Welcome back to the Ransom Heart Podcast with John Eldridge here in a multi-part

series on prayer, powerful prayer, effective prayer, maturing prayer, maturing in our understanding of how prayer works and why

it works and how does God use prayer in the world?

What's our role in the kingdom of God now? And I'm reading

excerpts from my book Moving Mountains praying with passion, confidence, and authority, and this week we are in

Chapter 5, which is entitled Bold Authority.

And I begin with some thoughts on the Lord's prayer.

Have you ever wondered why the Lord's prayer begins with us praying,

Your Kingdom Come? The man who knew best how to pray, is telling us to invoke his kingdom.

We are, after all, partners in this mission, and this is what he wants us to begin prayer

with.

The obvious implication is that his kingdom is not always come.

His will is not always done on earth as it is done in heaven.

Or what a ridiculous thing to tell us to pray.

Why would Jesus urge us to pray for something

that has no meaning?

He does not tell us to pray that the sun rises tomorrow.

We are never urged to pray that the sun will

rise again each day. God's will is going to be done every sunrise. You can rest on

that one, nothing to pray about there. But you are told to invoke his kingdom from heaven to earth.

Maybe he's referring to his second coming, you know, the return of Christ and his kingdom then. I think this is actually the vague

idea in most people's minds when they pray the Lord's prayer. But the next line

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