How to Pray Using the Lord’s Prayer – Part 3

When Jesus taught the Lord’s Prayer to the disciples, he did not intend for them to merely recite the prayer. He was teaching them a memorization technique called index sentencing. It is to be used as an outline for prayer.

Yesterday, I taught on the first verse of the Lord’s Prayer. You may wish to check out Part 1 and 2 of this series. Now I would like to look at the second verse of the Lord’s Prayer, ” Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” Matt 6:10 (KJV). This verse represents our intercessory prayer for God’s kingdom advancement. We must pray that God’s will be done on earth as it is done in heaven. God has a plan and we are either in on His plan or we are doing our own plan. God reveals His will for the earth in the…