Offering Prayers of Faith & Absolute Confidence to God, Our Father (2.7.15)

Imagine for a moment that you are in the stands cheering on your favorite sports team. In the last minutes of the game, your team has gained a slight advantage and it looks like they are going to win. You are on your feet, cheering and shouting for them to “go.” You are challenging them to hold on, to be strong, and to do what they have to do to win. Your encouraging shouts are not pious wishes or hopeful pleas. They are urgent challenges to try and make it happen! They are, to put it grammatically, passive imperatives. When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, our prayers should be something like those urgent challenges. We are saying with a sense of great insistence, “Father, hallow be Your Name; advance Your Kingdom; do Your Will on earth. Make it happen, Lord!” And He will.

The Father loves to hear our prayers for His Glory, His Kingdom, and His Will. And He delights to answer such prayers. Our Father GOD has the ability to do what we ask. There is no way that the almighty sovereign GOD of the universe will ever let history come to an end without glorifying His Name, establishing His glorious Kingdom and accomplishing His Will fully and completely. In fact He is already doing these things, and the day will come when they will all be done on earth, as perfectly as they are done in Heaven. So pray your prayers in faith, and pray them with absolute confidence. You are contributing to the realization of His purposes! That’s an exciting way to pray.

Almighty Sovereign GOD, the hour is urgent, and the need is great! I plead with You to hallow Your Name, advance Your Kingdom and do Your Will on this earth! To establish Your glorious Kingdom as You move in power! Do it, Lord! With a voice of confidence, I ask You to rule and to reign! The enemy’s defeat is sure, because You have already spoken His future!