Your Kingdom Come: Exploring the Meaning of this Biblical Phrase

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Prayer is an important part of our daily lives. In praying regularly we grow closer to God for we are communicating with God. In prayer we may be asking him for help or thanking and praising him for His blessings but we are speaking with the Lord and He sincerly wants to hear and answer the prayers of His people. The second petition in the Lord’s prayer is your kingdom come. This petition is mentioned in Luke 11 when Jesus is teaching his disciples to pray and in Matthew 6:10 in Jesus’ sermon on the mount where the subject was the kingdom of heaven.

In Luke 11 the disciples are not only told what they should pray but also how they must pray this. A person who prays on the streets to receive praise from men, would not sincerely mean what they pray. They pray out in the open to give others the impression of their piety but they do not fool God.Jesus told his disciples that they should not pray on the streets giving men the impression of their piety but that they should pray in secret, for prayer is a personal matter and only then will they be putting God in the foreground of their prayer.

Jesus teaches His disciples that prayer is not a show but genuinely addressing God, it is creates a relationship between God and man so when we pray the appreciation of this relationship should be existent. When you pray ‘your kingdom come’ you are praying for God’s kingdom of grace and for faith in the gospel, which inturn means a relationship with the Lord.

To pray earnestly means to actually mean what you say when you pray to God, it means you pray from the depth of your heart, sincerely meaning every word you say. Therefore when you pray ‘your kingdom come’ you ask that God may rule over you and include you in the inhabitants of His ...

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The ten commandments were given to Moses in the Old Testament and these ten commandments are still applicable today. They were given to the people of Israel as a guideline by which they should live their lives. God ordered them and also still expects us to obey each and every one of His commands.

In Matthew 22:36-40 we can read of how Jesus replies when he is asked what the greatest commandment in the law is. He says, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment and the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.” From this we know that prayer is also required as a gift of thankfulness to the Lord. In prayer we show our love to the Lord and therefore are obeying this commandment.

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