The sermon by Peter Allison focuses on the petition 'Your will be done' from the Lord's Prayer, emphasizing the importance of praying for God's will to be fulfilled on earth as it is in heaven. It distinguishes between God's secret will, which is His unchangeable plan for the world, and His revealed will, which consists of the commands and precepts given to humanity in the scriptures. The sermon explores how these aspects of God's will interact without conflict, using scriptural examples to illustrate their implementation and purpose. It is explained that while God's secret will always comes to pass, His revealed will often does not, due to human disobedience. Therefore, believers are taught to pray for obedience to God's commandments and to submit joyfully to His secret will as it unfolds in their lives. The sermon also addresses common theological questions regarding God's sovereignty and human responsibility, urging believers to maintain prayerful perseverance, seek God's justice, and trust in His promises.

Luke chapter 11. Once again, I would like to read the entire passage, but we'll be looking at primarily the third petition today. Hear God's word. Now it came to pass as he was praying in a certain place when he ceased. That one of his disciples said to him, Lord teach us to pray as John also taught his disciples.

So he said to them, When you pray, say, Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven give us day by day our daily bread and Forgive us our sins for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us and do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from the evil one and He said to them Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him. And he will answer from within, and say, Do not trouble me. The door is now shut, and my children are in bed with me I cannot rise and give to you I say to you though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs. So I say to you, ask and it will be given to you.

Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives, and he who seeks, finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?

Or if he asks for an egg will he give him a scorpion? If you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him? May our petitions be received that the Lord would deliver us according to His word. Almighty Heavenly Father, We ask this morning that this word that we have heard might be mixed with faith. We ask that you would open our understanding, that we may grow in our obedience, in our zeal for your kingdom and your will.

And I ask especially that you might sanctify these sinful lips that they might proclaim what is true. May you be glorified in our midst this morning through Jesus Christ we ask. Amen. Amen. Well, In our study of the Lord's Prayer, we have been going through each of these petitions.

And last week in teaching us to pray, Your Kingdom come, We saw that Christ was teaching us to pray that Satan's kingdom would be destroyed, and Christ's kingdom would be advanced. Now both of these kingdoms are spiritual kingdoms in that neither have a bodily form to them. But both are very real. They exist. And the effects, the fruit, if you will, of both of these kingdoms are quite visible and quite evident in this physical world.

So we saw that Christ's kingdom last week was where God's rule is mediated through Christ as He reigns in the hearts of His people. The kingdom in that sense of God is within us. Satan, on the other hand, has been at war with God ever since the fall. He's been at war with Christ. He's been opposed to Christ throughout all of history.

Psalm 2 talks about this battle, this cosmic war. It calls it a conspiracy. So Jesus teaches us in this prayer that we, one of the things that we ought to pray for is that Christ's kingdom would be advanced, that it would come, that it would flourish, that it would grow. And then he said, he follows that up, the next petition, the next thing he teaches us to pray for is that Christ's will, God's will would be done here on earth as it is already being done in heaven. Now these two are related, but they are distinct.

There's overlap, you might say, between what these two petitions are asking. Now when we talk about God's will, it can be sometimes a little bit confusing because there are two aspects to God's will. And so if we're going to be praying for God's will to be done, we need to be clear about these different aspects of God's will because they interact with this prayer differently. One aspect of God's will is His secret will. The secret will of God is what He has determined to do from before the foundation of the world.

It's what He's determined to bring to pass. And that includes the creation, the fall of man, the incarnation, and every single thing in between there. Both evil and good. Every single thing that has happened since the beginning of time. That is God's secret will.

What He brings to pass, what nobody, what Nebuchadnezzar acknowledged, nobody can even stop you from doing. Nobody can even question you and say, What are you doing? God does as He has decreed. And no man, nothing, can subvert or divert what God is determined to do, what His will is, His secret will. And a number of scriptures teach this, Numbers 23, God is not a man that he should lie, nor the Son of Man that he should repent.

Has he said and will he not do it? Has he spoken and will he not make it good? Those rhetorical questions obviously are yes. Yes, he will Isaiah 46 remember the former things of old for I am God and there is none other I am God and there is none other. I am God and there is none like me.

Declaring the end from the beginning, saying what is going to happen at the beginning and what he said happens always. It never fails. In fact, that was a sign of a true prophet that nothing they said, not one thing, it can't be just 99.999% right. The mark of a true prophet is 100%. Not one thing ever fails, falls to the ground, of everything that they say.

So God is the one who declares the end from the beginning and from ancient times things that are not yet done saying my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure Paul Paul alludes to this in Romans 9 when he says you will say to me then why does he find fault for who has resisted his will? The implication, the answer to that rhetorical question is no one can resist the will of God. And so there's this argument then, well how can God find fault with people if people can't resist His will? How can they find fault with what happens or what they do if it was the will of God and nobody can resist His will? Paul answers that question there.

Or Hebrews 6, where in God, willing more abundantly to show the heirs of the promise, the immutability, unchangeableness of His counsel, confirmed it with an oath. He swore, God took an oath by His own name, as He commands us to do. Because His will is immutable, it's unchangeable. Or in Acts 2, where Peter says in the sermon at Pentecost of Christ, him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. This is what God had determined to do.

It's His will. You have taken and by Wiccan hands have crucified and slain. Or Proverbs 21, the King's heart is in the hand of the Lord and he turns it whether so ever he will because he can bring to pass whatever he has decreed now be can as I said of God and Daniel for all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing. He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth, and no one can restrain His hand or say to Him, What have you done? So That's God's secret will.

It is unchangeable. It will come to pass exactly as God has decreed. But God's revealed will, on the other hand, is what He has revealed to us, given to us, told us in the scriptures. Where He tells us, this is what you ought to do, this is what you ought not to do. This is what I want you to do, This is what I don't want you to do.

We sometimes call this revealed will his preceptive will, from his precepts. We also call the secret will his decreed will, what he has decreed to do. This revealed will is comprised of his commands, of his statutes, his precepts, and so on. So Moses told the children of Isro in Deuteronomy, The secret things belong to Jehovah, our God. But those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever.

And here's why God revealed them. That we may do all the words of this law. And so it is this revealed will then that Jesus is teaching us to pray, that we should pray that it would be done here on earth as it is done in heaven. Done in heaven. Because unlike the secret will, which is always done, it never fails.

God's revealed will is not being done on earth, is it? That's obvious, isn't it? God says don't murder. Well, there's hundreds of thousands of murders. God says don't commit adultery.

Well, this has become a routine occurrence in all around us. God says, have no other gods before me. And yet we do, because our hearts are as one old past pastor of old said, are like idol factories. When we sin, either in our thoughts, in our words, or in our actions, we fail to do the will of God. But unlike the angels in heaven who never fail to do God's will.

And see, so this will can be, this revealed will, There is a sense in which it can be resisted. It doesn't happen. In Luke 13, in a couple chapters, as Jesus laments over Jerusalem, he says, oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, There is a genuine sorrow here in Christ as he looks upon this city and knows that it's going to be coming to destruction in a horrific way. He says, Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem. He wept over this city.

The one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her, how often, how often I wanted to gather you as a hen gathers her brood under her wings. But you were not willing. Because as I wanted to gather you, gather your children, but you weren't willing. Or in Luke chapter seven, we saw earlier, the Pharisees and the lawyers, Luke writes, frustrated the counsel of God against themselves being not baptized by Him. They frustrated the counsel of God.

And other passages imply that God's will is not done by everyone. John 9.31, now we know that God hears not sinners. He doesn't hear sinners. But if any man be a worshiper of God and does his will, then he hears him. So there's the implication that there are people that aren't doing God's will, that God's will is not being done on earth as it is in heaven.

Some people see a third aspect to God's will that they call His dispositional will, that what God is disposed to like, that which pleases God. But I think it is better that this is really just what is also better understood as his preceptive will. That God wants us to do what he's commanded us to do. That God delights in obedience. And obedience is doing his revealed will.

So I think this dispositional will and his revealed will are really the same thing. God is pleased. God is favorably disposed toward the obedience of His revealed will. Now these two wills, these two aspects of God's will are not in conflict with each other, But it does raise the question how God can will or decree all events, including events of great evil and wickedness, and yet not be the author of sin. And some have tried to resolve this, what they see as a difficulty.

They've tried to resolve it by distinguishing between the permissive will of God and the sovereign will of God. The sovereign will of God being what He decrees to come to pass, and a permissive will being what He permits, or merely allows to come to pass. That is, in God's permissive will, their idea is that God doesn't directly intervene to make things happen. He simply allows it. He simply, as it were, looks the other way when it happens.

But this, brothers and sisters, is not the God of the Scriptures. God has willed or decreed everything that comes to pass. And calling it just a permissive will doesn't really solve the dilemma. Because if God is all-powerful and has all authority in heaven and earth, if he is the mighty God, then he could stop something that's evil, but he doesn't stop it. Well, that would make him, if that was indeed the case, that would make him responsible for that evil, just as if he had done it.

I think this is better resolved by understanding the authority to act and the intention in acting. I think it's a better way to resolve and to reconcile these two aspects of God's will. What do I mean by authority? Well, God commands us not to kill. He commands us not to take anyone's life of another person unless that person has unjustly killed somebody.

Then we are to execute justice. But see, we don't have authority over other people's lives or our life. God has not given us authority over life to decide when people should die and when they should live. That's just not our authority. It's not our place to determine that.

God has reserved that to himself. And so if we take that authority to ourselves and decide that somebody should die, we call that a murder. And we say that's a great evil. And it is, because it violates or breaks the law of God. It's not just because it hurts somebody.

There are sins that, there are a lot of sins that people would say, well they don't hurt anybody, how can it be wrong? Well, it's not wrong because it hurts somebody. It's not, Murder is not wrong so much, primarily because it leaves widows and widowers and orphans and so on, and grieving family members. That is bad. But it's so evil because it is a sin against God.

It's a violation of His commandments. It's taking authority to ourselves that He has not given us and doing something that He has not given us authority to do. But you see, God has that authority. And if He decides to take the life of grandpa at 99 years of age in his sleep one night, nobody says, well, great evil has been done. We all recognize that that is God's authority to do that.

The fact that we live at all, given that we're all sinners, is the mercy of God. God doesn't owe us life. And if He were to take all of our lives, He's just in doing that because we're all guilty. And so you see, it's not a sin for God to take someone's life whenever he desires. So you see, if God has authority to do that, now in decreeing evil, God is simply bringing his goodwill to pass, his just will to pass, through the evil of other people.

If God decides that I'm to die tonight, and that's just decision on God's part, He has that authority. I don't deserve to live. If He does that through the hand of a wicked person who murders me, see God is still just and good in what he did. Yes, he used a wicked person, but he is not the author of that wickedness. They were the author of that wickedness in their choosing to sin against God.

You see the difference there is simply authority. God can use the wicked acts of men to accomplish His perfect and His good will. That doesn't make God a sinner or guilty of sin. Now the other aspect I think we need to keep in mind is intent. Men sin with evil intentions.

That's what sin is, a desire to do contrary to the law of God, whether it's in our thinking, in our words, or in our actions. God's intentions, though, are always good. God's intention is always to carry out His perfect and good will. And so Joseph could say of the same act, the evil act of Joseph's brothers selling him into slavery, Joseph could say of that act that God intended it for good what you intended for evil. So God can ordain something because what God ordained was good.

God ordained to get Joseph down into Egypt, And he did it through the sinful acts of his brother. But God's intention was good. God intended that for good. And he worked it for good to save the whole nation of Israel and many other nations. The brothers though, in what they did, they intended it for evil.

The same act. The same thing is said of Christ's crucifixion, Peter said. He said, you by wicked hands, you acted according to the determinant counsel of God to kill the Lord of glory. But God intended that for great good because through Christ's death, He saved all of His people. And so these two wills then, God's secret will and his revealed will or his preceptive will and his decretal will are not in conflict.

They're not in conflict. Both of these aspects of God's will though are in view when we pray that God's will would be done on earth as it is in heaven. But what we are requesting is slightly different in each case. In the case of the revealed will, we are praying that God's will would be done here on earth as it is done in heaven. In the case of His secret will, we are praying that we would receive that will and submit to it with cheerfulness, with joy, as what God in his sovereign plan has seen fit to bring to pass.

And so we could look then at throughout the scriptures at What is it that we are to pray for? What is Jesus teaching us to pray for in telling us to pray that his will would be done on earth? Well, with respect to people, God's revealed will is obedience to his commandments. So Ephesians 5 says, for you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.

That's what we are to pray for in praying that God's will would be done, that we, who were once in darkness but are now in the light, that we would walk as children of the light, finding out what is acceptable to the Lord, what He has commanded us to do and forbidden us to do. Paul states this explicitly in 1 Thessalonians 4, where he says, For this is the will of God, your sanctification. That is, that you should abstain from sexual immorality See sanctification is the dying more and more to sin and living more and more for Christ He has shown you a man what is good and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God. And so these are the prayers then that we ought to be praying. Jesus is teaching us to pray for, that we would learn to do justly, that we would learn to love mercy, and that we would walk humbly, not proudly.

We are praying that God would by His Spirit remove from ourselves and everybody else blindness meaning an ignorance of what God's will requires of us. An ignorance of God's will. We're praying that God would remove that ignorance. We're praying that God would remove weakness. We know what God calls us to do, but we are just unable to do it.

We lack the discipline or we lack the training or in disposition to the will of God. We know what to do, we have the strength to do it, but we just don't have the desire to do it. So when we pray for the Lord's will to be done, we're praying that he would take away our blindness, that he would take away our weaknesses, that he would take away our being indisposed to his will, or just perverseness of heart. And that by His grace we pray that He would make us both able and willing to know His will, to do His will, and to submit to His will. So that's the submission to His will is what we pray for with regard to His secret will.

That as it becomes known, because God's secret will is revealed moment by moment as it comes to pass in history. So we then want to pray that we submit to that will as God's good and gracious and holy will. This was Paul's prayer for the saints at Ephesus and should be our prayer as well. He said, I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers." And this is what he prayed. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him.

There's a knowledge of the will of God. That's what Paul prayed, that they would know the will of God. They would have this spirit of, give them the spirit of wisdom and revelation. That's the Holy Spirit. He prayed that the eyes of their understanding, he said, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward those to us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and Seated him in the heavenlies that was Paul's prayer.

There's a prayer that that the will of God might be done in their life specifically in those different ways. David also prayed a beautiful prayer regarding the desire of his heart, the disposition of his heart. One thing he said in Psalm 27, I have desired of the Lord, and that will I seek after, That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of Yehovah and to inquire in his temple that that was his desire That's what he said he prayed for. All the days that he would be able to do this, all the days of his life. He's praying day by day that he would persevere.

When you said, seek my face, my heart said to you, your face, Jehovah, I will seek. He's praying that his will would be disposed to doing what God has commanded us. So, those are some examples. There's many, many prayers in Scripture That we could look at that pray for these things with respect to families God's will is that husbands know how to possess or acquire their own wives in sanctification and honor. To dwell with them in an understanding way.

That's God's will for families and for wives to be able to reverence their husbands. God's will is that Children grow up learning the Scriptures from their youth, the Scriptures that are able to make them wise unto salvation. God's will for families is that children grow up hearing their parents talk and teach as they walk by the way, as they lie down and as they rise up. God's will for the church is that His worship be pure. Also, Paul prayed in Ephesians as well that the saints might be equipped for the work of ministry and the whole body being fitly joined together by what every joint supplies causes the growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

And Paul said that's why God provided pastors and teachers and evangelists and so on to the church to be able to equip the saints for these works of ministry to be able to equip the saints to be this body that is fitly joined together, that is edifying itself by what every joint and ligament supplies, and that this is all done in love, that there's a love for one for another. That is God's will, brothers and sisters for us as a congregation. So Paul specifically prays that God gave These offices for the equipping of saints for the work of ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ Till we all come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man to complete To the measure of the stature and fullness of Christ that we should no longer be children tossed about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men who are cunning in their deceitful plotting. He's praying that we have a maturity and a knowledge of the Word of God that we aren't led astray easily And so that this whole body is joined together as one body God's will for the church is given in Ephesians 3 where Paul prayed that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church.

The manifold, multifaceted wisdom of God might be made known to the powers and the principalities through the church. The church was the means of God's wisdom, His multifaceted wisdom, being made known in heavenly places. God's will for the state, the civil magistrate, is that they are a terror to evil and an encourager of good works. That's His will for the state. That's what we ought to be praying for with regard to the civil government.

That the civil magistrate, that our civil magistrates, whether they're judges or legislatures or executive officers, that they would acknowledge God as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. That their laws, the laws that they make, would be in submission and in agreement with the law of God and not contrary to God's law. That the courts would testify to the truth of God's word and legislatures would enact laws likewise. That's God's will for the civil magistrate. Jesus teaches us to pray that His will would be done as the angels in heaven do his will.

How do they do his will? Well, they do it with great faithfulness. They do it with constancy. They always are doing God's will. They are always before His throne.

They do it with a cheerfulness, not a reluctance to do God's will. There is a cheerfulness in their doing of God's will. Faithfulness, a diligence, a zeal, there's a sincerity, and there is, as we've said, a constancy to it. So we are to be praying that God's will is done in our life and around us in the same way. In our prayers, these things should be grounded in the Scriptures, in what God has promised He will do.

That should be the focus of our prayer. We're praying for His will to be done. We ought to be looking to the Scriptures to what is His will in this situation. And sometimes we don't know. And so the Holy Spirit intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words because we don't know what we ought to pray for as we should know.

We don't know, we don't have a clear understanding of what God's will would be in this situation. Well, we have a helper. We have the Holy Spirit who intercedes for us. So that should never be an excuse not to pray. We need to simply ask the Lord to send His Holy Spirit.

We see in the Scriptures, for example, that God is a consuming fire. Hebrews says God is a consuming fire. And he answered Moses, in the case of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, where they challenged the office of Aaron and Moses. God answered with fire. God answered Elijah with fire at Mount Carmel.

God answered David with fire when he was offering the sacrifices as part of his confession and repentance when he sinned with the census. God answered with fire. Solomon's prayer is at the dedication of the temple. The church at Laodicea, God said he would spew them out of his mouth because they were lukewarm. There was no zeal for God.

They weren't on fire. There was no Holy Spirit zeal in them. So we need to pray for the fire of God, for the zeal of God. We need to pray for justice. God is a just God.

So it's His will that there be justice on the earth. Civil rulers are called to rule justly in the fear of God. We are called, remember in Micah, to do justly. So there are many, many prayers in the scripture for God to do justice. Some of them are very difficult for Christians today, because they're hard to fit into their understanding of what we're to pray for and how we are to be.

So for example, Psalm 10 says, Break the arm of the wicked and evil man. Seek out his wickedness until you find none. Or Psalm 69 says, Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them. Those are imprecatory prayers, but they're prayers for God's justice. Abel's blood cried out from the ground to God, and God heard it.

The martyrs in Revelation 6 cry out with a loud voice to the Lord saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth? These are The prayers of the martyrs. How long, O Lord, until you avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth? These aren't just Old Testament prayers. There are many New Testament prayers for the justice of God as well.

Paul had such prayers for those who were workers of evil, that the Lord would repay them according to their deeds. Now how do we understand these prayers for justice? Well, these are not prayers for our own enemies, who we don't like or who did something wrong to us. These are specifically prayers that Christ's kingdom would be advanced and that Christ would move in judgment against his enemies. You see, it is right to pray for this because we have the example in Scripture of saints praying these prayers.

And Jesus is here telling us to pray that God's will would be done on earth, even as it is being done in heaven. And God has said that He is a just God. That is what He has promised, that He will recompense evil. He will take vengeance in flaming fire on all those who do not obey the Gospel. And even in that passage in Romans, that we would want to go to to learn how to pray for those who persecute us and not to repay evil for good for evil.

Not to repay evil for evil, but to repay good for evil. That whole passage says, why are we to pray these? Why are we to act that way? Why are we not to take vengeance ourselves? He says, because we are to give place to wrath, because God has said, vengeance is mine, I will repay.

We are to give place to God's vengeance. God is an avenging fire. That's what he's promised right there. He said, I will bring vengeance on those who do evil. And it is through the prayers of His saints that God has moved to do that.

And so every time you see one more instance on the news of gross injustice, of oppression, of tyranny. It ought to cause you not to get disgusted, not to curse, not to become afraid, but to simply fall on your knees and pray that God would bring his justice to those who do evil. That these enemies of the cross might be conquered in his grace, and if not in his grace, then in his wrath. But Jesus is teaching here that we ought to pray that God's will is done. Part of that will is for justice.

We ought also to pray for God's blessing. There are many, many places in the Scriptures that teach us to pray for blessing. They promise God's blessing for obedience. Just look at some of the blessings in Deuteronomy 28, or some of the other places, Psalm 144. Give these blessings that God promises to those who obey.

Job's prayer is an example of a prayer submitting to the will of God. Remember when all those calamities came upon him, when St. John took from him everything he had, took his family, his children, took his property, took his flocks, took all his servants, except for one or two, and even took his health, Job recognized this was the will of God. And he prayed, Naked came I from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, the Lord has taken away.

Blessed be the name of the Lord." That's Job's prayer, submitting to the will of God, to the secret will of God as it was revealed in his life. But also, we ought to pray in this prayer for God's will to be done for the discipleship of the nations. The Great Commission gives us a very great and precious promise that God will never leave us, that God will never forsake us, and that all authority in heaven and earth has been given to Him. And because of that, then we are to go and disciple the nations. And so this is God's will.

It is God's will for the nations to hear the gospel. It is God's will that those who are yet in their sins that haven't heard the gospel hear the gospel in turn. And So this ought to be a very big part of our praying that God's will would be done. But you also see how it ties together very closely with His Kingdom coming and our prayers for His Kingdom to be coming. Well, there are three or four hundred prayers recorded in Scripture, either the words of the prayer or the fact that they prayed.

And all of these, plus all of the promises, ought to be examples for us in prayer, ought to be an encouragement and a reminder to us to remember to pray that God's will would be done here on earth now, in our lifetimes, even as it is already being done in heaven. And to never give up that prayer. To never give up that prayer. To be able to pray all of our life till the day we die for these things, even if God carries in bringing them to pass. God's promises are, yay and amen, in Jesus Christ.

God will bring them to pass. And he calls us as his people to persevere in praying that they do. Almighty Heavenly Father, we thank you for the instruction of your Word and we ask that You would encourage us, that You would equip us to pray with zeal, to pray with fervency, to pray with constancy and perseverance. Father, how quickly we get tired, how quickly we move on. Lord, we ask that you might remind us, and remind us, to pray with perseverance, to pray, do not grow weary in doing well.

To pray with endurance. For you have promised that the effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous avails greatly. So Lord we ask that you would make us as a people, as individuals zealous in prayer, that you would make us as a congregation, as a body, one body zealous and diligent and fervent in our prayers. And teach us Lord, your will. That we might be able to pray with greater specificity and greater persuasion and greater fervency.

That your will might be done here on earth as it is being done in heaven in Jesus name we ask this amen you