God's Will ....and, Your Will

[3AM]

In order to know God's will.....you must first know God.

Do you know what it means to set aside prime time, each day, to further a relationship with Him ?

Do you know what it means to just talk with HIM, just for the sake of talking....even when you don't need anything from HIM, BUT Himself ?

Do you know what it means to to listen to HIM, speaking to you, thru the Bible ?

Have you experienced, as the dsiciples did, to have your heart burn within you, as HE reveals HIMSELF to you thru the Bible, you wanting to learn as much as humanly possible about HOW God thinks, and acts ?

Are you on speaking terms with God, each and every day ?

It is NOT enough to know about God....YOU MUST KNOW GOD !!!

#1.) The first step in seeking to know the will of God in your life...is to have no will of your own, in any given matter.

If your will is in control, it will be of no value to you to know the will of God, for you won't be willing to accept it, anyway.

Your own will must be in the control of God, before a revelation of His will for you can be accepted, and appreciated.

What does it mean to have no will of your own ?

Suppose you are trying to decide whom to marry, or what job to accept.

Does having no will of your own mean you have no preference in the matter ?

Does having no will of your own make you a marshmellow, with no thought or desire about what you want ?

Having no will of your own does not...mean that you have no preference.

Jesus has a pererence in the Garden of Gethsemane, when HE prayed, "Not my will but thine be done".(Luke 22:42)
He would have prefered to escape....the agonies of the Garden, the humiliation of public trial, the horrors of the Cross.

He had a preference.
He prayed 3 times, to be let out of it !

BUT, greater than His personal perference, was His committment to bring Salvation to this world, to cooperate with His Father, in the work of redemption.

Therefore in spite of His persoanl perference, HE could say: "I came down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of HIM who sent me".(John 6:38)

SO, it is one thing to have a preference, its another thing to be so totally surrendered to whatever God's will for you might be ,that as soon as HIS will is revealed, you're willing to do it.

To have no will of your own means to have as your first pirority to accept His will, as soon as His will is revealed to you.......you accept it.....and, cherish it......and, your own preferences is surrendered.

1 Corinthians  6:19   What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own ? 
  6:20   For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 


Whenever someone misses the Lord's guidance in their life, it is usually comes as a result of missing it on the first step.......having no will of your own on any given matter.

BUT, it is impossible to come to the place of having no will of your own, apart from a personal relationship with Christ.

ONLY His power and control in your  life, can bring you to a point of genuine surrender to His will.

Matthew 7:21  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.  

[SpiritHappy]

Powerful message!! .. right on target.

It is amazing that surrender is something Jesus said is required to be a follower of his but modern christianity in so many ways has lost this important teaching.

Thanks for the spirit filled post!

[kristinaf]

 ::clappingoverhead::Thanks for the wake-up call.  It was a personal wake-up call for me.  God speaking thru you directly to me.  He is all-knowing and knows just how to reach us....this is another ex. of that. 

[HRoberson]

In order to know God's will.....you must first know God.

That is right on.

This calling we share is more than just "doing the right thing." It is doing the right thing because we understand God; because we join with Him in reconciling Creation to Him.

[thewanderingpoet]

Hi, Brothers and Sisters: I find that often God's will and our will is often far apart and do not coincide; do you not often find that to be true yourself? I would even venture further to say that often God's will and our will collide, and in the long run God fares better than we in that collision. Before I say anything else I would like to give a definition of "will " based on the Greek New Testament text; The word is "Thelema", pronounced, thel-ay-mah, and means a wish, a purpose, a choice, an inclination, a desire, and most of all a determination.  The Lord Jesus said we should do the will or desire of the Father in heaven, but like many other things it is not always easy to do; I have often said walking with the Lord is easy to say, but extremely hard to do.  We may say we walk in the Lord Jesus' footsteps , and do his will and the will of the Father, but when they examine us will they find that to be the case?  The Lord Jesus and his apostles, and all the holy ones of the first century did the will of the Father and paid a heavy price; If it came down to it do we value God's will to that extent to pay the ultimate price as well?

[johntwayne]

With the exception of Calvinism, the ultimate choice of the will to love God and one's fellow man is the testing stone of salvation. The opposite choice is selfishness which follows one's own will.

[Elaine]

3am

To the original questions in the first post. Yes.

Elaine

[Bonnie]

Love your post, 3AM.  It never hurts to be reminded of our duties to God.  We must know Him in order to know what he wants from us. His character revealed both in the OT and the NT shows us His Will that we might lead pleasing lives for Him. If we love Him we will love His ways and His commandments. We can't live unto ourselves any longer.

God Bless

[Corbley]

In our Christian walk...It is very easy to do the will of God,  when we speak of Love, and compassion.

But doing HIS will at the sacrifice of our own desires  THAT is the challange and when most will fail to do HIS will
and most will choose to serve the flesh.