WLC 191: What do we pray for in the second petition?

Answer: In the second petition (which is, Thy kingdom come1), acknowledging ourselves and all mankind to be by nature under the dominion of sin and Satan2, we pray, that the kingdom of sin and Satan may be destroyed3, the gospel propagated throughout the world4, the Jews called5, the fulness of the Gentiles brought in6; the church furnished with all gospel officers and ordinances7, purged from corruption8, countenanced and maintained by the civil magistrate9; that the ordinances of Christ may be purely dispensed, and made effectual to the converting of those that are yet in their sins, and the confirming, comforting, and building up of those that are already converted10; that Christ would rule in our hearts here11, and hasten the time of his second coming, and our reigning with him forever12; and that he would be pleased so to exercise the kingdom of his power in all the world, as may best conduce to these ends13.

  1. Matt 6:10
  2. Eph 2:2-3
  3. Psalm 68:1,18; Rev 12:10-11
  4. 2 Thess 3:1
  5. Romans 10:1
  6. John 17:9,20; Romans 11:25-26; Psalm 67
  7. Matt 9:38; 2 Thess 3:1
  8. Mal 1:11; Zeph 3:9
  9. 1 Tim 2:1-2
  10. Acts 4:29-30; Eph 6:18-20; Romans 15:29-30,32; 2 Thes 1:11; 2 Thes 2:16-17
  11. Eph 3:14-20
  12. Rev 22:20
  13. Isa 64:1-2; Rev 4:8-11

For further study see:

  1. WSC 102: What do we pray for in the second petition?

 

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