Your Kingdom Come!

I have been encouraged to pray some big prayers lately! Some of that encouragement has come from the outstanding prayer times we have been having as a church lately. For a year or two now, we have been meeting at 6:30am Friday mornings for an hour of prayer, (all welcome!) and something has happened as we’ve come into this new year; we’ve stepped up a gear! We’ve been enjoying God’s presence in a quite remarkable way and have felt provoked to pray big prayers.

This morning Marcus preached very simply on the subject of healing, making the point that Jesus healed people – A LOT! And then we prayed some big audacious prayers for people to be healed (you can download Marcus’ preaching online).

Meanwhile I have been studying the Book of Revelation quite a lot recently as I prepare to teach on the subject to the Leadership Training group, and that has also encouraged me to pray big prayers, because there we get to see how things really are; how Jesus has triumphed and what his great victory through his death and resurrection has achieved. Nothing will ever be the same again! Jesus has changed the shape of history forever! He has redeemed the lives of all who put their trust in him, given us an eternal hope & future, defeated death and cast down every demonic force in the universe. And he has started to reign – now!
So when we pray “Your Kingdom come!” as Jesus taught us to do, it’s not just a wistful longing for paradise, it’s a bold prayer that the reign of King Jesus will break out here and now in the present, causing lives, homes, families and communities to be wonderfully transformed, sicknesses healed, people set free from addictions and fears, because that’s what Jesus does – that’s what his victory has accomplished!

Your Kingdome come! Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven!

Have a great week!

Goff