In Lessons 4 and 5 of Teach Us to Pray: Learning to pray from the Lord’s Prayer and teachings of Jesus, we see more Focus points of the Lord’s prayer based on the phrase, “Your Kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). A peek at these lessons reveals the following focus points:
Living the Kingdom
Lesson 4 is titled Focus on God and His Kingdom Priorities in Life, the subtitles of which read (with my bracketed notes):
- Defining the Kingdom of God [Just what is the Kingdom of God? What is it like?]
- The King of the Kingdom and His kids [Say who? What does the Kingdom of God have to do with me?]
Praying the Kingdom
Lesson 5, titled Focus on God and His Kingdom Priorities in Prayer, deals with topics like:
- Praying Your Kingdom come, Your will be done [Just what does that mean?]
- Seek the will of God in prayer [It really isn’t about us.]
- Taking the Kingdom, Fighting the good fight [What’s your purpose in life?]
Jesus’ statements about God’s Kingdom and his will begs these questions, and more, dealt with in these two lessons: What is the Kingdom of God? What does it look like? What are the values and characteristics of the Kingdom of God? In what ways does the Kingdom of God affect how we live and how we pray?
Where to find the answers to those questions? As in every lesson, we go to Scripture, of course. And at the end of each lesson, we have an opportunity to pray according to Jesus’ words.
Teach Us to Pray: Learning to pray from the Lord’s prayer and teachings of Jesus, a Bible study, soon to be offered on Zoom. Stay tuned for more information on that. In the meantime, I’ll keep blogging about each lesson.
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