Build your kingdom. That's the heart of our petition. We're not praying just about the success of our enterprise.

We're not praying just about our church or our state. We're thinking about things on a national level and praying for the leadership of the nation and so forth.

But that's not the sum of our prayers. In all of that, the bottom line is, Lord, just let your kingdom come.

Welcome to Grace to you with the Bible teaching of John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

It's been said, a great man is someone who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. Well, that principle applies to what you pray for.

You could say a great man or woman of prayer is someone who knows how to discern which issues

are the most critical ones to bring to the Lord. To do that, you need to know

what God cares about most and what he says should be at the top of your prayer list. Today, John

MacArthur explains how you can pray with the same passion and priorities as your Heavenly Father.

The title of John's current study, Elements of True Prayer. And with

a lesson now, here's John MacArthur. Prayer is primarily worship. It is Godward. It is not to get for me.

It is to allow God to be glorified. I have to see that in my prayers. My prayers are not primarily

for what I can gain, but for the glory of God.

First of all, God's paternity, that is that God is Father, our Father, who art in heaven.

This is the basis, by the way, of our boldness in prayer.

We go to God because he is not our king only, he is not our

monarch only, he is not our judge only, he is not our creator only, but he is also our father.

And that beautiful expression gives us the sense of access and the boldness to come intimately

into his presence as a son or a daughter would come

to the presence of their own father.

Let's go to the second thought in this prayer.

God's priority.

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