Thy Will be Done...

Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven."

When Peter declared who Jesus was, He told Peter, "Whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you loose on the earth shall be loosed in heaven." Matthew 16:19. He was teaching the disciples about forgiveness and prayer, in Matthew 18:18 and repeated this same phrase adding: "Again, I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on the earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there am I in the midst of them."

The Apostle John told us, "And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us; and if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him." I John 5:14-15 So, how we know what to pray? Well, sometimes we don't. The Apostle Paul explained, "Likewise the Spirit helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit makes intercessions for us with groanings which cannot be understood. And He that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God." Romans 8:26-27 The Father knows what we have need of even before we ask. And sometimes, we just can't find the words to express it, so He comes by the Spirit and prays through us.

James, the Lord's brother, told us: "You lust (desire) and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not. You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, the you may consume it upon your lusts." James 4:2-3

Now, we established in the post, 'Our Father' that God is a Spirit and lives in that heavenly realm. Everything that will ever be accomplished, has already been thought in the mind of God and according to Solomon, "There is nothing new under the sun." But we have a Divine mandate from God to reach up into that realm and bring it down to earth, through the Spirit. When we pray, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" we are prophesying the will of God. Whether we're praying for our city, nation, brothers and sisters in Christ, family, or for the peace of Jerusalem, if we are praying in the Spirit and not after our on will, nothing can stop that prayer and God will honor it.

May God help you to understand what the will of God is and do it.