John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share, and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing, and even favor upon favor, and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
The greatest problem with our faith and the lack of results from our faith, has come through our not understanding God's will. 1John 5:14-15 (Amplified) says, "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. And if since we positively know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know with settled and absolute knowledge, that we have granted us as our present possessions the requests made of Him."
John's statement above, written by God's Own Inspiration, is the one thing that holds back the prayer of God's children. We don't know His will. We've been like those described in James 1:7,8 (Amplified), "For being as he is, a man of two minds, hesitating, dubious, irresolute, he is unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything he thinks, feels, decides." Verse 7 says, "For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything he asks for from the Lord."
We've been in an age old struggle, trying to decide whether it's God's will to heal, Bless, speak or even move on our behalf. We've simply decided to pray, "If it be Thy will, then..." This one of the most double-minded prayers, we could pray. Though it's our sincere prayer, it's so double-minded that it's only by Grace, we get anything answered.
This kind of praying, truly denotes what being double-minded thinking is. There is no faith in what we pray like this. If it was God's will to heal someone we're praying for, then He will heal them. If it's not His will, then that person won't be healed. We don't need to put any faith in our prayers, when we pray in this double-minded way. We're really saying, "God is going to do whatever He wants and prayer is of no effect." We've relegated our prayer to some religious thing we do, in order to look like we believe.
We will never find any place, where Jesus prayer, "If it be Thy will." Jesus knew the Father's will, because He listened. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus knew that His dying was truly the only way of saving mankind, so He prayed and surrendered His will to the will of God, saying in Luke 22:42 (Amplified), "Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but always Your's be done."
Jesus didn't want to be separated from the Father, on the cross. As a Man, Jesus hated the thought of being separated from His Father, at the hands of the enemy. But, Jesus was willing to do so, if it was the will of God. There was no other time, when Jesus even hesitated to obey or know the Father's will. When the sick came before Him, Jesus healed them all, without hesitating. When the lame came before Him, without hesitation, Jesus made them whole. When those who were demon possessed were brought before Him, Jesus never faltered in knowing God's will and He set them free.
Jesus gave us the key to knowing the Father's will, when He prayed in Matthew 6:9-13 (Amplified) saying, "Praying therefore like this: 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, 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."
"Your will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven." This is the will of God, that Jesus walked out and fulfilled in His ministry. Jesus restored the sick, dying, lame, depressed and possessed back to the Father's will in Heaven. No one in Heaven is sick or tormented, in any way. This is the Father's will. Jesus brought the Kingdom will of the Father, into this earth. Jesus brought God's will in Heaven, into the earth, like it was before Adam's transgression. Sickness, disease, and frailty were never God's will, but were the result of Adam's fall in the Garden of Eden. Jesus restored God's will for those He came in contact with, during His earthly ministry.
Jesus was never undecided about what God's will is. When Jesus saw people in bondage, He knew it wasn't the way that God's Kingdom intended. We certainly don't see God's will in Heaven, here on earth. We are called to bring the Kingdom of God here. If it's not the way Heaven functions, then it's not God's will.
Jesus taught us to pray this way and to know God's will, by knowing how Heaven functions. Jesus had no problem seeing what things were not according to God's will and putting those things back in order with the Father's will. The world has taught us to believe, "You can never know what God's will is for the world and mankind." Jesus never doubted what God would do, but simply restored God's will on earth.
We've become so double-minded about what we think God's will is, that we have little faith in our prayers. I cannot find one instance, where Jesus didn't perform God's will in His ministry. Jesus never turned any person away. Jesus never thought it was the Father's will to leave them in the state they came to Him in.
The things around us in today's world, is the Father's will. If these things are God's will, then this is how Heaven will be for eternity, because, "Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven." You know this isn't what Heaven's like. The things we're witnessing are not God's will. God isn't the One Who is the Source of our problems. He is the Answer to our problems. That is His will.
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