and the Kingdom of Glory in the next. [Mark 1:15, Matt. 25:34]

COMES INDEED OF ITSELF WITHOUT OUR PRAYER. Christ has established His
kingdom and will continue to extend it, whether we pray for it or not.
[Isa. 9:7]

BUT WE PRAY IN THIS PETITION THAT IT MAY COME TO US ALSO; that is, into
our hearts. In other words, we pray that we may become true Christians;
[Matt. 7:21] and if we are Christians, we pray that we may become better
Christians.

_Missions._ This petition is also a prayer for missions. [Matt. 9:37,
38+, Mark 16:15] We here pray that God's kingdom may come to all men. If
our prayer is sincere, then we must be willing also to give liberally,
so that the Gospel may be preached to the heathen (Foreign Missions) and
to the spiritually destitute in our own land (Home Missions and Inner
Missions).

HOW GOD'S KINGDOM COMES TO US.

WHEN OUR HEAVENLY FATHER GIVES US HIS HOLY SPIRIT. Since only believers
belong to God's kingdom, and we "cannot by our own reason or strength
believe in Jesus Christ our Lord," we pray in this petition that God
would give His Holy Spirit to us,

SO THAT BY HIS GRACE WE BELIEVE HIS WORD, [I Cor. 12:3] AND LIVE A GODLY
LIFE [Tit. 2:11-13+] HERE ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN FOREVER. The Holy
Spirit must teach us to repent of sin and to believe in Christ, and
preserve us in a life of daily repentance and faith. Then God's kingdom
will come to as more and more in this world, and in the next world we