Prayer, God's Will, and His Kingdom!

Prayer, God's will and His Kingdom!

Everybody prays. Yet, the disciples of Jesus still asked Him to teach them to pray. That means prayer is a subject to be learned. The effectiveness of prayer is dependent on the knowledge and understanding of the subject of prayer and the best teacher of such would be no one else but our chief intercessor and advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

The prayer scene today is quite scary. Checking through the pool of information and knowledge upon which prayer rolls today would reveal more of superstitions, ethnic and cultural traditions and myths much more than what Christ taught about prayer and I doubt if we can get holistic results from such aberrations.

One primary focus of prayer that Jesus taught is joining hands with God to establish His will on the earth.

The crucial point in the Lord's prayer is the prayer for the coming of God's kingdom through His will being done on the earth as it is in heaven. The other points aren't in variance with this, rather, they are mere elaboration of the main issue.

Once prayer shifts from seeking what God desires, it starts to fail the test of what Jesus Christ, our Lord taught!

Every prayer point must obey the law of God's will, desires and pleasure for it to be in line with what Jesus taught about prayer.

To expect God to release His power and authority to do what is not in consonance with His will is to sow seeds into disappointment! Such prayers only look answered through happenstance! Most times they bring nothing but disappointment!

Another important thing that we must learn from the Lord's prayer and the will of God is the need to pray before God's will is done here on earth. That's contrary to what majority believes; the majority erroneously believes that the world is in God's will by default. The Lord's prayer shows rather that outside of the original creations, God hardly does anything without someone asking Him to do so on earth even if that's in His will, at least since the days of John the Baptist, according to our Lord, Jesus Christ...Luke 16:16

If everything happening is God's will, there won't be sin! Because everything man does, good or bad would have been His responsibility!

If everything happening is God's will, then we won't need to ask Him again to do His will on earth as it is in heaven.

If everything happening is God's will without us having to pray for God's will, then His kingdom has come already and we won't need to wait for it, preach it or do anything about it...

But now we have to pray and invite His to send His kingdom where His will would ordinarily be done as it is in heaven.

Today, the kingdom of God on earth only dwell within the systems where the will of God is done. And man would have to permit that through prayer, faith, obedience and yielding to the Spirit of God.

Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. We cannot trust our independent desires that bother on selfishness, greed, inordinate affection, lusts, carnality, hatred and such earthly things to bring forth the Kingdom of God.

When such things power our prayers, we cannot expect the power of God to pay for that. The Kingdom of God is the primary concern of the power of God. The essence of God's power is to establish God's will on the earth.

The pursuit of God's kingdom on the earth must inform and trigger our desires for ourselves and for the people, places, periods and events around us and such should feed our prayer mentality! Such desires cannot be outside of God's will.

When we discover the will of God and take that to the place of prayer, we come on same page with God. We become partners with God instead of being at variance with Him. Our faith and confidence reach their heights and doubt becomes an impossibility. 1John 5:14&15 

When we are sure that what we want is exactly what God wants for the same purposes for which God wants such, we only need to make the request and we can be sure we have the answer.

Then we won't have to try any hard to convince God to do what we are requesting. We won't need to cajole God to answer the prayers, we won't need to try to armtwist God to do anything.

But if we aren't content with what God desires for us and we want more or something else, we are already out of His budget and plans and we'll need to do all sorts to convince Him...and God isn't obliged to answer such prayers even if self abasement is done to the most extreme extent!

God cannot be bribed to raise another kingdom aside His own...if our will is what God does, then it's no more His kingdom but ours. If it is the devil's will that's done then it's no more His kingdom but that of Satan.

God's kingdom is His focus and the kingdom comes to us when we pray in line and actively do what pleases Him...

We only need to renew our minds with God's word and so make His will our own will, and His desires ours and make the kingdom of God our main focus of search so that whenever we go to the place of prayer, we can be sure of returning with the demonstrations of the power of God to satisfy our desires!

Good Morning!
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