A Most Dangerous Prayer
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
— Matthew 6:10
Amongst the most dangerous activities in which we can engage, prayer probably wouldn’t rank very highly—somewhere just below sitting in one of those $1 massage chairs you see at the mall. What is it, if not just kneeling or bowing our head and saying some words?
But if you really understand prayer—especially how Jesus prayed and taught us to pray—then you’ll realize it can be the equivalent of spiritual skydiving! Prayer is warfare. Prayer should bring sweat and stretch our spiritual muscles.
If this sounds foreign and strange, it could be because we think of prayer too lightly and because we don’t understand the point, which is praying the will of God. This is radical, earth-shattering, momentous stuff because it confronts us with the humbling reality that we are needy and that we live in a world that must come under God’s total authority
Praying like this reorients our hearts from self-willed and near-sighted living into a world of abundance and adventure, living in the will of God and seeing amazing things come to pass by His glorious power.
Who’s ready to pray??
SDG