Bringing Down The Kingdom Of God Here On Earth

Matthew 6:9-10

"This, then, is how you should pray:

"'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,

your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Deuteronomy 6:4-8

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 

Deuteronomy 11:18-21

Fix these words of mine in your in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the Lord swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heaven are above the earth. 

I bless the Lord for another wonderful opportunity to share a post on my blog. Much has been shared on the issue of marriage and I had been trusting God for the grace to share other topics that bothers on the home other than marriage. In answer to my prayer, we are moving on from the man and his wife in marriage, it's time to turn our flash lights to raising the children. The next important issue I believe is that of raising godly offspring. In the book of Malachi 2, when God addressed the issue of man and his wife, He mentioned that the reason why He is watching over the union was because He the Lord was seeking godly offspring from that union.

We are all very familiar with the Lord's prayer found in the book of Matthew 6, from verse 9 to 14. Verse 10 of that passage says "your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven," and I am most positive that many parents still don't realize that the answer to that prayer lie in their actions; in their ability to produce the godly offspring that the Lord seeks from their marriage union. 

Now the more the godly offspring we produce from our marriage union, the more the population of God's generals carrying out the will of God here on earth just as it is in heaven. And so God instructed through Moses that as we stamp the commandments of God upon our hearts and souls, being careful to follow and carry out these commandments, we should also teach and impress them on our children and sustain the growth of the generals of God on the face of the earth. 

There are many lessons to learn from the instruction of Moses in the passages above, but for the purpose of this blog post, I will like to fix my attention on the part of the passage that says "Impress them on your children." The Lord is not requiring that as parents we just present His words to our children, but that we impress His commandments on them. Then we will be able to produce for Him the godly offspring that He seeks from our marriage union. 

In order to understand what God requires of us concerning the instruction in this passage, it will be of advantage that we understand the dictionary meaning of that word impress. From the discovery I made the word impress has the following dictionary meanings: 1) to affect deeply or strongly in mind or feeling; influence in opinion, 2) to fix deeply or firmly on the mind or memory, as ideas or facts, 3) to impose a particular characteristics or quality upon (something), 4) to produce ( a mark, figure etc.) by pressure; stamp; imprint, 5) to apply pressure, so as to leave a mark, 6) to subject to or mark by pressure with something. 

These are some of the meaning of that word impress that I have been a able to find in the dictionary. But what caught my attention in all of these meanings is that in order to impress the words of God in our children and produce the godly offspring who are the generals of God that will cause the will of God to be done on earth as it is in heaven then the task requires pressure. It is not just buying them a Bible as a gift, it requires continuous teaching monitoring and mentoring until the mark of God becomes visible in their lives. You are required to fix those words in them deeply and firmly and this requires pressure such that it is not easily removed. Despite the challenges they may face in their lives from time to time and from phase to phase, still the word of God in them remains deep and firm. When all true Christian homes begin to produce offspring in whom the word of God is deep and firmly rooted, then in multitudes we begin to have the physical manifestation of God's kingdom here on earth as it is heaven with the generals of God doing His will in all seasons and at all times.