Monday, October 6, 2025
Your Kingdom Come… Matthew 6:10a
We are currently in a series on The Lord’s Prayer, titled “Pray Like This.” The Lord’s prayer is a model Jesus gave us to help us pray in the right way – a way that will help us live and look more and more like him every day. Our key truth for this series is, “To pray like Jesus prayed is to see like Jesus saw, trust like Jesus trusted, and live like Jesus lived.”
As we have said, every line of the Lord’s Prayer teaches us something. “Your Kingdom Come,” teaches us that as followers of Jesus we should be praying for his Kingdom to come right now and that we bring the Kingdom of God to all those around us through our lives. The Kingdom of God is the already, but not yet, reign or rule of God over all of life. God’s Kingdom is eternal and is past, present, and future.
Jesus is the King – Every kingdom must have a ruler, and God has declared Jesus as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He is over all kings and rulers, powers, dominions, principalities, or governments. He alone will reign supreme as King and Lord of all the earth.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For everything was created by him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and by him all things hold together. 1:15-17
Jesus is supreme over all creation. Everything is held together by him. He is the king of God’s Kingdom and the king of our hearts, as we were created to know him.
While he was on earth Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and we are to keep proclaiming the Kingdom of God until he fulfills the Kingdom on earth with his return.
The Kingdom of God has come because Jesus has come. God’s presence coming down from heaven to earth through Jesus is his Kingdom come.
The Kingdom of God will come when Jesus returns, and the Kingdom of God will be fulfilled. He will return to those who belong to him.
What does the Kingdom of God look like, and how does it inform how we should pray?
The kingdom of God looks like you and me living our lives in such a way that everyone around us knows that the King is in the house – Jesus is in our hearts. If we have Jesus in our hearts, we will live our lives in a different way. We will reflect his glory with our whole lives – in the things we do and say and the way we treat others. Pastor Jim has said that as followers we are to learn to live and love like Jesus and that is exactly what the Kingdom of God looks like – his followers living like he lived and loving others the way he loves them.
As followers of Jesus, we should be praying for the Kingdom of God. We should be praying for the Kingdom of God at work today in the world. We should pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ serving all over the world so that everyone can know the Gospel. We should pray for our own service in the Kingdom of God – that our lives will be a testimony to those around us, and that we will have eyes to see those around us who need the Gospel and always be ready to show them the Kingdom of God and share the Good News. Your kingdom come is the desire of Jesus’ followers to see God’s Kingdom broaden and become known throughout the world in the here and now. That happens with you and me. That happens in our everyday lives – the way we live and love others. That happens with the body of Christ working with the Kingdom here on earth.
Praying “Your Kingdom come,” means asking the heavenly Father to help us in our own lives to be faithful, obedient, authentic, and effective followers.
Have you acknowledged him as your King, repented, and followed him?
If so, are you being the Kingdom of God in your life to those around you?
