Title: Thy Kingdom Come! (Matthew 6:7-10)
[Matthew 6:7-10]
[7] ♠ And when you pray, do not keep babbling like the Gentiles, for they think that they will hear you when they talk a lot. ] ♠ Therefore pray this way, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name [10] ♠ Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Prayer is the greatest privilege given to God's children. Through prayer, we can go to God, the Creator, and have fellowship, put all our worries down before the Lord, and the way will open for us to work with God's tremendous power. If the Holy Spirit works through prayer, we can do greater work than the Lord has done. (John 14:12)
Through the Lord's Prayer, the Lord points out the wrong ideas about prayer. First of all, prayers adorned with flashy language are wrong. I think that you have to say a lot to be moved, but God wants a prayer that is not moved by fancy words and is delivered from the heart through pure language. Even if we do not know Bilba, the Holy Spirit helps and hears our prayers. (Romans 8:26)
Also, it is wrong to pray in vain. Prayers that are habitually spit out without a connection between heart and mind are prayers of those who follow idols. God wants us to pray for our whole person.
It is wrong to pray as a means. God knows our needs before we even pray. Nevertheless, prayer is because it requires a dialogue between the two sides to align ourselves with God's interests. Jesus exemplified this prayer through the prayer of Gethsemane in the face of the suffering of carrying the cross. He read the Father's heart in prayer and confessed that he wanted it to come true. Instead of praying for God to be on my side, we should pray for me to be on God's side. So, I have to align myself and submit to the will of God.
Jesus teaches us to pray with God's hope as our priority. The first thing we need to pray about is God's name, God's kingdom, and God's will. Looking at the nature of God's name, we pray that the kingdom of the Lord will be established, and that our lives will obey God's will.
Prayer is life. Just as Jesus devoted himself to prayer when he started his earthly ministry, raised his disciples, and when his popularity soared or was about to be crossed, prayer should become our life. We need to break our self-centered thinking and pray while dreaming of the glory of God's kingdom. God, who started a good work through the Philippian church, gave us a dream to change all Europe and the whole world. (Philippians 1:6) Like the words given to the prophet Habakkuk who could not read God’s heart (Habakkuk 2:14), we must set our sights and goals in life on God with the promise that the world will be filled with the recognition of God’s glory. . God has given the church the authority to overcome the powers of Hades. In order to become a church that fulfills God's will in this age through that authority, I hope that we can all examine our prayers and focus on God's interests.
When man works, man works. But when man prays, God works