Today I was reading about "The Lord's Prayer". Actually I have been reading a short essay on it for several days in which the author breaks it down into phrases but todays phrase really stuck out to me.
"Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
-Matthew 6:10
The author says that in naming this "The Lord's Prayer" it sounds misleading. Really it is Jesus' model prayer or "The Disciples Prayer". Jesus was teaching his followers how to pray. Pretty interesting that Jesus said the same prayers when he was alone with his Father in the garden. "Thy will be done."
The author says that if we are praying this prayer with sincerity there are "three pressing possibilities: what we want, what others want for us, and what God wants of us. To pray "your will be done" is to take the kingdom of God as Jesus revealed it as our charter and to make our decisions based on that.
When we pray this prayer, God will guide us in what to do and then he will give us the courage to do it. "When we surrender our wills to the Lord, accept his love and forgiveness through the cross, and invite Him to live in us, we begin life all over. Christ guides us in each decision and shapes our character into His image."
Am I really "gutsy" enough to live out this prayer? God has proven himself faithful beginning the day he surrendered his life on the cross for my benefit. But what about today, July 24, 2014? Can I be bold enough to say, I let go... I surrender all of this day to your ways and I will trust you will give me the courage to do what you have called me to do? I know that I don't want to go somewhere/anywhere where God is not in the midst of each decision or each step that I take.
all quotes are from "God's Best for my Life" by Ogilvie
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