We've somehow believed God would come in and change things, because He knows everything occurring in this world. We forget that God has bound Himself by His Word and will never violate it, even for us. God Himself must abide by His Own Words or all is lost. If His Word isn't reliable and steadfast, then nothing is.
We recognize that there are an abundance of things happening here on earth, that are not God's will. We are supposed to know God's will when we pray, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." What is His will in heaven? Do we know? Jesus knew the will of the Father and conducted Himself accordingly. Jesus said in John 6:38 (Amplified), "For I have come down from heaven not to do My Own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me." If we will study the life of Jesus, then we can better know the will of the Father, along with the lawful things of heaven.
We struggle with doubt and unbelief over what is God's will on this earth. We struggle over who is to be saved or not be saved, even today. John 3:16 (Amplified) is probably the most known and quoted in the entire New Testament, saying, "For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He (even) gave up His Only begotten (unique) Son, So that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal life."
God's will is exemplified in 1Timothy 2:3-4 (Amplified) which says, "For such (praying) is good and right, and (it is) pleasing and acceptable (lawful in heaven) to God our Savior Who wishes all men to be saved and precisely and correctly the (divine) Truth." According to this scripture, we know it's God's will for all men to be saved. We know that not everyone is saved and that many have died without know Jesus as their Savior. Simply praying "If it be Your will God" doesn't seem to work. We must know how to pray, "Thy will be done," without just saying "Thy will be done."
If Jesus came to do the will of the Father, then we should be able to watch what Jesus did and know what what the Father's will is. Our not seeing the things we pray being done, doesn't mean it isn't God's will. We need to know if it's God's will and then move in faith to that knowledge. The Law of sin and death still works in this earth, however, we abide in a Higher Law.
We've allowed ourselves to be held down from what God has called us to be, by the things man has told us we are. Many years ago, many said, "If God wanted us to fly, then we've have wings." They laughed and scoffed at the Wright Brothers, because they dreamed higher than other men. Flying is today's most common means of travel. There is, and was then, the Law of gravity that still works on earth, but we have found other laws that supersede that law. The laws of lift and thrust supersede the Law of gravity.
We didn't do away with the Law of gravity, but it was superseded by a higher law. We didn't do away with the Law of sin and death, but through Jesus, it was superseded with a Higher Law, the Law of the Spirit of Life. The Laws of the Kingdom supersede the natural laws governing the earth. We can rise above these natural laws through Jesus, by seeking after the knowledge of the Kingdom of heaven. There will be those who scoff and make fun of those who dare to fly, like they did with the Wright Brothers, but people still fly.
God says in Psalm 107:20 (Amplified) that "He sends His Word and heals them and rescues them from the pit and destruction." Jesus came, "Not to do His will, but the Father's will." Does the Law of the Kingdom still work today? Many in the Church, say that the Word isn't "for us today." We've let others determine God's will, instead of His Word, and have made the Word of no effect in our lives. If this was God's will when Jesus was here and Jesus and God's Word are One, then is this not still God's will? We feel humble for not wanting to pray and do what we think is not God's will, instead of learning what His will is and then doing it. It sounds religious and humble, but it's simply not seeking what is His will.
We've all heard, "Yes, but that was Jesus" when talking about miracles and healing, instead of realizing that Jesus was God's will to be "done here as it is in heaven." If it was true when Jesus prayed, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," then can we expect to see hospitals, institutions and nursing homes in heaven? Can we expect to see homeless children, sick, hungry and depraved people in heaven? We both know that what we see here is not God's will for this earth.
We are to be Ambassadors for Christ and represent God's Kingdom here on earth. Is it any wonder that people do not "know" our God? We were never meant to be born-again and then stay the way we used to be before being born-again. We are a super-natural people, who are made in His Image and Likeness. We are in this world, but are not of it and we are called to live in the new Laws that govern heaven, the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. God's Law takes precedence over the Law of sin and death. We're not only to live by this Law, but we're to establish the Law of the Spirit of Life among those who are under the Law of sin and death. We're to use the the Spirit of Life to break the Laws binding men on this earth.
When Jesus walked on earth as a Spirit filled Man, He operated in this Higher Law consistently. He knew the heart and will of the Father and walked it out. We can watch Jesus' ministry here on earth and know what God's will is for mankind. If it was God's will then, then it's still His will today. Jesus said to the people in Matthew 6:33 (Amplified), "But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His Kingdom and His righteousness (which is Jesus as your righteousness) (His way of doing and being right) and then all these things taken together will be given you besides."
God has a way of doing and being right. Jesus told us to "Seek these things first of all." We must return to the Truth in His Word and find out what His way is. We serve a God of the impossible and then limit Him with our own doubt. We see many things in today's life, that were viewed as "impossible" or "like the Jetsons," not too long ago. Think of the buildings, the computers, cell phones, cars that drive themselves, Siri speaking with you from an ipad and never carrying cash, along with so many amazing things. Mankind has stepped into the realm of the impossible, by doing things other say could never be done. We are the Church, and we belong to the God of the impossible, but have remained in the realm of the natural.
What can man do that God cannot? What can we accomplish that God cannot? Most of the technology we see and use today, didn't exist only a few years ago. Most of this technology was believed to be fantasy and foolishness, only a few years ago. But, here we stand...the new creation of God...the Church...the Body of Christ and we're stuck in time by our own limitations.
Genesis 11:6 (Amplified) says, "And the Lord said, behold, they are one people and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and now nothing they have imagined they can do will be impossible for them." God said this about natural men, who were in opposition to Him. What is possible for those of us who are new creation people, with Him? do we need to imagine ourselves in a different light? If the unsaved can do all they imagine, then what should the saved people be imagining? How do we see ourselves? Should we see ourselves after the Laws of sin and death that used to govern us or after the Laws that now govern us? Do we see ourselves the way our Father sees us or the way the world says we are?
Do we see ourselves as healed and as those who heal? Or, do we see ourselves as the sick and destitute, who are unable to help others? Jesus wasn't being proud and arrogant when He said that, When you see Me, you have seen the Father." He was being truthful and simple in His statement. Today, though, we still won't say that through Jesus, we're righteous. Romans 6:10-12 (Amplified) says, "For by the death He died, He died to sin (ending His relation to it) once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God (in unbroken fellowship with Him)." Verses11-12 go on, "Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broke, but alive to God (living in unbroken fellowship with Him) in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore rule as king in your mortal (short lived perishable) bodies, to make you yield to its cravings and be subject to its lusts and evil passions."
Only sin (past or present) can prevent you from walking in fellowship with our Heavenly Father. the flesh will constantly remind you of who you were, to keep you from knowing who you are. This "imagining" will stop you from doing what you can imagine in your spirit. Do not allow this to happen. You're under a New Law of Life in Christ Jesus and free from the old Law of sin and death. The old Law is still active in your flesh to remind you of those who've gone before you and the old life you had before. Silence the old law of the flesh, by the Law of Life in Christ Jesus and don't be under the limitations of the doubters. Simply because someone says, "You can't fly," doesn't mean you can't. Jesus didn't heal everyone on the planet, but only those He could reach. He was Only One Man, in one place, at one time, but as the Body of Christ, we can cover much more territory than He did in One human Body.
It's going to require people who dare to image they are who God said they are, in order to rise above the condemnation of the flesh and prove the impossible. God says, "All things are possible for those who believe." This is the time for the new creation people to do what the old creation didn't do. We're to bring the Father's will to bear upon this earth once again, by His Word and His Spirit. God wants to do all things through you. Ephesians 2:6-7 (Amplified) says, "And He raised us up together with Him and He made us sit down together (giving us joint seating with Him) in the heavenly sphere (by virtue of our being) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One)." Verse 7says, "He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) in (His) kindness and good of heart toward us in Christ Jesus." Ephesians 3:10 -11(Amplified) says, "(The purpose is) that through the Church the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known to the angelic rulers and authorities (principalities and powers) in the heaven sphere. This is in accordance with the terms of the eternal and timeless purpose which He has realized and carried into effect in (the Person of) Christ Jesus our Lord."
The New Creation.
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