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“May your Kingdom come.  Your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.”

Matthew 6:10

This year the national women’s ministries department has chosen these words as our theme for 2026: As It Is In Heaven.

Looking around our world today, it is difficult to imagine this being anything like what we have learned to expect in heaven.  It is hard to even imagine how it could ever be so.  How could we bring ourselves (or this world) to a place where God’s will is done here as it is in heaven especially when there is so much of it that is out of our control?

I once had a conversation with a friend who, by the way, is a gifted and anointed singer, about our callings in ministry.  She confessed to me that even though God had given her a gift to sing and she would use it where He opened the door, she felt a stronger pull towards pulpit ministry and the study of the Word that it entails.  She said “I feel closest to God when I am studying and delivering His Word to His people.”  As we spoke she helped me to see that worship is where I feel closest to the Lord and where I feel the greatest draw toward ministry.

For me, in worship I am most at peace and the least alone.  In worship, my heart can say all the things that my mind and heart can find no words to express to the only One who can affect real change.  I often find it difficult to tarry in long periods of intense prayer but that is never the case with worship.  It pours out of me almost unbidden no matter how burdened my soul is at the time.  It is a release.  In worship all worry and fear are forced out like a long held breath in the light of the glory of God.

For me worship is the most vulnerable place.  It is where I bring all my burdens to release them, not because I work through them, but instead because I cannot hold them when my hands are out stretched to God.  Worship is complete surrender to God that abandons all else at the feet of the King of the Universe.  Before God is the only place on earth I am not embarrassed or fearful to weep openly.  In worship my heart is free because in worship my heart is not my own.

When Jesus prayed, “May your Kingdom come.  Your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven,” He was calling us to bring heaven to earth.  His will is for His creation to worship Him with abandon.  We have the power to bring that worship to earth rather than waiting until we get to heaven to do it.

We might not have the power to redirect governments and stop evil overnight but we can invite God’s presence into our homes and our workplaces today in worship.  Picture the scene described in Revelation chapter 5:

11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. 12 In a loud voice they were saying:

“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain,
    to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
    and honor and glory and praise!”

13 Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying:

“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
    be praise and honor and glory and power,
for ever and ever!”

This is within our grasp today.  We can start the culture of worship in our own lives.  We can see His will being done on earth as it is in heaven today in our worship.

As you walk through your day today, do it in an attitude of worship.  Invite God’s presence to walk with you and to go before you.  Worship is the same no matter your circumstance in life at the moment because God never changes.  He is the same yesterday, today and forever.  Bring all that you have been carrying and lay it at His feet.  Lose the fear and worry as you extol the One who sits on the throne and the Lamb.  Cast your anxieties and your achievements and all the things that have seemed so important before Him and surrender.  This is how we can bring God’s will to earth.  He is coming back and there will come a day when every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord.  Let’s prepare the way.

Below is a link to a song I have not been able to get out of my mind and heart for about a week.  It’s an old song and the words are not complicated.  If you need a place to start today, this is a good one.

by Stephanie S.