Colossi ans 1:9-10 (Amplified) tells us, "For this reason we also, from the day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray and make special request for you, asking that you may be filled with the full, deep, and clear knowledge of His will in all Spiritual Wisdom, in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God, and in understanding and discernment of Spiritual things That you may walk, lived and conduct yourselves in manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him and desiring to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing and increasing in an by the knowledge of God, with fuller and deeper and clearer insight, acquaintance and recognition."
In the above scripture, Paul writes about our being filled with the knowledge of God's will and ways, so we may walk in a way and manner that is worthy and pleasing to Him. When we don't understand God's will and ways, we find ourselves guessing at what His will and ways are. It's difficult to walk in a manner that is pleasing to someone, when you don't know what will please them. In Colossi ans 1:4 (Amplified) Paul tells us what prompted him to write this exhortation to the Christians in Colossi, saying, "For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, the leaning of your entire human personality on Him in absolute trust and confidence in His power, Wisdom, and Goodness, and of the Love which you have and show for all the saints (God's consecrated ones)."
It was the way these Christians accepted the Father by faith in His ways and His will, that inspired Paul's prayer from Hebrews 11:6 (Amplified), "But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come hear to God must necessarily believe that God exists and that He is the Rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him out." Jesus instructed His followers in Matthew 6:33 (Amplified), "But seek (aim at and strive after), first of all His Kingdom and is righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides."
So, we know what pleases the Father. It's those who will continue in their faith in Him, to take them higher into His will and Wisdom, in order to learn how to walk in His Kingdom in a greater and growing faith. We've somehow limited the maturing of our faith, to after we leave this planet and arrive in the Father's Heavenly Kingdom. The Father desires that we, by faith, apply this Kingdom principals and bring them to bear on earth. Our faith is supposed to be something that grows, along with our growing trust in Him, that will take us higher in His ways.
When we don't know if it's God's will for us to walk in His Super-natural ability today, then it's difficult to obtain faith to reach out for it. We read God's Last Will and Testament in Galatians 3:15-16 (Amplified), which says, "To speak in terms of human relations, brethren, if even a man makes a Last Will and Testament (a merely human covenant) no one sets it aside or makes it void or adds to it, when once it has been drawn up and signed, ratified, confirmed. Now the covenant (agreements) were decreed and made to Abraham and his Seed, his Offspring, his Heir." God doesn't say, "And to his Seeds, descendants or Heirs," as if referring to many persons, but He said, "To your Seed, your Descendant and your Heir, which obviously refers to One Individual Who is none other than Christ, the Messiah. Paul writes to the Church in Romans 8:17 (Amplified), "And if we are His children, then we are His Heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His Glory."
God's will was and is, a written Will that we call The New Testament. It's more valid and concrete than any human will that has ever been made by mankind. This will is God's will. He gave us all that Jesus inherited when He returned to the Father, by His will. He didn't write one will and have a different will. God's written will is HIS WILL and it doesn't change from one of His children to another or from one time to another. This is God's will for us today. Jesus didn't inherit all the sickness, disease, hardship, misery and Curse that came upon earth and mankind when Adam fell, but He inherited the Blessing and favor of God, as well as all of the son-ship rights of the Father.
I cannot imagine the Father leaving us a cancer or disease, in His will. When a person leaves a will for their loved ones, that person leaves everything he or she worked for and gathered during a lifetime, in order to bless those loved ones. Would our Heavenly Father bequeath His children the Curse that came upon mankind through Adam's transgression? Or would He bequeath to His children, the Blessing that came upon us through Abraham, by faith in Jesus? This is God's will.
Abraham wasn't in Heaven, but he was living on earth when God made covenant with Him, through Jesus. We inherited the Blessings of eternal Life with the Father in Heaven, as well as the earthly Blessing that was upon Abraham while he was here on earth. Now, we've been blessed in both Heaven and earth, in Jesus. The written will of God doesn't differ from our being able to know God's will. God didn't make two different wills, but one will. We must know God's will, in order to walk in it here in Jesus Christ our Lord.
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