In a world torn apart by violence, here's Nancy DeMoss-Waglemouth with truth you can stand on.

God uses even the wrath of men to praise him, the scripture says.

God will demonstrate his kingdom and rule, and God will go to whatever lengths are necessary in this world and in my life.

To prove that, as Daniel says, heaven rules.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, August 15th, 2016.

Each day you wake up, you have a choice to make. Will you live for God's kingdom or try to build your own kingdom?

The Lord's Prayer will orient you as you make this individual decision, but it will also help you sort out and pray for the big issues facing our world. Nancy's continuing in a series called the Lord's Prayer.

Well, we're talking in this part of the series on the Lord's Prayer about a three-word petition,

the shortest petition in the Lord's Prayer, one of the shortest petitions in all of

God's word, but one of the most potent and powerful, thy kingdom come. Your kingdom come.

And we said in the last session that there are three aspects of God's kingdom, as we're talking

about what is God's kingdom. We explained two of those and want to look at the third today, but let's just

touch back on what the first two are. We first talked about the universal reign of God. He is the

king over all the earth. He's the king of those who recognize these is the king, and he's the king

of those who don't recognize that he is the king. We looked at Psalm 47,

and we saw the Lord is the great king over all the earth. He always has been. He is now. He always

will be. And the people who think they're in charge don't realize many times who really is

in charge. So there is that universal, eternal reign of God. And then we talked about the personal

reign of God. Jesus said the kingdom of God is here now. And he's talking about not a visible

kingdom, not a visible reign or rule, not overthrowing the Roman government as the disciples hoped that he would, but he's talking

about the reign of God in our hearts, in our individual lives as we say, yes, Lord, may your kingdom

come in my heart. And as we pray this prayer, I think the starting places with those first two

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