Thine is the Kingdom
Israel’s great King David recognized God’s rightful reign as the ultimate king over all creation…
“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.”
1 Chronicles 29:11
“Before we can pray, “Lord, Thy Kingdom come,” we must be willing to pray, “My Kingdom go.”
Alan Redpath
“We are seeing the necessary balance of two purposes of petitionary prayer—to put the world right (‘thy kingdom come’) and to align our hearts with God (‘thy will be done’).”
Tim Keller, Prayer
“Our appetite for the living God has been whetted with a bit of bread and a sip of wine and we want more. And, by God’s grace, we shall have more. We shall feast at that great banquet open to all ages, nations, and peoples. Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again.”
William H. Willimon & Stanley Hauerwas, Lord, Teach Us: The Lord’s Prayer & the Christian Life
“When Jesus spoke of the kingdom of God he was not referring to the general sovereignty of God over nature and history, but to that specific rule over his own people which he himself had inaugurated, and which begins in anybody’s life when he humbles himself, repents, believes, submits and is born again.”
John Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount
