Q 192: What do we pray for in the third petition?
A 192: In the third petition (which is, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven,)[1 acknowledging, that by nature we and all men are not only utterly unable and unwilling to know and do the will of God,[2 but prone to rebel against his word,[3 to repine and murmur against his providence,[4 and wholly inclined to do the will of the flesh, and of the devil:[5 we pray, that God would by his Spirit take away from ourselves and others all blindness,[6 weakness,[7 indisposedness,[8 and perverseness of heart;[9 and by his grace make us able and willing to know, do, and submit to his will in all things,[10 with the like humility,[11 cheerfulness,[12 faithfulness,[13 diligence,[14 zeal,[15 sincerity,[16 and constancy,[17 as the angels do in heaven.[18
1. Matt. 6:10
2. Rom. 7:18; Job 21:14; I Cor. 2:14
3. Rom. 8:7
4. Exod. 17:7; Num. 14:2
5. Eph. 2:2
6. Eph. 1:17-18
7. Eph. 3:16
8. Matt. 26:40-41
9. Jer. 31:18-19
10. Psa. 119:1, 8, 35-36; Acts 21:14
11. Micah 6:8
12. Psa. 100:2; Job 1:21; II Sam. 15:25-26
13. Isa. 38:3
14. Psa. 119:4-5
15. Rom. 12:11
16. Psa. 119:80
17. Psa. 119:112
18. Isa. 6:2-3; Psa. 103:20-21; Matt. 18:10
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