"Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven."
Matthew 6:10. NKJV
Bill Johnson, a very popular American preacher/teacher, prophet and author, says, 'We need to pray God's world into this world.'
You see, there are two worlds - Heaven being one and then Earth. Therefore, as believers of the Lord Jesus, we need to ensure that we're on Christian business, and we do that by living for Jesus in such a way that we bring Heavenly things into play over Earthly things. This is what our text for today is saying.
This is why many people who met Jesus and spoke with Him, didn't fully comprehend what He was saying. Instead of trying to understand, they accused Him of being a false teacher. Jesus had brought the Kingdom of Heaven to the Earth and therefore, God had become flesh as the Son of God: 'The Word (Jesus) became flesh and dwelt among us.' (John 1:14). Again in John 1:11, we read, 'He came to His own and His own did not receive Him.' Jesus the Light, shone in the darkness of the earth and the earth didn't comprehend Him.
So if they found it difficult to accept Jesus, you can bet the same thing will happen to you. If they thought Jesus was weird they'll feel the same way about you. But who cares, they've felt that way about me for years. Let's just get on with it.
With the awareness that we're living in two worlds, we get a deeper understanding. We live on the earth but our citizenship is in Heaven. (Philippians 3:20). We're aliens to this world, so no wonder we don't belong here; no wonder people are embarrassed by our faith and become uppity if we mention Jesus. But as long as we know what world we belong to, we need to use the tools that will help us to do the job.
2 Corinthians 5:7 say, 'We walk by faith, not by sight.' We're not moved by what we see or hear that is contrary to God's Word. We see things through God's eyes. 2 Corinthians 4:18 says, 'While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary'. In other words, the things we see are subject to change as we see them through the eyes of faith.
We need to accept that we're different. We may have been born on this earth but when we accepted Jesus, we emigrated to the Heavenly world. We are Kingdom people and as such, we need to pray God's world into this temporary world. We need to pray Heavenly things not earthly; bringing Heavenly things into play in this hostile, earthly world.
This is the only way things will change.
Copyriight 2020 Grahame Howard
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