SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/20/2020 10:27 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “Right
Understanding of God’s Will”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
6:10b
Message of the verse: “Your will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.”
I
believe that the following statement is a very important one for us to look at
and to think about as MacArthur writes “Jesus knew the end from the beginning,
but He did not accept the situation as inevitable or irresistible
(appealing). He preached against sin and
He acted against sin. When His Father’s
house was profaned, ‘He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the
temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the
moneychangers, and overturned their tables; and to those who were selling the
doves He said, ‘Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a house
of merchandise’’ (John 2:14-16; cf. Matt. 21:12-13).
“To pray for God’s will to be
done on earth is to rebel against the idea, heard today even among
evangelicals, that virtually every wicked, corrupt things that we do or that is done to us is somehow God’s
holy will and should be accepted from His hand with thanksgiving. Nothing wicked or sinful comes from the hand
of God, but only from the hand of Satan.
To pray for righteousness is to pray against wickedness. To pray for God’s will to be done is to pray
for Satan’s will to be undone.”
I
mentioned in my SD a couple of days ago that as I began this study of what is commonly
called “The Lord’s Prayer,” that I wanted to learn how to pray for what is
going on in our country, and so I have listed to many conservative news
programs to find out that what happened in our election was filled with fraud and
cheating, more than any other election.
I do not believe that it is in the will of God for our country to be
turned into a socialist society, and I know that it is not in God’s will to
have a party in there who wants to make abortion a law of the land, and so my
prayer is that God will cause Satan’s will to be undone as we have seen in the
paragraph above.
David
cried “Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered; and let those who hate Him
flee before Him’ in Psalm 68:1. This
prayer of David certainly is in the will of God. Another prayer request that we see is from
those who had been killed for the cause of Christ in the tribulation period and
is one of the seal judgments found in Revelation 6:10 where we read “How long,
O Lord, holy and true, wilt Thou refrain from judging and avenging our blood on
those who dwell on the earth?” I believe
that in earth years that it would take God a little more than three years to do
this and that is why He tells them to wait “And there was given to each of them
a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while
longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who
were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also” (Rev.
6:11). We all hate to wait, but I
suppose that waiting helps to bring about our character as we grow in
Christ. Joseph is a wonderful example of
this.
How
do we pray rightly? We pray in faith,
believing that God will hear and answer our prayers. What would you say is the greatest hindrance
to prayer? It is to not lack of being the right technique, or the lack of
biblical knowledge, or even having the lack of enthusiasm for God’s work, but
to lack faith. “We simply do not pray
with the expectation that our prayers will make a difference in our lives, in
other people’s lives, in the church or in the world.”
I
am going to quote the first sentence in a paragraph from MacArthur’s commentary
and then Lord willing we will pick up on what he is talking about
tomorrow. “There are three distinct aspects of God’s will as He
reveals it to us in His Word.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: It certainly is a desire of mine to
understand prayer better, and to be able to pray in faith, knowing that my
prayers will mean something to me, to others that I pray for in my family, and
in my church, and those who I pray will be saved in the future.
My Steps of Faith for Today: To continue to learn more about prayer.
11/20/2020
10:56 AM
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