To pray, “Your will be done,” is to ask for the reign of God to become real both in our lives and in our world just as it is in heaven. This message was given on March 15, 2015 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info visit: www.newcitychurch.ca

1. Seeking the Face of God
Using the Ancient Prayer
Jesus Gave Us
“Your Will Be Done”
The Gospel of Matthew 6:5-14

2. “Your wish is
my command.”
image: JD Hancock

3. 5 And when you pray, you must not be
Matthew 6:5-13
like the hypocrites. For they love to stand
and pray in the synagogues and at the
street corner, that they may be seen by
others. Truly, I tell you, they have received
their reward. 6 But when you pray,
go into your room and shut the door

4. Matthew 6:5-13
“…and pray to your Father who is in
secret. And your Father who sees in
secret will reward you.
7 “And when you pray, do not heap up
empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for
they think they will be heard for their
many words. 8 Do not be like them, for

5. Matthew 6:5-13
“your Father knows what you need before
you ask him. 9 Pray then like this:
“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
10 Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.

6. Matthew 6:5-13
11 “Give us this day our daily bread,
12 and forgive us of our debts, as
we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.”
Leader: This is the word of the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!

7. Seeking the Face of God
Using the Ancient Prayer
Jesus Gave Us
“Your Will Be Done”
The Gospel of Matthew 6:5-14

8. 1 What is assumed
by this prayer?

10. “…I delight in your
commandments, which I love.”
~ Psalm 119:47

11. “…your eyes will be opened,
and you will be like God….”
~ Genesis 3:5

12. “Sin, in the final
analysis, is rebellion
against the sovereign
Creator, Ruler, and
Judge of the universe.
It resists the rightful
prerogative of a
sovereign Ruler to
command obedience
from His subjects….

13. “It says to an
absolutely holy and
righteous God that His
moral laws, which are
a reflection of His own
nature, are not worthy
of our wholehearted
obedience.”

14. “the bondage
of the will”

15. “The kingdom of self
is heavily defended
territory. Post-Eden
Adams and Eves are
willing to pay their
respects to God, but
they don't want him
invading their turf.”~ Eugene Peterson
The Contemplative Pastor

16. 2 What is the goal
of this prayer?

17. The kingdom of God
is the kind rule of God
in the hearts of people.

18. ~ Jesus of Nazareth in
The Gospel of John, 4:34
“Jesus said to them, ‘My
food is to do the will of
him who sent me ….’”

19. “Father, if you are willing, remove
this cup from me. Nevertheless,
not my will, but yours be done.”
~ Jesus of Nazareth in
The Gospel of Luke, 22:42

20. image: Christopher Brown
“…he humbled himself by becoming
obedient to the point of death,
even death on a cross.”
~ The Apostle Paul in
Philippians 2:8

21. “For in him all the fulness of God
was pleased to dwell, and through
him to reconcile all things, whether
on earth or in heaven, making
peace by the blood of the cross.”
~ The Apostle Paul
in Colossians 1:19

22. “Joy’s Eternal Increase”
by Samuel Storms, One Thing
“…on earth as it is in heaven.”

23. To pray, “Your will be done,”
is to ask for the reign of God
to become real both
in our lives and in our world
just as it is in heaven.
Main Idea

24. …we surrender our will to the
will of our heavenly Father
1

25. “For this is the will
of my Father, that
everyone who looks
on the Son and
believes in him
should have eternal
life….”~ Jesus of Nazareth in
Gospel of John, 6:40

26. ~ CS Lewis
The Great Divorce
“There are only two
kinds of people—
those who say to God,
‘Thy will be done,’
and those to whom
God says in the end,
‘Thy will be done.’”

27. …we are wanting to want
the will of our heavenly Father
2

28. ~ The Apostle Paul in
2 Corinthians 5:15
“…he died for all,
that those who live
might no longer
live for themselves
but for him who for
their sake died and
was raised.”

29. ““…unless you submit to God’s will in everything,
you are not submitting to him in anything. Think
about it. If you only follow God’s will when it
happens to correspond to your own will, then you
never have to surrender at all. You are simply
asking God to endorse your own agenda….”
~ Phillip Ryken
When You Pray

30. “Unless we are
profoundly certain
God is our Father,
we will never be
able to say, ‘thy
will be done.’”
~ Tim Keller, Pastor
Redeemer NYC

31. …we commit to
doing the will of
our heavenly
Father
3

32. I have a DREAM...
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

33. “And when this happens, when we allow freedom
to ring, when we let it ring from every village and
every hamlet, from every state
and every city, we will be able
to SPEED UP THAT DAY when
all of God's children…,
will be able to join hands
and sing in the words of
the old Negro spiritual…

34. "FREE at last! FREE at last!
Thank God Almighty,
we are FREE at last!"

35. How can we
SPEED UP
THAT DAY
when God’s will
is done on
earth as it is in
heaven
?

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37. ~ Jesus of Nazareth in
The Gospel of John, 4:34
“Jesus said to them, ‘My
food is to do the will of
him who sent me ….’”
~ Hebrews, 10:5, 7
“When Christ came into the world, he said…,
“Behold, I have come to do your will, O God….”