Apparently, according to Nehemia Gordon, in the correct Hebrew translation of Matthew's gospel the "Lord's Prayer" should read "...Your Kingdom come Your will will be done on earth as it is in heaven...". Now that puts a whole different slant on things. In fact as one friend said it makes your prayer life different.
How?
Well if God's will will be done then we can relax a bit because what He knows is the right thing to happen will happen. But also it ups things a bit too when one gets one's head round prayer as being a partnership with God. We really do need to know what God's will is so that we don't waste countless hours praying for something He doesn't want to happen. I know with the partnership thing we can be negotiating because we do have that amazing honour of, through Jesus, being allowed into Father's throne room. But still we need to know we are coming in in His will not in our own great ideas.
So once we know what God's will is we can be praying in His will that will be done, which then makes more sense of Jesus putting this line in for His disciples to simplify the whole prayer thing.
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