“Your kingdom come, Your will be done… as in Heaven, so on earth.”

Day 1:

1/3 Jesus said, “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 16:19).

Keys mean the authority, the privilege, the access. Some things will not be turned on unless you turn them on. Some things will not be turned loose unless you turn them loose. Some things will not be set free unless you set them free. The key doesn’t make the power of the engine; it releases the power of the engine. (JH)

1/4 Having legal possession of the keys to a car is evidence that we have the right to that car. In the same way, because Jesus gives us the keys to His kingdom, we have the right to come before God in prayer.

1/5 “As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:12). As His children, we have the right to come before our heavenly Father in prayer.

Day 2:

1/9 The precious Holy Spirit enters every believer, but He only moves in power in those who invite His overflowing enablement. Those who don’t invite Him are like cars that have fuel in the tank, but the engine has not been turned on.

1/8 A key is no good to us if we never use it to unlock anything. If the key doesn’t connect with the ignition, the power of the engine will not be ignited. God’s power is always available to us, but if we don’t use the key of prayer, we can’t appropriate this power for our lives.

1/6 Having the keys to the car also means that we have the responsibility for it. In that same way, we are responsible for our side of our partnership with God in prayer. If we don’t use the key of prayer, then nothing is likely to happen. There won’t be anything released or unlocked

Day 3:

2/5 “For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power.” (1 Corinthians 4:20)

1/20 When we understand that the key of prayer is in our hands, and it can ignite God’s power when it connects with the Holy Spirit in us, we will unlock and unleash the power of God in our lives like nothing we have ever seen before.

1/21 The Holy Spirit is the one who, by His presence flowing in our lives, generates the power in us. When we pray, we are opening an avenue for the release of His power. The Holy Spirit brings the power of God into our lives and enables us to be the conduit of it. We become like a lightning rod as we transmit that power in prayer. (JH)

1/22 Once you experience the power of God unleashed in your life through prayer, you will never be the same. Nor will you settle for anything less.

Day 4:

10/17 Jesus said, “Here are the keys of the kingdom. You have the privilege of moving in partnership with the Father’s kingdom, and whatever you bind on earth is bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven” (see Matthew 16:19). (JH)

12/4 “See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.” (Jeremiah 1:10)

3/12 The sovereign God Almighty has decreed that what takes place on earth shall be realized through the willing activities of people who submit to His will and invoke His presence and power. (JH)

10/18 The power is God’s, but the privilege is ours. It’s His plan: Without His sovereign power, we can do nothing; without our obedient partnership, He will do nothing. (JH)

Day 5:

2/3 Moving forward with Jesus always calls us upward in prayer. Our constancy and consistency in prayer increase as we grow in our understanding of why prayer is so important. Essentially, it has to do with the power God invests in us – the power to touch His throne in heaven from our place on earth.

2/8 Prayer is the privileged role we have been given to issue the invitation to His almightiness – penetrating earth’s realm of brokenness with His heavenly kingdom’s saving health and wholeness. (JH)

2/9 How well we understand and accept this privilege and responsibility we have in prayer will determine how much of God’s power will penetrate our world.

Day 6:

1/25 Many people think praying “Your kingdom come” is a prayer about sometime in the future. But it is not a someday prayer. It is referring to now. When we pray “Your kingdom come,” we are asking God’s kingdom to invade our circumstances right now.

2/10 Nothing in all of Jesus’ teaching is clearer about the place of prayer in the advancement of His kingdom purposes than when He taught us how to pray “Your kingdom come.” In short, He is saying “Until I come again to introduce My ultimate rule on earth, the Father’s rule and power waits to be invited into your own and other human situations.” (JH)

2/11 It is God’s will to wait for our invitation. If we pray and invite God’s sovereign power to manifest in earth’s suffering and pain, then He will move in power. Then His kingdom will enter our lives and our circumstances, and work on earth what He has willed in heaven.

Day 7:

12/9 The kind of prayer the Bible reveals – the praying that Jesus calls us all to do together – is a God-given means to touch the core of His divine purposes so that they resonate in the human circumstance. Again, he invites us – no, calls us – to partnership in the release of those purposes. Frankly and simply put, there are certain things that won’t happen unless people pray. (JH)

2/6 Our victorious Savior has told us to call on our almighty Father. He is showing us that the way God has willed for things on earth to be changed begins with His people here – you and me – inviting heaven into the mix. In short, by His own choice He has limited His will, ways, or works to those places on earth they are invited. (JH)

3/10 The will of God and the works and power of God do not simply flow without an invitation into earth’s scene. The Lord has transmitted to His people the responsibility of inviting the presence of the kingdom. It’s not because God can’t do something without us, but because He won’t do it without us. (JH– paraphrasing John Wesley)

Day 8:

2/2 The kingdom of God is the entire realm of God’s universal rule. It is also a realm where the reign of God is working in our lives. That means that while our ultimate destination is with Him in heaven, we also have an interim destination – a place and purpose on earth, advancing His heavenly kingdom’s purposes. (JH)

1/31 Jesus said the disciples should get excited that their names were registered in heaven, because that meant the grounds of their authority were secured through God’s throne – His kingdom – and that’s why the power of hell could not prevail against them. (JH)

2/4 Even though we live in a realm called “Earth” (say, Denver, Dallas, Boston, or wherever), we have the privilege and power to function as citizens of another realm – God’s kingdom. We have literally been made a “new creation” in Christ the King and have exited the kingdom of darkness to live in the kingdom of God’s Son (see 2 Cor. 5:17; Colossians 1:13). (JH)

Day 9:

3/8 Prayer is serving God His way. It’s not just about getting our needs met, although that’s an important part of prayer. God’s plan is to rule earth through His delegated authority. That’s us – we who believe in Him. God wants us to bring His kingdom to bear upon the issues of the earth. God has things for each of us to do, and they start with prayer.

2/13 We will never be able to pray effectively unless we move in the power that gives evidence of God’s presence in our lives. The world around us is frightening, dangerous, and unpredictable, but we have access to a power that can make a difference when we pray.

12/3 Jesus said that all power in heaven was given to Him, and on the cross He broke all the power of hell and rendered powerless all works of the flesh. He put those powers of darkness under His feet, but He tells us that if those things are going to be kept underfoot, we need to step in and pray. (JH)

Day 10:

12/11 Intercessory prayer. A person – such as you or I – steps in and intervenes. We seize or intercept a situation that is headed a certain way and, by praying, take it the other way to victory.

3/24 When we pray we are applying Jesus’ victory through the cross, taking the rule away from Satan and establishing the rule of God. In that way we stop the devil’s work and establish the Lord’s will. We take things that are wrong and make them right.

10/13 We are the intercessors God is calling today. He has made us agents of His kingdom, and He wants us to become His instruments of redemption in every situation through Holy Spirit-energized prayer.

Day 11:

Intercessors -- Standing in the gap to bring the kingdom of heaven to earth – asking to bring his power and reign into our realm… to invade our lives.

9/24 An intercessor is someone who steps into the gap between God’s righteousness and man’s failure, and through prayer brings the merits of the cross to bear upon people and situations.

12/5 When we see works of hell beginning to break loose and manifest, when we see human flesh failing miserable, God says we have the right to immediately step into that situation in prayer. The intercessor stepping in has been given a role, and that is to bring the triumph of the cross of Jesus Christ to bear upon the situation. (JH)

10/12 Just as Christ “stepping in” is described as an intercessor’s action (Isaiah 53:12), on the grounds of what He achieved through His death and resurrection, we are called to “step in” to see the power of His triumph applied today. (JH)

Day 12:

4/18 “But seek first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Luke 12:31)

3/25 God doesn’t want us just waiting around for Jesus to come back or for us to die and go to heaven. There are things He has for us to do in the meantime. He wants us to expose the enemy’s lies and proclaim God’s truth. He wants us to bring health where there is sickness, love where there is fear, forgiveness where there is condemnation, revelation where there is spiritual blindness, and wholeness where there is a shattered life. God’s Word reveals that this can be accomplished when we pray.

12/10 When we struggle with such things as unrealized dreams, an unfulfilling life, lack of mental clarity, or emotional pain, we have access to the God who can touch every area of our lives to transform them and bring about wholeness (kingdom of heaven).

5/7 “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” (Luke 12:32)

Day 13:

10/19 The authority we have to draw on God’s power is ours because of what Jesus did on the cross. We tap into His sovereign power in prayer. We don’t determine what will be done, because we say, “Your will be done in all things.” Yet if we don’t hear God’s call to prayer and answer it, we miss out on the blessings God has for us.

4/22 Pray for God’s will in your life. Say, “Lord, may Your will be done in my life this day and every day.” The more we ask God to keep us in His perfect will, the less chance we will end up outside of it.

“This is the confidence that we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us – whatever we ask – we know that we have what we asked of him.” 1John 5:14

Day 14:

6/23 God invites us to ask for the desires of our heart, but those desires must not be in conflict with the desires of His heart and His will for our lives. If they are, we have to let them go. God’s will must be the ultimate desire of our heart in all that we do.

6/24 When we ask for the desire of our heart, we must above all ask for the desire of God’s heart to be done. And we have to be prepared for either a yes or a no answer and trust that whichever it is, it’s God’s will for our life. If the answer is no to something we want, it’s because God has something better for us.

4/30 “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you” (John 15:7). The key is wanting what He wants. When we do that, we end up doing His will and we find our prayers answered.

Day 15:

2/12 God wants to pour out His Spirit upon each of us and enable us to become ambassadors of His kingdom. He wants to take people who are willing to surrender their lives to Him and show them how to live by the power of His Spirit.

7/19 People must come to a conviction about the invisible life. They need to be unified in believing that the invisible realm is real, and that they have been given a place of privileged authority and access in it. Most people know they should pray, but many don’t believe it’s going to make any difference. (JH)

7/20 If people recognize there is a very real penetration in the invisible realm, it emboldens them and they can believe with greater faith. Jesus came to change things, to save people, to heal the sick, to transform families and circumstance, and to impact nations with a moral turnaround in the souls of people. And the power of a praying church is the key to that. (JH)