Saturday, April 22, 2017

His Will, His Path, His Way.

Psa 25:4  Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. 
Psa 25:5  Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

Col 1:9  For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding

Filled with the KNOWLEDGE of HIS WILL in ALL WISDOM and SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING.

Truly this is our desire, isn't it? As Christ followers we desire to have the knowledge of our Savior's will.  So often we manipulate our lives by telling ourselves we are following God's will, when in fact we have exerted our own will over and over and pretended that it's God's.

Col 4:12  …, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. 

Here we have one laboring in prayer for another- the prayer being that one stands perfect and complete in ALL THE WILL OF GOD.

Psa 143:10  Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. 

Taught to do the WILL of God. We need this teaching!

Rom 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 

The will of God is a TRANSFORMED RENEWING of our MINDS- not a mind conformed to this world.

Why can't our mind be conformed to this world? Because our Savior came preaching what? A new world! Our Savior came preaching SALVATION! Salvation from our unrenewed minds filled with living in the present world, unconcerned for the future, the eternal future. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph all these lived with the hope for a future, they did not live with the hope of this world. They knew this world would not give them the things of God, their hope was in the promise afar off. When Jesus came He made that afar off promise a triumphant reality so ALL human beings regardless of birthright would have hope in eternal salvation, hope in that heavenly kingdom to come. Our minds need transforming from conformity to this world! We need the will of God in our lives as a reality, not as an offhanded belief tucked away that we pull out from time to time to think about, meanwhile we conform to the world.  We need the REALITY of SALVATION in our lives! The will of God- good, acceptable, perfect, we need this!

Eph 5:17  Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. 

1Th 5:18  In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 

Eph 6:6  Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; 
Eph 6:7  With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men

Mat 7:21  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 

Do we realize how important it is to do the will of God?!

Mat 12:50  For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. 

Heb 10:36  For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 

Heb 13:20  Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 
Heb 13:21  Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 

1Pe 2:15  For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 
1Pe 2:16  As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 
1Pe 2:17  Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. 
1Pe 2:18  Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. 
1Pe 2:19  For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. 
1Pe 2:20  For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. 
1Pe 2:21  For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 
1Pe 2:22  Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 
1Pe 2:23  Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: 
1Pe 2:24  Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. 
1Pe 2:25  For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. 

1Pe 4:1  Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 
1Pe 4:2  That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 

1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 
1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 
1Jn 2:17  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 

Psa 25:8  Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. 
Psa 25:9  The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. 
Psa 25:10  All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. 

Psa 119:5  O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 
Psa 119:6  Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. 
Psa 119:7  I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. 

Psa 139:23  Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 
Psa 139:24  And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. 

Mat 28:20  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. 

1Jn 2:27  But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. 

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