Would Jesus instruct us to pray for something that the Father did not plan to give us? He did say, ““Ask and it will be given to you…” (Matthew 7:7) and “If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:10-11)
When we pray our Lord’s Prayer, we ask that God’s will be done “on earth as it is in heaven”. Reflecting on this line of the Our Father has stirred this aching and longing in my heart to see God’s will done on “earth as it is in heaven”.
Imagine all persons knowing, loving, and serving our God and living in union with Christ. Imagine the fulfillment of Jeremiah 31:33-34:
“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
If imagining God’s will done on earth as it is in heaven inflames your heart with longing then please join me in praying for the grace to do God’s will. May our lives become beacons in the darkness and heralds of the day when His will is done on earth as it is in heaven.
Thy Will Be Done
Loving and Just God, to do Your will is my delight. Send Your Holy Spirit to purify my heart so my prayers, my desires, and my actions may all be in accord with Your most holy and perfect will. With Jesus, I want to be able to say, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” (John 4:34) May Thy will be done in and through me as it is in and through Jesus. Amen.
Our Father
“For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the Lord, "and will bring you back from captivity.” Jeremiah 29:11-13
Here I am Lord. I come to do Your will. Loving and Just God, may Your holy and perfect will be done in and through me.
Our Father
Mark 3:33-35 “Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked. Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother."
Here I am Lord. I come to do Your will. Loving and Just God, may Your holy and perfect will be done in and through me.
Our Father
“For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.” John 6:38-40
Here I am Lord. I come to do Your will. Loving and Just God, may Your holy and perfect will be done in and through me.
Our Father
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Romans 12:2
Here I am Lord. I come to do Your will. Loving and Just God, may Your holy and perfect will be done in and through me.
Our Father
“Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.” Hebrews 13:20-21
Here I am Lord. I come to do Your will. Loving and Just God, may Your holy and perfect will be done in and through me.
Our Father
“So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.” Hebrews 10:35-36
Here I am Lord. I come to do Your will. Loving and Just God, may Your holy and perfect will be done in and through me.
Our Father
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and insight he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.“ Ephesians 3:1-10
Closing Prayer: Loving and Just God, may Your holy and perfect will be done on earth as it is in heaven for the praise of Your glory and the redemption of Your people through Christ, Your beloved Son and our Lord. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit now and ever and forever. Amen.
Thank you so much for this prayer!