Some of us think that God’s will should be our will. Sometimes we read something in the Bible and we believe that is His will at that particular time that we read it, but we take it out of context. It is not rhema word for us now. Then we end up bitter towards God because we did not see the end the way we wanted it. That is a sign that we were believing for our will to be done. Even if we see it, the Word does not make it what we want. We have our will and His will, and they both collide. We can’t make God our puppet when we use the Word to get what we want. We end up activating premature faith and everything else gets aborted. We must know what His will is for us now, and that is the only will we must follow!
Nobody believes that we are supposed to suffer, but the Bible talks about the suffering for Christ’s sake. In this World, we will have affliction. We will suffer because we are in Him or because we are in this World. So, for example, we are suffering and believing the other scriptures to believe for us then if it’s not God’s will, we are having premature faith. Whatever God wants to be done, He will have done. But His kingdom must come first so His will can be done.
Before Jesus went to Lazarus, Jesus had to see what the Father was doing, or He would not have gone to Lazarus. He did not go when a man wanted Him to go. Nor did He go ahead of the Father either. When they saw that Lazarus died, their faith died with them, but God is a resurrecting God. When what they wanted died out, their faith died out as well. They had faith Jesus was able to heal, but when He died so did that faith, so they said, “IF you were here!!!” You see, we must trust God that all He does is for HIS Glory, always! All things are possible with God. We must not go by past experiences about what we have heard or seen but that God is able to do above all we ask or even think. So be led by the Spirit.
Everything He does is for His glory not for men's. Religion always runs by the need, but the Kingdom is run by the Spirit.
Some people will misjudge your heart because they want you to move because of their worry or their faith, but the Father is doing something else. We must obey Him. You can’t respond to the prayer line if God is doing something else. Religiosity thinks that we have so much to do when we must only do what the Father is doing. Then we never miss the mark or run out of gas.
Jesus said, “Lazarus is dead but I am glad that I was not there.” He was waiting for the sign of God to move, and the sign was the stench of Lazarus’s body. Sometimes someone has to get so stinky or in sin and darkness then God moves, then He gets the most glory. Martha is always thinking – in the flesh – planning how to have her way. But Jesus did not let people dictate to Him how and when to move. Sometimes what we want is more important to us than to God. He has a different plan. It is not about our kingdom but His. That is most of our problem.
We need to walk in His faith, not in ours. Martha’s faith was in the past and not in the present. She did not have faith for what He could do now that Lazarus was dead. Faith quit in her when He said, “Your brother will rise again,” but she thought that was on the resurrection day. Martha wanted to produce something in her own time. That was her will, but Mary went down to His feet and said exactly the same thing as Martha. Her heart condition was different. She went down and surrendered everything, her will, at His feet, at His will. The more sorrow that comes, the more joy comes in the morning. The more we stink, the more He shines.
Jesus was in a relationship with the Father, not with people’s desires. Jesus prayed because He knew what the Father was doing, and Lazarus came forth. More people came into the kingdom because of the way Jesus did it. What He did was not led by needs or wants. If He had done it a different way, He would have been in disobedience to the Spirit.
“Half & Half” will. Half is yours. Half is His. We end up mixing both of them because we want what we want. The will of God is only one: It is good. It is acceptable. It is perfect. It is His, not ours. The only will that is acceptable is the will of God. The only one that is good is His. The only one that is perfect is His. Everything that exalts above His will, bring it down, or you will be disappointed and will start thinking, “This is not working.” We become our own god. Then we lose faith in Him.
When His kingdom comes, His will is done. Why was everybody not raised from the dead like Lazarus? Because that was not the will of God for that specific moment. We must move in His faith, not ours. The only person that really knows the will of God is the Holy Spirit. When we don’t know what to pray, when we don’t know His perfect will, what should we do? Pray in tongues! Only by praying in tongues, you will pray the will of the Father. He – the Holy Spirit – that searches the hearts, knows the mind of God. The Holy Spirit makes intercession according to the will of God! Not to mine or your will, but His! We need to do what we see the Holy Spirit doing. Only then we will see the Kingdom of God.
Nothing can separate you from the love of Christ. Even if you don’t have your will or way, nothing can separate you from Him. Bad news comes, but His love is there. We will be unshakable this way. Not death, not life, can separate us from His love.
Unless the Spirit draws someone to the Father, you can’t save them. Unless the Spirit draws you to heal, you can’t heal. Only do according to His will and not our will. Father, deliver us from formulas and our own desires. Help us to get our will out of Your way. We see vanity even in our own prayer. We have to pray according to His will, just as it is in heaven, right in You! Let us grow in the maturity in Christ!
In Jesus’s name. Amen.
Shane W Roessiger
Word: John 11: 1-45 – Romans 12:1-3 – Romans 8:26-39
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