When Jesus said when you pray pray like this, thy kingdom come, he was giving to us

participation in his own mission, in his own agenda, that the reign of God would be restored to this planet

in a way that would mirror and reflect the way God's

kingly reign exists in heaven to this day.

Throughout the New Testament, we learn many things about Jesus,

that he is our good shepherd,

and that he cares for his sheep,

that we have a great high priest who

prays and intercedes for his people,

but he is also a king, the king and the king of kings.

You're listening to renewing her mind as we spend a week considering the how and why of prayer as R.C. Sproll walks through portions

of what is commonly called the Lord's Prayer. Because Jesus is king, he has a kingdom, and you and I are taught to pray for this kingdom's coming,

and that God's will would be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Well, after laying some groundwork yesterday, today we jump ahead in the Lord's prayer to this

section on the Kingdom of God.

Here's Dr Sprawl.

In the Old Testament, we have a record of an event that took place with the people of

Israel in which a very important person was missing from an assembly.

And the scriptures tell us that he was hidden among certain equipment.

Let me read this narrative to you briefly as we find it in the first book of Samuel

in the 10th chapter, beginning in verse 23.

So they ran and they brought him from there.

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