We should pray that our enemies be converted and become our friends, and if not, that their doing and designing be bound to fail and have no success and that their persons perish rather than the Gospel and the Kingdom of Christ.
– Martin Luther
If we are serious when we pray “thy Kingdom come” then by necessity we need to pray that those Kingdoms that oppose the Lord Christ and the people who animate those satanic Kingdoms would be destroyed. Naturally, when we pray that way our immediate desire is that God’s enemies would be converted so that they would become His friends. However, as Luther notes above, if the enemies of God kick against the goads and refuse to repent then it is in keeping with the Lord’s Prayer (thy Kingdom come) that we pray that God would remove them from their positions of influence even if doing so means that they perish. Kings and all men must Kiss the Son lest the Son be angry and they perish in the way.
Still, we earnestly hope and pray that God would grant them life from the dead.
In our prayer life let’s not let our sentimentalism get in the way of the advance of God’s Kingdom.
