Your will be done

"After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Mt. 6:9-10.

Our Father which art in heaven: God's children first recognize that God is their Father in heaven, i.e. He is above and they are beneath.

They are not as Simonists who set themselves above and use God, His power and His Holy Spirit to do what suits them "Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit" Ac. 8:19. Jesus said to them, "You are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.” Jn. 8:23.

Hallowed be thy name: Second, in everything that we do, we do not seek our own glory, but the glory of Him who alone deserves the glory, honor and holiness forever and ever, amen! We read in the Book of Numbers (chapters 20 and 27) that Moses was not allowed to enter the Promised Land "because he did not sanctify the Lord in the eyes of the children of Israel.” What actually happened? - God told Moses to speak to the rock to ensure water comes thereof, but Moses double-hit the rock. Each single Word of God has an eternal meaning, wherefore no particular interpretation should be applied thereto, but men should only believe and let it be revealed and performed. Christ who is the rock had to be hit once (He. 9:28), not twice. But by impatience, by stress and under pressure from the people, Moses distorted the Word of God that Christ should be hit twice: he did not sanctify the Lord in the eyes of the people.

To sanctify the name of the Father, it is to show that His Words are seven times tried and found Truth: it is therefore, to keep the Word of God in its wording. If you move or change the terms (e.g. double-clicking instead of clicking), you do not sanctify Him as you thereby imply that, as the word of man, his word can also be subject to review. And, like Moses, anyone that does not sanctify the Father will not enter the Promised Land.

Thy kingdom come: Third, we, as God's children, feel the need to see Him ruling over us through His Word. Indeed, we know that when the Lord does not have dominion over us, we will be under the domination of other lords (Es. 26:13). This is why we express it all the time: Lord, do not leave us under the domination of other masters, but you alone have dominion over us, let your kingdom come and act on us. As for the "Simonists", they just want to have the magical power to amaze people and to give out that themselves are prominent. So they say: Give us also the power so that, on any man we are willing to lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost ... They want to have a Holy Ghost which complies with their will and pleasure. They are free from the Word of God: they are free to interpret and manipulate it just as they please.

These three provisions must be met in the heart, then one can say "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Every man must recognize that he has his will and God his, and the two should not be confused. God's will is his thought and is expressed through His Word. Even a prophet conveys the will of God only when God puts his oracles in his mouth. Otherwise, he expresses his personal opinions which bind himself alone.

Balaam was a prophet (Nb. 22-25): he could prophesy the oracles of the Lord when he was seized by the Spirit of God (and then he blessed Israel, because it is consistent with the Word of God), but he could also teach Balak to put a stumbling block before the son of Israel, to eat meats sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication (Ap. 2:14). At that time, he did not convey the will of God, though he was a prophet.

Nathan the prophet, when David shared with him his plans to build a house to the Lord, responded immediately: "Go, do all that is in thine heart, for the Lord is with thee" 2Sam. 7:3. This was the viewpoint of Nathan the prophet, based on the experience and wisdom he had acquired in the work of God, and with good intention and good faith. This was just his own, but none of God. The next night the Word of the Lord came to Nathan, it was literally opposite to the perception of the prophet.

The old prophet of 1Kings 13 was indeed a prophet. In verse 21, he did pronounce the oracle of the Lord against the man of God who disobeyed, but before that, in verse 18, he gave a false prophecy and the Bible clearly states that he was lying. Jesus himself, in his condition of the only begotten Son of God, drew a clear line between his own will (let this cup pass from me) and that of his Father who is in heaven (to save humanity through his suffering). There are many, or infinite number of cases. But the false Christs and false prophets want to make people believe that they are representatives of God, and therefore whatever they tell people binds God, for which reason people must bow down!

What are we trying to show in all these things? children of God have the assignment to distinguish between the will of their Father and the will of any man on earth, between the Word of their father and the word of any man, be him Pope , apostle, prophet, pastor, doctor, evangelist, etc. The trap of the enemy is: Anyway, this one is a servant of God; I have to follow what he says! But the man of God followed the false prophecy of the old prophet, and he died; Israel also followed the counsel Balaam reasoned with Balak, and twenty-four thousand fell on one day. David could have taken the perception of Nathan the prophet and could have breached the Will of God! It is not a matter of following what the Servant of God presents to us as God's will, it is rather a question to check and confirm that what the servant of God is bringing to us reflects the true and real Will of God, example of the christians of Berea. This is done through the Word.

Thus, we need to know God and his will and let ourselves entirely moved in the Will. This is more than a simple action of prayer, but an entire life of a child of God. The Bible commands us: “praying always with all prayer and supplications in the Spirit.” Ep. 6:18. “I will therefore that men pray every where lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.” 1Tim. 2:8. If therefore prayer is made always and everywhere, then it is not a single action, but a whole life.

The only begotten one of the Father addressed this prayer to the Father "Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.” Lc. 22:42. Then he let himself out in the Will of God, even though contrary to his own, and no matter how bitter it was. This is the life we see in Abraham, God said to him, cast out Ishmael and his mother Hagar. It was very bitter and painful to Abraham, but he executed the order which conveyed the will of God (Ge. 21:8-14). Again God said to him, offer me in sacrifice your son Isaac, your only one. Abraham performed the divine order against his will and logic.

 All God's children are slaves to the will of God, and so they respond like robots to the instructions of the Almighty God. A robot cannot activate itself nor move before receiving a command from its controller; such also are the children of God, they do nothing but what they see the Father do. If the Father does, they do the same, if He turns left; they turn left, if He turns right, they turn right: the intelligence that commands them is not in their head but in the Word and Spirit of God.

God's children do not prophesy when they want to, they do not heal patients when they want to, and they do not do many miracles in the name of the Lord when they want to, but it is God who works all in them, in his time and according to his will. And so they surrender to Him. This is what God expects us to be, when we say "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven", and those who let themselves moved in the Will of God are those who sanctify the name of the Father, and who deserve to enter the Promised Land.

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