, we will miss a vital aspect of the relationship between God and His people.

God created Adam in His image and likeness. God gave Adam and Eve authority over all the earth and all of God's creation. That includes Satan, who had been evicted from heaven.

Adam gave that God-given authority to Satan and so became Satan's puppet (1 John 5:19). However, God never took back Adam's authority. So man is still responsible for managing God's creation.

Now I will step into controversial territory. God requires the cooperation of a man before He will do His work on earth. Unless God can find a man that will obey, God will do nothing. God can do as He pleases. But it pleases God to respect mankind. This is why God required a Noah before He sent the flood. It is why He required an Abraham before He commenced His plan to crush Satan's head through the seed of the woman.

We see through Bible history men and women of God who cooperated with God in this way. In the Lord's prayer, Lord Jesus reaffirmed that God's way has not changed. We should discover God's will and pray accordingly. We know that God will hear and answer such prayer.

If God's people become passive and complacent, God will wait for someone to become dissatisfied, humble themselves, repent and pray. If this does not happen, God will bypass that congregation, and even the nation. Anyone know where Laodicea is now? How about Pergamum or Ephesus? Those churches were rebuked and exhorted to repent. Their ruins are located in what is now Turkey.

If you are putting your hope in a mere man to make your nation great, think again. Many can quote 2 Chronicles 7:14. Not nearly so many are following God's instruction. How do I know? "Christian" nations are not healed. Europe is under the heel of Islam, not that they will admit it. America is on a knife edge. Australia has a limited spiritual heritage but even that is fading away. And it shows.

God will do nothing until His people pray. And He will do little unless and until there is unity (psalm 133). This does not mean we have to agree on every doctrinal point. That is just as well because we would be waiting forever. But we can agree on the essentials and agree to disagree on the rest.

Yes, God wants to work through people. But He can also work by Himself.


Isaiah 59:16 NKJV "He saw that there was no man, And wondered that there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; And His own righteousness, it sustained Him."

I want to focus on one aspect of the so-called "Lord's Prayer". Why did Jesus instruct us to pray "Your Kingdom come, your will be done..."? Surely God's kingdom will come and God's will is going to be done anyway? If we fail to understand why Lord Jesus commanded this, we will miss a vital aspect of the relationship between God and His people.

God created Adam in His image and likeness. God gave Adam and Eve authority over all the earth and all of God's creation. That includes Satan, who had been evicted from heaven.

Adam gave that God-given authority to Satan and so became Satan's puppet (1 John 5:19). However, God never took back Adam's authority. So man is still responsible for managing God's creation.

Now I will step into controversial territory. God requires the cooperation of a man before He will do His work on earth. Unless God can find a man that will obey, God will do nothing. God can do as He pleases. But it pleases God to respect mankind. This is why God required a Noah before He sent the flood. It is why He required an Abraham before He commenced His plan to crush Satan's head through the seed of the woman.

We see through Bible history men and women of God who cooperated with God in this way. In the Lord's prayer, Lord Jesus reaffirmed that God's way has not changed. We should discover God's will and pray accordingly. We know that God will hear and answer such prayer.

If God's people become passive and complacent, God will wait for someone to become dissatisfied, humble themselves, repent and pray. If this does not happen, God will bypass that congregation, and even the nation. Anyone know where Laodicea is now? How about Pergamum or Ephesus? Those churches were rebuked and exhorted to repent. Their ruins are located in what is now Turkey.

If you are putting your hope in a mere man to make your nation great, think again. Many can quote 2 Chronicles 7:14. Not nearly so many are following God's instruction. How do I know? "Christian" nations are not healed. Europe is under the heel of Islam, not that they will admit it. America is on a knife edge. Australia has a limited spiritual heritage but even that is fading away. And it shows.

God will do nothing until His people pray. And He will do little unless and until there is unity (psalm 133). This does not mean we have to agree on every doctrinal point. That is just as well because we would be waiting forever. But we can agree on the essentials and agree to disagree on the rest.

Matthew 6:9 “This, then, is how you should pray:

“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from the evil

I would like to focus on verse 13 as I see this as a Tribulation prayer at the end of the age.

Lord doesn't lead anyone into temptation and my understanding is a trial or testing a.k.a. Tribulation

but deliver us from evil or evil one a.k.a. antichrist

God, Lord Jesus Christ will save you before you pray for it. Sometimes you are setup for being saved in advance, even many years before it happens. For example, something you see as a handicap, a curse. It could actually be something that will save you, for whatever reason.

Sometimes things happen in a flash, in just a moment. Do you have time to sit down and write a poem to God. But, God does save us. Keep in mind Jesus said it's not going to be perfect life. There is going to be offences.

I want to focus on one aspect of the so-called "Lord's Prayer". Why did Jesus instruct us to pray "Your Kingdom come, your will be done..."? Surely God's kingdom will come and God's will is going to be done anyway? If we fail to understand why Lord Jesus commanded this, we will miss a vital aspect of the relationship between God and His people.

God created Adam in His image and likeness. God gave Adam and Eve authority over all the earth and all of God's creation. That includes Satan, who had been evicted from heaven.

Adam gave that God-given authority to Satan and so became Satan's puppet (1 John 5:19). However, God never took back Adam's authority. So man is still responsible for managing God's creation.

Now I will step into controversial territory. God requires the cooperation of a man before He will do His work on earth. Unless God can find a man that will obey, God will do nothing. God can do as He pleases. But it pleases God to respect mankind. This is why God required a Noah before He sent the flood. It is why He required an Abraham before He commenced His plan to crush Satan's head through the seed of the woman.

We see through Bible history men and women of God who cooperated with God in this way. In the Lord's prayer, Lord Jesus reaffirmed that God's way has not changed. We should discover God's will and pray accordingly. We know that God will hear and answer such prayer.

If God's people become passive and complacent, God will wait for someone to become dissatisfied, humble themselves, repent and pray. If this does not happen, God will bypass that congregation, and even the nation. Anyone know where Laodicea is now? How about Pergamum or Ephesus? Those churches were rebuked and exhorted to repent. Their ruins are located in what is now Turkey.

If you are putting your hope in a mere man to make your nation great, think again. Many can quote 2 Chronicles 7:14. Not nearly so many are following God's instruction. How do I know? "Christian" nations are not healed. Europe is under the heel of Islam, not that they will admit it. America is on a knife edge. Australia has a limited spiritual heritage but even that is fading away. And it shows.

God will do nothing until His people pray. And He will do little unless and until there is unity (psalm 133). This does not mean we have to agree on every doctrinal point. That is just as well because we would be waiting forever. But we can agree on the essentials and agree to disagree on the rest.