Jesus said in John 14:7 (Amplified), "If you had known Me, had learn ed to recognize Me, you would also have known My Father. From now on, you know Him and have seen Him."
We must first know and understand Jesus, in order the understand the will of God. Jesus said, "The Father and I are One." Religion has taught that God's will is for the Church to pattern itself after the Law and the old covenant. It was always God's will to bless, prosper, and move on behalf of His people. It was more difficult to do this under the Law, because the people in the old covenant, were dead to Him in spirit. God had to rely on their outward deeds, rituals, feast observance, daily sacrifices of goats and bulls and their total obedience to the Law, in order to perform His will in their lives.
Under the new covenant, we no longer need to obey the rituals and sacrifices that those people did, in order to walk in the Blessing and Presence of God. God's will hasn't changed, only His covenant and His people have changed. It's was always God's will to bless His people, but it wasn't always His right to bless them. God's right to bless the people, depended upon the people's being in right standing with Him through sacrifices and rituals. God has now created the new creation people, in the new covenant, who are righteous and in right standing through Jesus' Sacrifice for us. This is how God has blessed us.
The only way to know the Father and His will for you, is to know Jesus and His very Own Words and works. When we see Jesus the Man, in His earthly, bodily ministry, we actually see God walking among us in a visible and tangible Truth. Hebrews 1:3 (Amplified) tells us, "Jesus is the Sole Expression of the Glory of God (the Light Being, the Out-Raying or Radiance of the Divine) and He is the Perfect Imprint and Very Image of God's nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty Word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the Divine Majesty on High."
Jesus was Emmanuel, "God with us." We can see the historical figure of the Man Jesus and determine God's will from His ministry and Presence. Jesus even said that, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me Who does the works." If will watch Jesus' earthly ministry and determine God's will from it, then we can understand the will of God for our own lives. The great debate and disagreements over whether or not it's God's will to heal, should be settle forever, when we simply watch how Jesus dealt with the sick.
Did you ever read Jesus declare, "It's God's will to leave this person or that person sick?" Did you ever read Jesus saying, "It's the Father's will for Me to leave these people sick or lame?" Did Jesus ever turn away anyone who needed Him? Of course not, because it never happened. We make up lame excuses for sickness and blame God for "putting sickness on us, in order to teach us something." I've heard some Christians proclaim, "God has chosen me, to bear this sickness for His Glory." Luke 13:11-13,16 (Amplified) says, "There was a woman there who for eighteen years had had an infirmity caused by a spirit (a demon of sickness); She was bent completely forward and utterly unable to straighten herself up or look forward. And when Jesus saw her, He called to her, Woman, you are released from your infirmity. Then He laid His hands on her, and instantly she was made straight and she recognized and thanked and praised God." Jesus says this about her sickness in Verse 16, "And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom satan has kept bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath Day?"
Satan was the one, who bound this woman. It was God's will to set her free. According to the above scripture, this woman Jesus healed was only a "daughter of Abraham." How much more will He do for a daughter or son of the Almighty God Himself? I've never read about God making anyone in the new creation family of God and in His new covenant, sick. I've never read about it being "God's will to make anyone in His new creation family, sick." Before ascending to the Father, Jesus commanded us to "Go into all the world, proclaiming the Gospel, healing the sick, and casting out demons." This Great Commission was not only for Jesus' apostles, but was for all those who believe in Him.
The new creation family of God's Household, are supposed to know what His will is for mankind. His will for your personal life or ministry, might differ from someone else's, but His over all will hasn't changed. God's will for your own personal ministry, whether it's the five-fold ministry or whatever else, is based on being in Christ Jesus and it hasn't changed. God's will for you is healing, joy, life, and prosperity. These are His will for all of His children.
1John 5:14 (Amplified) says, "And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him, we are sure that if we ask anything, make any request according to His will (in agreement with His Own plan) He listens to and hears us." This scripture indicates that we are to know God's will, before we ask for something.
We have the Teacher, the Holy Spirit, living in us, in order to reveal the Father to us. We have the Gospels and the teachings of Jesus. Jesus is our Example of how God lives in us. We have the insight of the Holy Spirit, if we will hear His Voice, according to 1John 2:20,27 (Amplified) which says, "But you have been anointed by (you hold a sacred appointment from, you have been given an unction from) the Holy One, and you know all the Truth, or you know all things." Verse 27 continues, "But as for you, the anointing, the sacred appointment, the unction, which you received from Him abides permanently in you, so then you have no need that anyone should instruct you. But just as His anointing teaches you concerning everything and is True and is no falsehood, so you must abide in Him; knit to Him, just as His anointing has taught you to do."
How do we know what God's will is and how can we walk in it? In Matthew 6:9-13 (Amplified), Jesus taught His disciples to pray in this manner, "Our Father Who is in Heaven, Hallowed (kept holy) be Your Name. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven (left, remitted, and let go of the debts, and have given up resentment against our debtors) And lead us (bring us not) into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Your's is the Kingdom and the power and the Glory forever. AMEN (so be it)."
Would Jesus have taught us to pray, "His will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven," if this wasn't the will of the Father? Ask yourself, or better yet, ask God, "How His will if for those who are in Heaven." Ask the Father if there are any sick, lame, diseased, depressed, or blind people in Heaven, where His will is ALWAYS being done. Now, ask yourself or the Father, whether this is His will for those of us on earth? This is what Jesus taught us to pray and He wouldn't have taught us to pray something, that wasn't the Father's will. James 1:5 (Amplified) says, "If any of you is deficient in Wisdom, let him ask of the Giving God, Who gives to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or fault finding, and IT WILL BE GIVEN HIM."
We must put aside religion's teachings that, "We never know what God is going to do" and discover what God says He will do, from His Word and His Holy Spirit. We must discover what God's will is for our lives and how to do God's will in the lives of others, by doing the works of God through Jesus. We would never go against God's will, but because we haven't known His will, we've violated it many times.
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