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2024-04-21 21:55:22Hey everyone and welcome to Refinery Life Australia.
The Master’s recipe for Effective Praying is the theme for the next few Sunday's and is a study of the petitions found in the Lord’s prayer.
Today we are discussing, Thy Will Be Done.
Text
Matthew 6:10 NKJV
10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
Scripture Reading
Luke 22:39-46 NKJV
The Prayer in the Garden
39 Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him.
40 When He came to the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
41 And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed,
42 saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.”
43 Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him.
44 And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
45 When He rose up from prayer, and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow.
46 Then He said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.”
Prayer
Father, we thank You for adopting us as your children.
With eyes wide open to Your mercies, we come to dedicate ourselves to you afresh.
Help us to use our talents and testimony that others may know Christ.
As be bring our tithes and offerings, we pray Your blessings upon them.
Help us meet the expenses of the ministry of this church and engage in ministries to the outer most ends of the earth.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
Introduction.
“It is God’s will.”
These words are often used to interpret the tragedies of life.
In legal language, “an act of God” is used to explain the great catastrophes that bring so much suffering and ruin.
Yet Jesus instructed us to pray, “Thy will be done.”
Does that mean that we are praying for catastrophes and tragedies to fall upon us?
Such tragic events are not what we find associated with God’s will in the Bible.
God wills to create a world, to create humans, to send His Son, to redeem humans.
These things are an expression of God’s eternal purpose and will be accomplished, so there is really no need for us to pray for the accomplishment of them.
But God’s will also includes His commands and His plan for our day to day lives.
Thus we need to pray that His will might be done in our lives and in the lives of others.
The concern of this particular petition is how we are to do God’s will.
Since His will is to be done “on earth as it is in heaven,” we are to look to heaven for our pattern of response.
Even though we do not know as much about heaven as we would like to know, we do know enough to give us some helpful instructions at this point.
- **Submissively. **
There is only one Lord in heaven.
Every creature bows before Him in worship, adoration, and submission.
In Isaiah six, Isaiah records that he saw angelic beings with six wings.
Two of their wings were used to fly with the speed to carry out God’s every wish, and two we used to cover their faces as an act of reverence in His presence.
In the end time revelation of Jesus Christ, John saw the saints bowing before God and casting their crowns at His feet.
John describe the saints as those who “serve Him day and night.”
He is absolute Lord over everything there, and everyone is completely submissive to His will.
Sometimes we obey without actually being submissive.
A little boy once expressed this thought eloquently to his mother when she made him sit in the corner as a form of discipline.
He didn't like it, so he tried to stand up.
But she was firm and insisted that he be seated.
As he took his seat, he replied, “I may be sitting on the outside, but I'm still standing on the inside.”
She could make him respond physically, but she could not make him submissive in the spirit.
Some of us respond to God's will in this way.
We give in to the insistence of God, but we do not really submit to him as Lord.
Thus petition “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven is a place that we would have the very spirit of heaven as we approach God's will.
Our attitude and doing God's will is just as important as the act itself.
2. Completely.
Completely means not selectively.
In heaven God's will is done completely.
The angels are not selective in their obedience to God's will.
Whatever God says, they do.
Those who refused to give the Lord God complete obedience and chose to exercise their own will in opposition to his will have been excluded from heaven.
They are no longer privileged to enter into God's presence.
Jesus teaches us to pray that God's will maybe done in our lives and in our world.
We have a tendency to be selective in our response to God's will.
We pick which of His precepts will guide us.
For example, a man may choose to follow the Lord's will in attending public worship, but he may choose to ignore God's will when it comes to tithing.
Another man may be very careful for the follow the Lord's will for stewardship.
He may be more careful than a Pharisee when it comes to calculating his tithes and offerings, but he may ignore the Lord's will for his marriage and instead follow the last of the flesh.
In heaven it is never so!
There God's will is done completely.
Completely means not partially.
We may also be partial in our obedience.
We may reserve the right to determine exactly how far we will go in our response to God's will.
But partial obedience is actually disobedience.
Whatever God says, we must do.
3. Joyfully.
Joyfully like the angels.
Joy is one of the most obvious marks of the heavenly response.
Scripture tells us that the angels sing as they do the will of the Father in heaven.
We must be joyful like the Son.
In Psalm 40:8, we read, “I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart.”
Jesus did not do the father's wheel out of a sense of duty, but rather with great delight.
In John 4:34 Jesus said, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.”
He found real joy in doing the will of his father.
It was food for His spirit.
Our response to the will of God will be one of our first concerns when we before Him.
We need to be concerned that we know his will fully and do it joyfully.
4. Constantly.
We have no record of ever being a need for revival in heaven.
No Angel ever waivers in his devotion to God's will.
No Angel ever withdraws his support from the Lord's program.
Day after day he does whatever God commands.
Millennia pass by and angels still obey with the same joy and delight, doing whatever task God assigns them.
Our Lord Jesus also provides us with a beautiful example.
He allowed nothing to turn him from doing the Fathers will.
With a willing heart and delight in His God, He went all the way to the cross.
Conclusion.
Are you giving consideration to God's will in your life?
It should be one of your first considerations when you come to pray.
It is more important that you know and do God's will and that you have your daily bread.
God makes this a matter of first concern.
Will you?
Until next time
Stay in the Blessings
Until next time
Stay in the Blessings
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