Now if you have your Bibles if you'll take those and turn if you will please to

Matthew chapter six I'm only going to read one brief verse when I got the

The invitation to come and speak and then the theme, one prayer, that each of the speakers in this series is to relate to that theme, one prayer, that we should choose one prayer that we want to teach on.

That was very challenging. In the first place, as a guest speaker,

you seldom are required to write a new sermon.

As a traveling minister, you just need three good sermons in a fast car.

But I really was motivated by the series title and so when you come to a church like

gateway with an international audience by multimedia and all that you you want to you want to preach a big sermon.

You know, you want to lower the guns to deck level and load with grape shot, you know.

But I don't have that today.

This is a simple little pastoral message on a certain prayer,

on one prayer. And this weekend here at Gateway is the first time I've ever preached it.

I want to preach today on the

prayer of the broken and I believe that it is in Matthew chapter 6 and verse 10.

We've already sung it as Tim let us but let me read it to you yet

again. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Now

please just make a note of the preposition because it often gets

read in a sloppy way. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth, not on earth, not on the earth, thy will be done in earth as

it is in heaven.

Now let's pray.

Heavenly Father in the next few moments, I pray that you will sweep aside every barrier

to divine communication, every carefully constructed mechanism of self-defense that we have hurled up against the penetrating power of

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