OPENING PRAYER THOUGHT

I shall read from The Mount of Blessing, the first two paragraphs on page 159.

M.B., pg. 159 – “God is our Father, who loves and cares for us as His children; He is also the great King of the universe. The interests of His kingdom are our interests, and we are to work for its upbuilding.

“The disciples of Christ were looking for the immediate coming of the kingdom of His glory; but in giving them this prayer Jesus taught that the kingdom was not then to be established. They were to pray for its coming as an event yet future. But this petition was also an assurance to them. While they were not to behold the coming of the kingdom in their day, the fact that Jesus bade them pray for it, is evidence that in God’s own time it will surely come.”

What is the seed thought contained in this reading? What should we pray about? – That we may understand that prayer alone will not take us into the Kingdom; that work is every bit as needful as is prayer. Yes, the interests of His Kingdom should be uppermost in our minds. We are to “work” for its upbuilding as well as praying for it.

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V.T. HOUTEFF

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