"And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with...cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.  36  Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man."  Luke 21:34, 36 (KJV)

The current conditions happening around the globe, surely points to the reality that we are living in the last days.  As such, Christians are faced with such challenges to our faith that we will need extraordinary strength to escape their destructive effects.  Both end-time church attendance and end-time prayer are designed by God to supply His people with the power to persevere through the extraordinary threats of the last days.  "Understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty" (2Tim. 3:1).  Peter and Jesus unite to tell us:  stay sober for the sake of prayer in order to make it through these difficulties.

One of the prayers the Lord Jesus taught us to pray is, "Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" (Matt. 6:10).  There are layers of meaning in this request, just as there are layers of meaning in the coming of the kingdom.  The kingdom comes progressively as the saving reign of Christ is established in the hearts of more and more people (Rom. 5:21; 14:17; 1 Cor. 4:20; Col. 1:13).  But the ultimate fulfillment of "Your kingdom come" is the establishment of Christ's kingdom in the new heavens and the new earth (1 Cor. 15:24; 2 Tim. 4:1).

So as we pray for the kingdom to come, we are praying that God will not only establish His reign in our own hearts ever more fully, but would also advance His saving work in evangelism and world missions, and that He would bring history to a climax in the coming of Jesus.  Hence our end-time prayers include the prayer for "the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest" (Matt. 9:38), and that He wrap up history absolutely and come:  "Our Lord, come!" (maranatha, 1 Cor. 16:22(. "Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!" (Rev. 22:20).

Adapted from:  https://dailywalkdevotion.com/god-will-show-his-greatness/