![]() He is the one who made His will simple and easy for us to understand by sending Jesus into the world. He is the one whose voice says, "How dare you pray a prayer like that? Do you think you are Jesus or something? You don't know God's will." Our God is not a God of confusion. ![]() The enemy is the one who over-complicates things. The devil's whole game plan is to lie and confuse us. We either don't feel prepared and equipped to carry it out, or we are simply afraid of the ridicule and persecution that may come if we do. Empowered Him to walk that way, to dwell within each one of us.Sometimes sitting back and claiming that we don't know His will is simply procrastination or fear. He then sent the Holy Spirit, the very same spirit that lived in Jesus and empowered Him. He verbally instructed them to carry it out and gave them the authority to do so. Jesus came to this earth, walked it out, showed his followers how to do it. However, every day, the practical scale for how we are to live our lives, our Father's will has been revealed. God Is still sovereign, and His ultimate plan will come to fruition no matter what. For example, no one knows the day or the hour when Jesus will return. That may be true on a high level and a macro scale. I believe that many people have been deceived into believing that we are always supposed to sit back and wait for the will of the Father to be revealed. Furthermore, Jesus has given us the authority to carry it out (Matthew 28: 18-19, Luke 10:19). He has shown it to us plain as day in His Son Jesus Christ. My assertion is that we already know the will of the Father. It is a potentially controversial assertion, but it demands major repentance and change if it is true. Therefore, use us to make that happen! Use your people to bring heaven to earth!"I am going to make an assertion. I know that this is not the way that it is in heaven! I know that you want to usher heaven into our earthly existence. It begins to sound more like, "Father, I know that it is not your will for all of this pain, brokenness, sin, and destruction to exist all around us. If the above assumption is true, and Jesus' life really did reveal to us our Father's will, then we will start to read Matthew 6:10 a little differently. Jesus came and painted us a picture of what it looks like for "God's kingdom to come and God's will to be done on earth just as in heaven" (Matthew 6:10). When Jesus is healing the sick, restoring sight to the blind, and setting the captives free, He is indeed revealing to us the will of His Father. In John 5:19 NKJV when Jesus says, "I only do what I see my Father doing," He is telling us that His actions reveal the will of God. You see, I now make the assumption that Jesus' life was the perfect representation of the Father's will. Now, when I read Matthew 6, I read it a little differently. If I am being honest, up until recently, this is how I interpreted this scripture and how I operated in my walk with God. Recently, however, my thought process has been challenged. It's as if we don't know His will, and by stating, "Your will be done," we are simply acknowledging that we will accept whatever God's will is whenever He chooses to reveal it. Some would interpret, "Your will be done", as if we should sit back and wait for God's will to take form. For example, since he doesn't profess to know God's will for his wife, this man's prayer may have sounded something more like, "Lord, if it is your will, please heal my wife."Is that really how Jesus was leading us to pray in Matthew 6? Some would probably argue that the answer is yes. Matthew 6:10 says, "Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." The man that I prayed with at work might be interpreting this verse in a way that I believe many people interpret it today as if we are completely aloof to God's will. That verse is Matthew 6:10 KJV, and it is found within a section of scripture often entitled, "The Lord's Prayer". Let's start with the verse that so many Christians point to when talking about God's will. Is God's will a mystery, or is it something that He has plainly revealed to us? I am not going to pray as if it is God's will to heal my wife, because it may not be God's will for her to be healed." This interaction motivated me to write this week about a somewhat controversial topic. But he believe it would be in God's way and in a His timing.The man's words, coupled with his tone and body language, came across to me as, "I don't assume that I know the will of God. He proceeded to tell me how he was a Christian and he believed that God would answer our prayers. When I had finished, the man looked both touched and a bit concerned. During the prayer, I prayed distinctly and specifically for the ailments in his wife's body to be healed. The man was telling me about His wife who was dealing with several medical issues. I had an amazing opportunity to pray with a man at work.
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