“Father, let Your will come into being…NOW, in this present moment on earth, as it already is in the heavenlies.”
For those who have memorized The Lord’s Prayer, the couplet of “Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done” rolls easily off the tongue, along with the rest of this Bible prayer. We utter the words as our mind calls them up. What meaning they hold can range from shallow to growing comprehension.
By now, there should be some understanding making an impression in us that Jesus modeled a prayer posture of far deeper significance and urgency.
This kind of prayer is an invaluable currency exchanged for Heaven’s needed resources. The storehouses of God’s Kingdom from which we may obtain His sure supply are not filled just for our will. They are replete with the will of the Father that makes living and growing as a child of God in His Kingdom of Light, our very boast.1
When Jesus Prayed “Thy Will be done”
While Jesus prayed “Thy Will be done” to his Father in Heaven, it was a continuation of His cry for God’s Kingdom to come. Jesus coupled them together with considerable urgency as the bearer of the Kingdom. Imagine for a moment His carrying the true Kingdom within, while earthly kingdoms were exerting their wills.
When we consider that Jesus’ Teacher portion was fully engaged in this part of His prayer, it highlights even more His validation of truth. When He declared, “I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life”, He spoke in truth. He never once wavered in the truth of Who He is, but the fullness of his humanity depended upon the fullness of God’s Kingdom and the truth that flowed from His Father’s perfect will for His life. Not easy but, He finished it.2
As He committed His spirit into the hands of His Father, the Veil in the Temple was torn in two.3 The sword of the Spirit served the penetrating slice that severed sin from holiness, bondage from freedom, sickness and death from health and life, exploiters from innocent prey, and heavy loads from full access to God’s grace.
The purposes of God for our lives have never dissipated. “Thy Will be done” is both request and benediction.
Man’s kingdoms: Endless Efforts and Inability to Govern
Jesus and the disciples whom He taught how to pray lived in man’s kingdoms strikingly familiar to ours today. Though the disciples had difficulty at times with Jesus’ firehose of truth, they sensed His words were full of life. He told of the Father’s desire for fulfillment, not failure or impending failure, and His will for lasting good fruit.
In contrast, the will of man proves itself to be highly ineffective with its endless efforts and inability to govern – from homes and individuals, to institutions, churches, cities, states, nations, and global assembly of humanity.
In Jesus’ day, they and multitudes of souls around them were, like us, weary of pressure from evil forces and the strong will of man’s government. We see governments around the world engaged in endless efforts that never fully remedy bad situations, bring peace that isn’t broken, and provide necessities for humanity’s need. Resolutions and orders are passed. Regulation of human affairs ensues. Yet nearly all solutions hinge upon leader’s decisions drawn from the world’s wisdom and exerting their own wills. There are not enough fingers to plug the increasing holes in the ships of nations. It is becoming clearer why Jesus taught us to pray as He did.
The Weary Soul that Can No Longer Disregard What God Wants
There is a point of weary of soul that once reached, it can no longer disregard what God wants. While spiritual battles rage, some of which spill over into our natural lives, Jesus modeled the entrusting of His soul (his mind, his will, and his emotions) to His Father. Before He ever committed His spirit into His Father’s hands, He fought the spiritual battles that bombarded His human soul. Not the least of which was “Not my will, but Thy will.”
Because He prevailed in Himself for us, He became the Firstfruit of souls that allow the rule of Christ over their own will. These are the ones who come to know early the Kingdom’s authority, power, provision, and protection amid man’s kingdoms exerting their own wills. Godly concern for what God wants is worked in.
Surrounded as we are by the barrage pressing on every side, there is desire to increase the practice of the very things I am writing. Like Peter, my soul and perhaps yours cries out, “Where else would I go?! You have the words of life I so desperately need, NOW.” For me, to pen the reality of ‘the state of the union of man’s will’ (including my own) demands relief from the Lord Himself. Part of holy self-care is being washed in His peace.
He is faithful, and I am grateful. Feet fitted with the gospel of peace require a good and frequent fresh water soaking in the face of all that is factual and true in earthly ways. It is then that the mind of Christ reminds us,
This plan of Mine is not what you would work out, neither are My thoughts the same as yours! For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than yours, and My thoughts than yours. Isaiah 55:8-9 (Living Bible)
“Father, Your Will be done.”
The Warmth of God’s Will
Thelēma4 is the Greek word from which will comes. When I read Brother Ed’s definition of thelēma being a warm word, it felt like honey oozing into the weary crevices of my soul. It means desire, design, purpose.
Jesus did not live independent of His Father’s will. He, the redemptive fullness of the Father’s desire, design, and purpose shared an embraceable gift in His seven petitions. Reminding our Father’s will reflects His heart.
Decades ago, my husband and I came to see – and accept, painful as it was – that whatever we sowed would inevitably reap in kind. That’s how and why we first learned prayers of desperation. I wish we had this prayer teaching back then. It is more precious now, given that Holy Spirit taught us Himself as we yielded our wills, regardless of what was or wasn’t available to us. To continue to come into agreement with Him is priceless.
In today’s climate, it is not difficult to see generations, families, nations, and world overcome with its reaping. Even the earth is revolting with desperate cries, “Father, let Your will come into being!” It is longing hard, too.5
Which brings us to another Greek word that spurs us on in understanding when Jesus said, “Thy will be done.”
Father, Let Your Will come into being.
When Jesus said, “Thy will be done,” He used genethéto, a form of the Greek word ginomai. I love its meaning, which carries the idea of something coming into being more than the idea of something being done.
Ginomai’s primary meaning in the Greek is to come into existence; to be created. It is the same word used when God said, “Let there be light” in Genesis 1:3. God’s warm will awaits when the Spirit of God is hovering!
How many times have you and I been confronted with the seeming impossibility of doing the Father’s will when He has called us to perform a task? Task takes on many forms, as limitless as God is in His design of us.
Do not think that what God desires will not be met with pushback from the forces of the world, the flesh, and the devil. If you sense them arrayed against your ability to perform the will of God as He has asked of you, do not wonder, flounder, or give up. These very forces should, if we will but allow it, serve to only drive us closer in upon Heaven’s resources. The flow toward “pray without ceasing” becomes a necessary plea for God’s will.
What God desires comes to pass only out of the finished work of Christ, not humanity’s will or wishful thinking. To sincerely pray, “Father, let Your will come into being!” will find us moving toward the fulfilling of His call and purpose as He has willed in desire, design, and purpose for each of His children in His Kingdom.
in this present moment on earth, as it already is in the heavenlies
When Jesus lived on this earth, He demonstrated Heaven as the source for the performing of His Father’s will. John 5:19, in Jesus’ own words, leaves no ambiguity as to Christ’s Source, nor those of us who are in Christ.
19 “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself [of His own accord], unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever things the Father does, the Son [in His turn] also does in the same way. 30 “I can do nothing on my own initiative or authority. Just as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just (fair, righteous, unbiased), because I do not seek My own will, but only the will of Him who sent Me.” (AMP)
I believe there is a growing company of believers who have reached no other recourse than God’s will coming into being. They know the detriment and decline that comes from the strong will of man, beginning with their own. May such souls be stirred to call forth on the scene in their lives and own land, our Father’s will.
Psalm 16 – of David
1 Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge. 2 I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.” 3 I say of the holy people who are in the land, “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”
4 Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more. I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods or take up their names on my lips.
5 Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure. 6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. 7 I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. 8 I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, 10 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay. 11 You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. ▪ (NIV)
No one can fully know what the Lord has held in resource for those who love Him. Laying down our will to take on His warm will secures our lot – all of what He has given into our hands – and graces us with pleasant places.
~ Nancy
1 I Corinthians 1:31: As it says in the Scriptures, “If anyone is going to boast, let him boast only of what the Lord has done.”
2 John 19:30 3 Luke 23:45-46; Matthew 27:50-51 (52-53 share the further miracles at His death and Resurrection!)
4 The Greek word thelēma is used several times in the Bible; in biblical studies, it references God’s sovereignty. In religious studies, Thelema is a recognized religion or occult tradition by founder Aleister Crowley. It is dark and dangerous.
5 Romans 8:22-23
Recommended reading: Pattern of Seven: The Armor of God ~ Feet Fitted with the Gospel of Peace; Teacher Portion; God’s Wisdom in Lady Wisdom – The Voice of Understanding
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