The Lords Prayer And Free Will

Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:10

Have you ever prayed the Lord’s Prayer? There are an awful lot of us who have. What is so great about this prayer is: how can we mess it up? I mean Jesus told us exactly what to pray and one of the first things that He told us to pray is that our Father’s will be done. Jesus did not tell us to pray that we know our Father’s will or that we understand our Father’s will and then choose to act on it. Jesus just told us to pray that our Father’s will be done. We cannot ask amiss with this. Amen, it is impossible to ask amiss with this prayer and we all have prayed, “Father Your Will Be Done.”

[Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures.  James 4:3

We can’t fail to receive when making this request, because there is no way to use our Father’s will being done for our own sensual pleasures. Our Father’s will is never evil. It is impossible to be selfish with our Father’s will being done. So it is impossible for this prayer to not be answered 100% of the time. Jesus absolutely knew what He was doing when He told us how to pray.

O Lord [pleads Jeremiah in the name of the people], I know that [the determination of] the way of a man is not in himself; it is not in man [even in a strong man or in a man at his best] to direct his [own] steps. Jeremiah 10:23

I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. John 15:5

Think about Heaven. Do you believe that in Heaven that there is a bunch of free will’s going on? Do the angels have a free will? Do the 24 Elders have a free will? Do the 4 beings that surround the Throne have a free will? Does Jesus have a free will? Is Jesus’ Will something different then our Father’s? Does Jesus have to decide each and every moment to choose to act on our Father’s Will, or is He just One with it? He is One with our Father’s Will, because He is our Father and we are now one with Jesus. We are now Jesus’ flesh and His bones, Ephesians 5:30. We now have the mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16. We have been crucified with Christ, and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who live, it is Christ in us Who lives, Galatians 2:20. Our Father has the free will and His will is being done in us, just as it is being done in Heaven!