SCRIPTURE

“Your kingdom [control, dominion] come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” —Matthew 6:10

Have you ever quietly wondered—perhaps beneath the noise of your day, or in the dim corridor of a sleepless night—what is the will of God for me? Not the theological abstraction, not the doctrinal formula, but the living, breathing intent of the Father’s heart toward your actual life.

This question has pursued humanity for centuries. Scholars debate it, believers agonise over it, and entire doctrines rise and fall on interpretations of “the will of God.” Yet Jesus, in the simplest of phrases, unveils it plainly:

“…on earth as it is in heaven.”

It doesn’t get much simpler than that, yet as the saying goes,

“It takes a good theologian to complicate the matter.”

The truth is, we have done this to ourselves. We no longer approach Scripture as the final and living authority; we treat it as a distant abstraction, something prosaic rather than operative. Instead of reading the Word and allowing it to confront us, shape us, and command us, we have outsourced our response-ability to paid professionals—assuming they must surely know better. Yet many do not. Many are wandering in the same fog of speculation and theological contrivance as the average churchgoer, offering opinions where simple truth is needed.

There it is—without embellishment, without complexity, without qualification. If you want to know what God desires for you, ask yourself what “as it is in heaven, so on earth” means.

So, what is life like in heaven?

Is there sickness in heaven?
No.
Then sickness is not His will for you.

Is there poverty in heaven?
No.
Then poverty is not His will for you.

Is there torment, anxiety, or fractured identity in heaven?
No.
Then none of these belong to the will of God for you.

“As it is in heaven” is the final statement on the will of God for mankind and a world that has fallen into deep despair. What do you think Jesus came to do on earth anyway?

Jesus gives us a hermeneutic so startlingly simple that it almost unsettles us: heaven is God’s blueprint—His battle plan, His operating system, His declared will for your life. If you want to know what God intends, look at what Jesus did. He inaugurated the invasion of heaven into earth and demonstrated, in flesh and blood, exactly what the will of God looks like for us. Now, He needs our cooperation to continue the invasion and subdue the chaos.

Matthew Henry writes that the disciple’s prayer “brings earth up to heaven and draws heaven down upon earth.” Rashi, commenting on divine will in the Hebrew Scriptures, notes that God’s will (ratzon) is always expressed in harmony, not contradiction—what God desires is revealed by how God reigns.

Heaven is the unfiltered reality of that reign.

So when we pray “Your will be done,” we are not groping in the dark. We are announcing what already is in heaven so that it may become on earth and so change our experience of this reality.

When your prayer changes, when it aligns with Heaven’s will, that is, when it agrees with what God has stated about His will for us on earth, so will your life experience!

DEVOTIONAL PRAYER

Father,
Let Your kingdom [control] come—first in me, then through me.
Elevate my desires with heaven’s atmosphere.
Strip away every thought that contradicts Your goodness.
Teach me to pray not the problem but the heavenly pattern.
Let my words echo heaven’s verdict and enforce heaven’s reality.
May my life become an outpost of the basileia [kingdom],
a place where Your will is done—
as freely, as joyfully, as naturally as it is in heaven.
Amen.

QUESTION

1. What part of heaven’s reality—health, peace, provision—do I struggle to believe God wants for me?
2. In which areas do I still pray the problem instead of the heavenly will?
3. How would my prayer life change if I truly believed I was enforcing a divine judgement rather than pleading for help?
4. What part of my life most needs the pattern of heaven right now?
5. Where do I sense God inviting me to become “boots on the ground” for His kingdom today?

Answer below in the comments and let us know.