Nancy DeMoss Wogglemouth reminds us something important about prayer. We're not praying to a

stranger. We're not handing over the reins of our life to someone who doesn't know us, but when you're

praying to your father who knows and loves you and you have a relationship with him, a father who cares for

his children, who loves us, and who can be trusted, that helps us to say to that father, Lord, your will be done.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, August 19, 2016.

Thank you. We've been in a series called The Lord's Prayer. Earlier in the series, Nancy explained the first words of the Lord's Prayer, Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be your name.

That phrase is an important step in getting to a more

difficult phrase to pray and believe. She'll tell you what that phrase is today.

We come today to the next petition in the Lord's Prayer, which I think may be the hardest

four-word prayer to say and mean it. Because as we pray, your will be done

on earth as it is in heaven, there rises up in some of our hearts that fear that says,

what might happen? If I really prayed and meant it,

thy will be done. On the other hand, it's a prayer or part of this prayer that is easy to pray

glibly without thinking about it and without really meaning it, as I'm afraid millions of people do

and all of us have done at times.

How often do we just pray through the words, breathe through the words of the Lord's prayer?

Some of you, perhaps in your church, pray this prayer every week.

Somebody was telling me today they pray this prayer as a family at night.

I think that's a good thing if you're praying it, thinking about it. But how often do we just

pray through these words, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven? And did we think

about it? And did we mean what we were saying? When we pray, thy will be done, it implies that we're

asking God to overrule our will if it's not the same as his. And that's tough.

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