WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of

by Ann Voskamp

Prayer isn’t about moving heaven to do things our way but about moving us to do things God’s way on earth. It’s being prayed at all times, even in this very moment, a chorus rising from this spinning earth: Our Father who art in heaven, Your kingdom come. Wasn’t it N. T. Wright who said that “‘Thy kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven’ . . . remains one of the most powerful and revolutionary sentences we can ever say”?1 It’s revolutionary to pray “Thy kingdom come” because it’s turning the soul from the clutches of our kingdom to the totality of God’s kingdom. Pray and turn the pages open, turn the palm up, turn and surrender to the King who is kin. The truly wise want more than their dreams to come true; they want God’s kingdom to truly come. There’s no praying “Thy kingdom come” until you’re living out “my kingdom’s done.”