The will of God is always obeyed by angels and by glorified believers in heaven.

There's no sin in heaven. There's no conflict between the will of the creatures who are gathered around

the presence of God in heaven and his holy will.

Because all who are in heaven have been brought into full conformity to the law of God. Jesus tells us to pray that God's will would be done on earth as it is in heaven.

But isn't the will of God always

accomplished? Can there be something that he wills that can be hindered by us or

some other means? I'm Nathan W Bingham and thanks for joining us for this Wednesday

edition of Renewing Your Mind. This week you're hearing select messages from

R.C. Sproll's series, The Lord's Prayer.

And I want to remind you to request access to the entire series

and receive his book The Prayer of the Lord

by making a donation of any amount in support of this daily outreach at renewing your mind.org.

So why does Jesus teach us to pray that the will of God be done,

and is it a sign of doubt, unbelief

to include in your prayer the qualifier,

if it be your will?

Here's Dr Sprawl on this next section of the Lord's Prayer.

We're looking at the Lord's Prayer and we're concerned about the petitions that Jesus gave to the Church as a model that we are to follow in framing the petitions of our own

prayer.

We remember that the first petition that Jesus gave was that we should pray like this, Hallow would be thy name.

The priority of prayer for Jesus was first and foremost

that the name of God be regarded as holy. The second petition in which Jesus said that we should

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