The second petition: Thy Kingdom

123 What is the second petition?

123 Your kingdom come, that is: So govern us by your Word and Spirit that more and more we submit ourselves to you. 1 Preserve and increase your church. 2 Destroy every force which revolts against you and every conspiracy against your Word. 3 Do this until the fulness of your kingdom comes, when you will be all in all. 4

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Psalms 119:5

Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!

Psalms 143:10

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

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Psalms 122:9

For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.

Matthew 16:18

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

John 10:16

And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

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Psalms 2:8-9

Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

Romans 16:20

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

1 John 3:8

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

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1 Corinthians 15:28

When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.

Revelation 22:20

Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

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