Irresistible Grace in the Lord’s Prayer

Irresistible (enabling) grace doesn’t mean that God’s elect will never rebel, but that God’s grace is powerful enough to overcome the elect’s rebellion, transform their wills and desires, and lead them to ultimate salvation.

Irresistible Grace - is it biblical?

With this in mind, let’s take a look at the Lord’s Prayer:

In Matthew 6:9, we are asking for God’s name to be hallowed, that the hearts of God’s people will be changed by His grace, so that they will give Him all the glory.

In Matthew 6:10, we are asking that God’s will be done, not our own, on earth as it is in heaven. We are praying for God’s people to do His will, through His enabling grace.

In Matthew 6:11, we are asking that God’s grace free us to trust in His provisions, so that we will not worry over how we are to eat and drink. (Matthew 6:25)

In Matthew 6:12, we are asking God, through His grace, to enable us to forgive our neighbor’s sins, so that our own sins will be forgiven as well. (Matthew 6:14-15)

In Matthew 6:13, we are asking God for the enabling grace which turns us away from the temptations of sin and the wiles of the evil one, the devil.

None of the Lord’s Prayer makes sense without God’s enabling grace to have it accomplished, “on earth as it is in heaven.” Our own free will alone just isn’t up to the task.

If you are an Arminian who loves Jesus, that’s awesome. Your love for God matters more than the rightness of your theology. May God’s will be done in your own life too.

There is a difference between non-Calvinism and anti-Calvinism. If you are an anti-Calvinist, please never sing Amazing Grace again.

John Newton, the songwriter of Amazing Grace, was a Calvinist, because of what God's enabling grace had done to own his life, from a slave trader to an abolitionist.

Amazing Grace - Wikipedia

“I was blind, but now I see,” is a reference to total depravity, that man, in his fallen condition, cannot repent and believe the Gospel without God’s irresistible grace.
Total depravity - is it biblical? | GotQuestions.org

“How precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believed” is the teaching that regeneration precedes faith, that God’s grace changes our wills so that we may believe:
Does regeneration come before faith? | GotQuestions.org

“He will my shield and portion be as long as life endures” is a reference to preservation of the saints, that God’s elect, through His enabling grace, cannot lose their salvation.
https://www.gotquestions.org/perseverance-saints.

 

If irresistible grace is true, then when you pray for the salvation of loved ones, you can have faith in God’s power to save them, if He so chooses, despite their resistance. Every Arminian is secretly a Calvinist when they pray.