Therefore pray in this manner: Our Father in heaven, sanctified be Your name. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
(Matt 6:9-10)
When we pray for anyone that the Father’s Kingdom come to them, we are asking Father for the Holy Spirit to be poured out on them as on the Day of Pentecost; we’re asking for the Holy Spirit to invade their lives and bring the Reign of Christ Jesus into their hearts and minds and bodies, powerfully; for the outpouring of Grace, and we’re believing that the enemy’s kingdom be dispersed and it’s power destroyed in their lives. One Kingdom displacing another.
If not, what are we expecting to happen when we pray ‘Your Kingdom come’ ?
October 31, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Ian,
You have hit the nail on the head.
Luthers consise explanation of this prayer request is: