Friday, November 20, 2020

PT-2 "Right Understanding of God's Will" (Matt. 6:10b)

 

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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