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Have you ever asked yourself, “What is the will of God for my life?”
I think this is the question every Christian has asked in their life time.
We want to know what is God’s plan for our lives?
What is God’s purpose for our lives?
What is God’s master plan?
All though I can not tell you the fine details of God’s plan for you life, I can share with you a broad view of God’s plan for your life.
This morning we will discover Two directives for our life.
The First Directive is Devote Yourself to Prayer
But this is not the only time we are told to pray.
Jesus tells us
Paul, the apostle, tells us:
One thing is crystal clear from these passages: it is God’s will that we pray to him.
God longs for us to turn back to him.
As we struggle to know the will of God for our lives, we know that God wants us to pray.
Maybe we do not know God’s will for our lives because we have for asked him.
Not really.
Too often we, I say we because I am guilty too, of going through life with prayer as an after thought.
Jesus pattern was always, pray first, act second.
He prayed before he selected his disciples.
He prayed before he moved into ministry.
He even prayed before he faced the cross.
Jesus always prayed before he made any decision.
I confess that is not my pattern.
It is often to Act first, then pray to get myself out of trouble.
I know I would get in less trouble if I prayed first.
But what is prayer?
Francis Chan, a pastor, and church leader.
I think a lot of us need to forget about God's will for my life.
God cares more about our response to His Spirit's leading today, in this moment, than about what we intend to do next year.
What is Prayer?
Mainly it means asking God for things.
By “things” I don’t mean objects—stuff.
And, of course, what your heart needs most is God—to know him and trust him and love him and obey him.
I know that we should come to God with more than asking.
We should come confessing sins and giving thanks and praise.
YOU no doubt have heard of
ACTS, the four parts of prayer.
A- is for adoration.
C- is for confession
T- is for thanksgiving, which we will come back to soon.
S- Supplication or our needs.
James Wall tells about how difficult a certain Carmelite nun found contemplative prayer to be because her thoughts would wander a thousand times during a 20 minute prayer session.
She was sure her teacher Thomas Merton would rebuke her for such a failure, so she was surprised when instead Merton said that her wandering thoughts were just 1,000 opportunities to return to God.
The Second directive is Thanking God should always be part of what we do in prayer.
And it is not surprising that this word “be devoted to” or “persevere in” or “continue in” occurs six times in the New Testament in relation to prayer.
Not just pray, but pray with thanksgiving.
We also see that thanksgiving was element of Paul’s prayer life.
You are to pray often and you pray regularly.
Prayer with thanksgiving is not infrequent and prayer is not hit and miss.
Being “devoted to” prayer means that you are not haphazard and you are not forgetful.
I confess I am not there yet.
Pray was so central to Jesus’ life, he was always turning away to pray.
And Jesus made thanksgiving an essential element of his prayer life.
I am God.
Today I will be handling all of your problems.
Please remember that I do not need your help.
If life happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle, do not attempt to resolve it.
Kindly put it in the SFGTD (something for God to do) box.
It will be addressed in My time, not yours.
Once the matter is placed into the box, do not hold on to it.
I am God.
– Contributed.
Source unknown.
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