Thy will be done - 31st Aug 2006

Last Sunday happened to be one of my best friend’s birthday. We had a small prayer before the birthday party and there she shared about God’s faithfulness in her life and specially in the past year. There was something she said which made me reconsider my relationship with God.

She said that God had taught her to pray that she should be ‘in line with God’s will for the redemption of the whole world’.

Are we in line with God’s will for the redemption of the whole world. There are so many times when our prayer time is filled and overcrowded with personal requests, personal problems, personal friend’s problems, requests for our family…………

When was the last time I prayed for a colleague of mine or for someone in grief or someone who needed prayer who isn’t family or friend?? When was I there to comfort or encourage or lift up or applaud someone (for God) who isn’t family or friend?

As Jesus stood in the garden of Gethsemane, he knew very well the pain, torture and the insult he would have to bear. He knew it would be really hard on him. The bible records that his sweat fell as drops of blood. So great was his pain and agony. But yet he chose to be in line with God’s will for the redemption of the whole world.

We tend to sometimes get so absorbed with ourselves that we forget our purpose here on earth. We forget that our main purpose is to fulfill God’s purpose which he planned out long before he even created us.

We need to decide from now on whenever we pray or do anything, we would try to be in line with His will for the redemption of the whole world. Our prayers, Our talks, Our actions, Our concern, should be in line with this purpose and aim at achieving this for God – Wherever we are…….. at home, at work and everywhere we go.




Leviticus 25:24:24 Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land. (AMP)

1 Timothy 2:3-4: 4Who wishes all men to be saved and [increasingly] to perceive and recognize and discern and know precisely and correctly the [divine] Truth. (AMP)

Matthew 6:10:
10Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. (KJV)