First Missionary Baptist Church
Wednesday Night Bible Study
August 13th, 2025

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                                                                                                                                   Jeremie Turner, Sr. – Pastor

​​What is this Thing Called Prayer?

Praying Prayers that God Answers, pt. 2

Matthew 6:10

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Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

 

Activity: Go back to the beginning of time and create the perfect world, as God would have it. If we could press reset, how would the world as we now know it, look diAerently? What would it look like? What would it be free, or absent of? Use powerful imagery such as in Isaiah 11:6-8 and Revelation 21:4. Also, list for us three things that have disturbed you lately with our world that is the antithesis of His kingdom.

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The Perfect World, as God would have it:

1. ___________________________________________________________________

2. ___________________________________________________________________

3. ___________________________________________________________________

4. ___________________________________________________________________

5. ___________________________________________________________________

 

Disturbing Things:

1. ___________________________________________________________________

2. ___________________________________________________________________

3. ___________________________________________________________________

 

Remember, that out of the seven petitions in this prayer, the first three concern the name, kingdom, and will of God. This verse houses two petitions in one. The Lord must occupy the highest place in our prayers, and indeed in our whole lives. Often in our prayer requests we are selfish. We have a tendency to be _____-___________ rather than _____-_________ in our prayer requests. It takes our eyes oA of ourselves and the earth, and points them toward heaven, anticipating the return of Christ. We must be ____________ _________________, for we are not physical beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a physical experience. For us, we know that there is more beyond this earthly living. However, we cannot have that until His kingdom comes. For there will come a time when God will make all things right.

 

This portion of the prayer covers four things, as laid out by Dake’s:

1. ________________: Thy kingdom come

2. ______________________: Thy will be done

3. ___________________: In earth

4. _____________________: As it is in heaven

 

This verse deals with: The ________________ of God + The ___________ of Christ This prayer is two-folded:

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1. His full manifestation and visible glory (_____________________)

2. His kingdom to be ushered in through His return (____________________)

 

So, why do I want His kingdom to come?

1. It will be a time of _________________________________ – Isaiah 32:17-18

2. It will be a time of ______________ – Jeremiah 31:13

3. It will be a time of __________________________________ – Revelation 21:4

4. It will be a time of __________________ of the curse – Isaiah 11:6-9

 

Jesus teaches us in this prayer that we are to be prayerful and mindful of the coming kingdom and the second advent of Christ. In the first advent, Christ introduced us to the Kingdom, but it will not be fully culminated until He comes again.

 

God desired that His “visible” Kingdom be seen on this earth ever since the creation of man, to whom He gave dominion – Genesis 1:26-28. That dominion, however, was lost by the “Fall.” God, in the Old Testament, reigned through a ___________________, but man wanted to go their own way (1 Samuel 8:1-9). But even before they put a king in place, man went his own way, and as a result all kinds of trouble entered into the picture (Genesis 3:14-19). Christ, then, became the answer to the problems (Genesis 3:15, 1 Corinthians 15:45 47, Galatians 4:4, Ephesians 1:4-10) of the world we faced. Now that He has come and returned to the Father, we must do our part until He comes again.

 

One might rightly wonder why God wants us to pray that His will would be done, as if He were not able to accomplish it Himself. Not so! God is more than able to do His will without our prayer or cooperation; yet He ____________ the participation of our _______________, our _________, and our _____________ in seeing His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Therefore, it is more than just our prayers that help His will to come to pass.

 

Note: His kingdom WILL come, He just allows us to be part of the prayer as to when it will be.

 

This prayer is that God would make His kingdom more tangible and visible in our world. It is a prayer that His rule would be asserted ever more concretely in the places where sickness and evil still seem to have the upper hand.

 

His will, then must be done in the world and in our lives. We should pray that He _______________ us to do what is pleasing to Him, and that He would give us the ____________ that is necessary to do what is right. It is His will – not ____ will, or the will of the ____________, or the will of the __________, or the will of the _____________.

 

We should pray that earth is to be made more like heaven. With all that is going on in our world, we should be more than happy to pray that His will would be done on earth as it is done in heaven. Are we praying this, or are we so selfishly focused on ourselves that we cannot focus on His will in our prayers? This prayer, then, requires us to be ________________. “Thy kingdom come” refers to God’s spiritual reign. Oh, what a time it will be when God makes all things right. His kingdom will be complete when all evil is destroyed and God establishes a new heaven and a new earth, as shown in Revelation 21:1. We can pray that God will rule now in this ________________ and that He will overturn the ______________________ and ______ ____________________ that bring ______________ and _________________ today. The

 

Message Bible says, “Set the world right; Do what’s best – as above, so below.”

 

When we pray this portion of the prayer, we are requesting that God will accomplish His perfect purpose in this world, as in the next. God does this through His willing followers. Thus, by praying this, we are accepting our roles as being _________-____________ with God to bring this to pass. When we pray this part of the prayer, we are offering ourselves as God’s available servants, asking Him to guide us, lead us, and give us the means to accomplish His purposes.

 

The desire for His kingdom – Your kingdom come – is based on the assurance that God will fulfill all His covenant promises to His people. Prayer is to include the request that His will be accomplished today on earth as it is being accomplished in heaven – fully and willingly. This emphasizes the idea that prayer is to bring about the ______________ of the Believer’s will to God’s will. To submit our will to His will, we acknowledge that God ___________ what is best. Praying that it be “done on earth as it is in heaven,” is simply as it sounds – to pray that these conditions might exist on earth as they do in heaven. It is to pray that we might have a taste of heaven on earth. But it is more than just on a grand, world scale, it is also the prayer that God would rule in our _______.

 

By praying this verse, we recognize two things as it relates to the rule of God:

1. The ________________ man – Thy kingdom come – We are recognizing that man is not created as a robot, and has a will of his own. But by praying that God’s kingdom would come, we are asking for God to rule man. We have seen how we mess things up when we do it ourselves.

2. The _______________ of man – Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven – This second part of this verse prays that man will submit to God’s rule and that this submission will ________ us ______________________ so that His will can be done as it is in heaven.

 

To look forward to God’s coming Kingdom was not for them to pray that they would be freed from Rome (remember: that would have been a selfish prayer). Rather, it was so that they would look forward to God’s coming Kingdom by praying that more and more people would enter it. Additionally, this prayer reaffirms the belief that one day all evil will be ______________ and that His glory would be _______________ to all nations.  _______________________________________________________________________

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