So much of our fear and anxiety is about the future, worrying whether we’ll have all we need to get through life. Jesus teaches that the Father provides both ‘bread’ and grace for each day, not only for our physical needs but also our deepest need of all.

The first part of the Lord’s Prayer is important for shaping our request for daily bread It is a great comfort that God invites us to come and ask Him for what we need, but also that He hears us as we pray.

Jesus was showing God’s heart when he prayed that God’s kingdom would come to earth. It is not like the kingdoms of this world, but instead calls on us to surrender our will to God so that He might reign in our hearts.

We explore three different aspects to God’s will: secret, discerned and revealed. We unpack questions we might have relating to God’s will and actions we need to take as Christians in the light of God’s will.

God’s will is both sovereign and certain. Through every trial, God can be trusted, and whatever comes our way, He will work for our good. As we look at Jesus in the garden, we see the best example of surrendering our will to the Father’s.

In our Lord’s Prayer series, we look at the line “your kingdom come.” We trace the kingdom of God through the Bible, see how we enter through Jesus, and live between the kingdom’s “now and not yet,” looking ahead to Christ’s return, when it comes in full.

Firstly, this prayer is a petition for the nations to honour and glorify a mighty, majestic and holy God, and secondly for us to be in awe of God.

The many names of God portray his immensity and holiness and allow us to understand just who it is that we meet with in our times of prayer. As we pray “Hallowed be Your Name” we recognise and revere the holiness of our loving and just Father.

How do you approach God? Jesus’ prayer in Matthew 6 is a great encouragement to come boldly into God’s presence through prayer, guarding against both hesitation and presumption by nurturing a heartfelt desire to spend time with our heavenly Father.

Before we ask God for anything, Jesus teaches us who we are talking to. Discover why this changes everything, how we come to truly know him, and how incredible this relationship can become when we grasp who God is and how much he loves us.