God's Right To Rule!
"Your kingdom come. Your will be
done on earth as it is in heaven."
Matthew 6: 10
Jesus taught His disciples to pray that God’s Kingdom
would come and would be realized “on earth as it is in
heaven.” “Kingdom” can be understood in two different
ways in Scripture.
First, a kingdom can represent a geographical domain
such as “the kingdom of Judah” (2 Chronicles 11:17).
Christ’s Millennial Kingdom will soon cover the entire
earth and will
therefore be a physical Kingdom.
Second, kingdom refers to the right to rule rather than a place to
rule. Psalm 22:28
says “The kingdom is the Lord’s, and He rules
over the nations.” Jesus told a parable about a noble who traveled
to a distant country to receive a kingdom for
himself meaning he
was given the right to rule over an area by a higher authority
(Luke 19:12).
When Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the
Kingdom of God would come, He said, “The kingdom
of God is within or among you” (Luke 17:20-21).
Pray for God’s physical Kingdom to be
established
on earth as it is in heaven. But until that happens,
pray for His right to rule to be established in your
heart.
Before we can pray, “Lord, Thy kingdom come,”
we must be willing to pray, “My Kingdom
go.”
Alan Redpath
