Agreeability

Wouldn’t we like to think Life is all about us, our ways, our desires, our fulfillment, our happiness but according to Jesus that is not the case.
The model Jesus gave His disciples for prayer is a model of the priorities of God not only in heaven but also in our lives.

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.¹

‘Hallowed’ is not a word we use any more but it is related to ‘holy’ meaning distinct, not confused with the common, that which is set apart so as to not be profaned. When we pray to the LORD, it is to be with the recognition that He is distinctively different than we, that as the next phrase says, He desires what is best, what is eternal, what agrees with His will. ‘Your will be done’ acknowledges that God’s will is of the higher priority than ours unless we are in agreement with Him and His will. Understand that the LORD has both perspective and wisdom beyond ours, that He knows the outcome and not just the immediate. ‘On earth as it is in heaven’ reminds us of that higher standard that is the wisdom of the LORD for it is beyond the created and has the eternal view. So often our sense of immediacy loses sight of enduring consequences for we want immediacy, relief, satisfaction, escape from the moment when the moment may be used of God as an opportunity for discipline in our discipling process.

In the prayer, ‘Today’ and the provision for ‘Now’ takes priority over perceived needs of the future. How often we try to live in Tomorrow while it is still Today and waste the possibilities of Now. The prayer then turns to the changing of ourselves according to what God is bringing into our lives—forgiveness and repentance. How we respond through the forgiveness He has given us and how we live out the repentance in which we committed to change according to who He is, round out our coming to Him with any petition. There is the element of humility in recognizing that we needed His forgiveness and His enabling to follow in the commitment of change before we think of ‘more’ in His desires for us.
Luke 11 is a parallel passage and after the prayer, continues with more of Jesus’s teaching on coming to God for what the LORD would provide:

And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” ²

God’s desires for giving you what you need focuses in the eternals. Yes, He knows and understands your needs in this moment but His care for you goes much further than Now. Notice that the ‘good gifts’ includes in first priority that who has the highest possibility of leading you in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake, the Holy Spirit. When you come to God with your concerns, needs, wants, look for His desires for your fulfillment in relationship with Him as a child of God. Want what serves Him and not your old way of life.