Since death itself has been defeated we will rise again on the renewed Earth in a body that will not wear out or die.

Transform us now, Lord Jesus, to the ways of Eternity, so that one day we may govern the Earth on Your behalf.

That which is not born of Your Spirit will have no place there, any more than vultures swim beneath the waves or sharks nest in lion’s dens.

Keep blessing in and the enemy out.

Cover us with the outermost fringes of Your glory as You direct our days.

In the twinkling of an eye You will swallow up death in victory and clothe our decaying bodies with imperishable immortality.

By the power that enables You to bring everything under Your control, You will transform our lowly bodies so that they are like Your glorious body.

Just as You restored Your people to their land so Your great desire is to restore them to You, and Earth itself to its highest calling.

You are steering the whole of human history to the moment when you reunite it under the rulership of Messiah, Christ, drawing all the holy ones to dwell together in this perfectly reshaped world.

Through our union in Jesus we will freely work and converse with those from traditions we might once have demeaned or deemed to be wrong, our hearts and relationships reflecting all that You intended them to be.

Here will be found no trace of the unredeemed to haunt our days, and no memory of failed objectives to taint or taunt, for all that is sordid, suspicious or satanic will have been left behind, along with all our rage and spite.

In this glorious continuity, in the age to come the specific concerns that Living Trust placed uppermost in our hearts on Earth will but sharpen their thrust, just as a message once conveyed by semaphore does not cease to convey the truth it held before when sent by other means.

Your eyes will see the king in his beauty and view a land that stretches far.

Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen. The fearful heart will know and understand, and the stammering tongue be clear and fluent.

No longer will the fool be called noble nor the scoundrel be highly respected. But the noble will make noble plans, and by noble deeds they will stand. (Isaiah 33:17, 32:3-5,8)