DEVOTIONAL: THE TWO SIDES OF DIVINE WILL

SCRIPTURE

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

There are, however, two sides of this divine will—two interwoven hemispheres of the same holy sphere:

  1. What God wants for us, and
  2. What God wants from us.

And the truth is—they cannot be separated. You cannot fully experience what God wants for you unless you participate in what God wants from you.

This is where Jesus’ words pierce with tender clarity: When you pray…”

→ He does not say, “If you pray.”
→ He does not suggest prayer as an optional ornament on the Christian life.
→ He implies that nothing moves, nothing shifts, and nothing aligns without our prayer.

The problem, then, has never been God’s reluctance. It has always been our silence.

We pray the problem. God invites us to pray the solution.

We echo the sickness, the shortage, the fear, the chaos—never realising that every time we pray the problem, we reinforce the problem. Heaven has no vocabulary for despair, yet we often pray with a language heaven does not speak.

God does not ask us to observe the brokenness. He asks us to enforce the verdict He has already written.

For this is the legal reality Scripture presents: a judgement can be true, final, and righteous—and yet remain ineffective if no one enforces it.

Laws do nothing without officers—boots on the ground that enforce legal judgements. Judgments do nothing without execution. Kingdom decrees are the legal basis for our demands. But legal decrees without enforcing officers are inert—they do nothing without voices on the earth.

You and I are the boots on the ground for the Kingdom of God.

MEDITATION VERSE

To execute the written judgement [all the promises, 2 Cor. 1:20] against them [spiritual enemies, Eph. 6:12]—this honour [duty, Matt. 11:12] is for all His saints.” —Psalm 149:9

DEVOTIONAL PRAYER

Father,
Let every corner of my life echo the atmosphere of heaven.
Teach me to pray boldly, not as one begging for scraps,
but as one enforcing the King’s decree.
Let my words carry the resonance of heaven’s authority.
Bring my thoughts, my expectations, my imagination
into perfect alignment with Your will—
as it is in heaven, let it be so in me.
Amen.

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