All you who love the Lord, plead for the speedy fulfillment of this promise! It is easy work to pray when our desires are grounded and bottomed upon God's own promises. How can he who gave the word refuse to keep it? Immutable truth cannot demean itself by a lie, and eternal faithfulness cannot degrade itself by neglect. God must bless his Son—his covenant binds him to it! What the Spirit prompts us to ask for Jesus is exactly what God decrees to give him.

Whenever you pray for the kingdom of Christ, let your eyes behold the dawning of that blessed day drawing near, when the Crucified shall receive his coronation in the place where men rejected him!

Courage, you who prayerfully work and toil for Christ with success of the smallest kind—it shall not be so always! Better times are before you. Your eyes cannot see the blissful future: borrow the telescope of faith; wipe the misty breath of your doubts from the glass; look through it and behold the coming glory!

Reader, let me ask—do you make this your constant prayer? Remember that the same Christ who tells us to say "Give us this day our daily bread" had first given us this petition: "Hallowed be thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Let not your prayers be all about your own sins, your own wants, your own imperfections, your own trials, but let them climb the starry ladder and get up to Christ himself! Then, as you draw near to the blood-sprinkled mercy seat, offer this prayer continually: "Lord, extend the kingdom of thy dear Son!"

Such a petition, fervently presented, will elevate the spirit of all your devotions. Mind that you prove the sincerity of your prayer by laboring to promote the Lord's glory!