Thursday 26 March 2020

The Will Of God

I have found..., a man after Mine own heart, which shall fulfil all My will. 
Acts 13:22

The Path Of God's Will:

Hebrews 10:9 “Then He said,'Lo, I come to do Thy will, O God.'”  Our reason for living.

John 4:34 “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work.”  Our food to live on.  

Matthew 12:50 “For whosoever shall do the will of My Father which is in heaven, the same is My brother, and sister, and mother.”  Our society of believers.

Matthew 6:10 “Thy will be done.”  Our common language – spoken in prayer and communication.

Psalms 119:54 “Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.”  
Psalms 40:8 “I delight to do Thy will, O my God:  yea, Thy law is within my heart.”   “And knowest His will...being instructed out of the law”. Romans 2:18
The will of God is expressed in the precepts of His holy law, and the principles of this law are the principles of heaven. MB 109  Our praise overflows from a heart responding to His love as we meditate on the law of God. 

Psalms 143:10 “Teach me to do Thy will; for Thou art my God.”  Our true education. 

1 John 5:14 “And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us.”  Our requests will be heard.

1 John 2:17 “He that doeth the will of God abideth forever.”  Our future.

Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone 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.”  Our commitment to do His will.

The ways to know and to follow “the will of God” - 

Scriptures are the authoritative and infallible...
Converted soul will know…
Christ binds mans will to...
Yoke is the law which is…
Expressed in His law...
No excuse for not knowing or understanding...
Firm determination to do…at all times and in all places
Great law of love binds man's heart to...
Ignorance of…displeases Him
Imparted to the soul by communication with Him...
A life of usefulness follows those who do…
Must be paramount...
Perfect conformity to…to be our highest aim.
Search continually to know and do...
Wait and be submissive to...
Yielding of self to…requires a struggle.
Man's will must die and become...
Revealed in-
His providential workings
The Spirit's appeals
The Word
Prayer
Meditation
Christ in you will do…


Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. James 4:13-16


Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of Me,) to do Thy will, O God. Hebrews 10:7

Christ has come and has set the example for us. As we allow Him to live His life in us moment by moment we will do the will of God.