CT072 - Our Father, Your Kingdom

Yesterday, Jesus finished telling us how not to pray. Today, he finally shows us how. In Matthew 6:9–10, he hands us the prayer the whole world has come to know — and we're taking just its first half, the part that's all about God before it's ever about us.

Listen to where it starts: "Our Father in heaven." That's intimacy and majesty in a single breath — close enough to call him Father, high enough to trust him with everything. And then come three requests, and here's the surprising part: not one of them is for us. That his name be honored as holy. That his kingdom come. That his will be done, right here, the way it's already done in heaven.

We'll take each one slowly — his honor, his reign, his purpose — and sit a while with "your will be done," because that's a prayer we help answer by obeying. It's the place where God moves toward us, and our response back to him meets. The heart of it is simple: Jesus teaches us to pray for God's glory before our groceries, because worship has a way of putting our wants back in order.