“9 Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 ‘Your kingdom come.
Your will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread.
12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’”
We have been focusing on the Lord's Prayer this last week, and today we will be focusing on "Your Kingdom come".
“Your Kingdom come
Your expansion
Your promotion
Your magnitude
Your fame
Your Name”
I want to encourage you today to focus your time, energy, and focus on expanding God's kingdom. As I was meditating on this part of the Lord's prayer of His Kingdom come, I instantly began to recognize that I needed to make the focus on Him, His expansion and His promotion. I think so many times in our lives we do strive for our own expansion and promotion in this life - what benefits us. I think if we shifted our focus on what would expand God's vision for our life, our church, our family, our career, I think we would find ourselves doing things that benefits and serves those around us. The beauty in selfless service is that we also benefit from loving others; the love we give becomes reciprocated where God fills us up again.
Asking for God's Kingdom to come and flourish in our lives calls for us to live in a way that magnifies His fame and Name in our lives. There are plenty of days that I live for myself. I think simply asking God how could I bring a piece of heaven on earth here in this day would make me more sensitive to the needs around me. I encourage you today to allow His Kingdom to come in your life.
TAKE AWAY:
1) Allowing God's Kingdom to come and flourish in our lives is being willing to focus our time and energy on His expansion, promotion, magnitude, fame, and Name.
MEDITATION:
“30-33 “If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.
34 “Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.”
DAILY CHALLENGE:
1) Take time today to ask God how you could allow His Kingdom to come in your life.
2) What is something you can do to be more sensitive to the needs around you?