Praying for the will of God

1 John 5:14&15 says,

 “ This is the confidence we have in approaching God; that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us -whatever we ask –we know that we have what we asked of him.”

  So what is the will of God? If we can know that God will answer prayers we pray according to his will than shouldn’t we pray those prayers? If we are going to pray the will of God we need to know the will of God.

  Romans 12:2 says, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is –his good and pleasing and perfect will.”

  When we remove ourselves from the world, when we steer away from the way the world thinks and get back to what God says we can find Gods will. Go isn’t hiding his will from us the world is. We let ourselves get so wrapped up in this world that we don’t take time to see Gods will right in front of us. We get absorbed in what is the message of the world that we fail to see the message of God.

  So Gods message…

(1 Thes. 4:3) God’s will is that we would be Sanctified. God wants us to be made holy. It is not part of his plan that we have the crime and war that we have today. It is not Gods will that the have hate and anger toward our brothers. Gods will is that we be like Christ; perfect, holy, sinless. Actually it is Gods will that everyone have eternal life. (John 6:40)

 Gods message is so much different from what the world would tell us. The world tells us that we are the most important and that we should not stop till we are happy. God tells us (1 Thes 5:18) it is his will that we be thankful in every circumstance. God wants us to be happy with what we have and not always be wanting more. It is also God’s will that we respect those who lovingly correct and warn us ( 1 Thes 5:12). The world will tell you that you are your own boss and no one was the right to tell you, you are wrong. It is becoming very apparent why we must transform our minds to know the will for God. God’s will is a totally different thought process than what our minds have been taught to think.

  1 Thes. 5:21 & 22 talk more about Gods will. Verse 21 says in the beginning that we should test every thing. We should find out for ourselves what is true or not by close examination. We need to take what we hear and put it against scripture and against everyday life and see if it holds true. The last part of verse 21 and verse 22 say then to hold or cling to the good and avoid the evil. So in our testing we will find what is the truth and what is evil, and we have a responsibility then to respond according to what we find. What we find then is that in our testing we have uncovered more of the will of God. God is not hiding from us but he wants us to dig into what he says and not simply hope to stumble over his will.

It is God will that we pray continually ( 1 Thes.5:17). It is Gods will that we suppress judgmental and cynical talk (1 Pet.2:15). The bible says we do that simply be doing what is good. We often think that just one person cant make that big of a difference in something like gossip but in our refusal to listen in or add our own little tidbit we can actually stop it all together. We have a huge influence on the people around us. We just have to be willing to be different.

  So when we seek for Gods will he will reveal it to us. When we know Gods will we can pray for Gods will. When we pray for Gods will he will do it. I pray that God would sanctify me. I pray that I would continue to test and prove what is his good pleasing and perfect will. I pray that God would give me a heart for the weak and the timid. I pray that God would teach me to care about the people around me and that I would take the time for them (1 Thes 5:14).  

Hebrews 10:36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.

i got my wisdom teeth pulled
that was lovely not
actualy the dentist gave me a mirror and i watched
it was awesome
not i am trying to eat and not sleep but i am kind of  sleepy
so whatever
 

so latley i have been feeling kind of down because i cant feel the Holy Spirit in me and i havent heard God speaking to me. So this morning i got up and was just going to read my bible like normal but i decided to just write in my prayer journal instead. I had been talking to Bernadette last night about prophsy and i told her i would pray and ask God for a verse for her. So i was doing that and i was praying about a time when i was in L.A and i had goten a word that i would be able to do anything thru Christ. That i would be able to pray for someone to be healed and it would happen and that God would give me the words to say to someone when he wanted and i would know what to say. I had also felt like God had given me Is. 61. So after that time when i was getting ready to come home i was in church the day before i left and was asking God it that was all really going to happen and i got Is. 59:21
and i knew that God was going to do what he promised. So i was praying about that and asking God if he was going to give the words and if the other things would ever come true. And as i was praying i looked down at me Bible and it was opened to a verse that a man on skid row prophsied over me and it was this "But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us." the chapter went on and as i read i felt like that was want God wanted me to give to Bern. I am totaly amazed at how God works. We think we need to try really ward to figure things out and we think we need to do this or that to help Gods word to us to come true but that isnt the case. God was it under control we just have to trust. I am reminded of a couple things one it the song "trust and obey" when we trust God we can obey him. And when we obey him we see that he never lets us down because he always keeps his promises. I am also thinking of what Hillary ALWAYS says to me " just do the next thing" i am alwasy trying to plan into the future and God always messes up my plans. Right now i have no idea what i am going to do at the end of the summer but for now i know i am just going to do the next thing and right now thats eating lunch and cleaning cabins.
Peace out
chelsie