It's a dangerous prayer. It could get you killed.

Jesus knew that. He prayed this dangerous prayer and was indeed killed for it. Hear his words from Matthew 26:39, "Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, 'My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.'"

The prayer of submission means we allow God to have his way in our lives. We find it in the Lord's Prayer, "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." Of course we often cruise through this prayer with little thought for what we are actually saying to the Father of the Universe. In order for his will to be done on earth as in heaven, we must submit our own will to his. This phrase in the Lord's Prayer intends such submission, but do we?

Notice that Jesus did express his preference. He told the Father he would prefer not to go through with dying. Yet in the end, after much struggle in prayer, he submitted. He laid down his own will and ...

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