Your Kingdom Come: What It Really Means to Pray | How to Pray

How did you learn to pray? For most of us, it was supper-table habits, locker-room requests, or a scary bedtime rhyme — not a real understanding of what prayer is. In this message from our "How to Pray" series, we look at Matthew 6:10 and the phrase "your kingdom come, your will be done" to discover that prayer isn't about managing God — it's about submitting to Him as a holy King. Using four images from history — the ziggurat, the mountain, the temple, and the upper room — we trace humanity's attempts to reach God, and see how Jesus' model prayer flips our instinct to bring God down to us into an invitation to be restored to Him. In this message you'll learn: Why treating faith as "cultural" makes God feel common and our approach casual The difference between managing God (the ziggurat) and being restored by Him (the upper room) Why God's plan is better than our own brand How to move from anxious, self-focused prayer to kingdom-focused prayer 📖 Key Scripture: Matthew 6:9-11, 31-33 | Genesis 11 | Acts 2 This is part of our "How to Pray" series. Missed last week? We looked at prayer as simply talking with our Heavenly Father. Next week: a God who hears you and knows your needs. 🔔 Subscribe for weekly messages from Refinery Church 🌐 refinerychurch.ca 📍 Edmonton, Canada #HowToPray #RefineryChurch #LordsPrayer #ChristianSermon