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GOD’S WILL

12-29-11 

WHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES IT TELL US ABOUT DOING GOD’S
         WILL. WELL, I HAVE TO 
 
 
ADMIT I COULD NOT FIND IT.  I AM BY NO MEANS SAYING
         IT IS NOT IN THERE, JUST 
 
 
THAT I COULD NOT FIND IT.  I USUALLY AM A PRETTY GOOD GOOGLER BUT THIS ONE 
 
 
ESCAPED ME.  BUT THEN I REALIZED…GOD’S
         WILL IS ON ALMOST EVERY PAGE OF THE 
 
 
BIBLE. OVER AND OVER AGAIN.I WILL MAKE THEE A NATION, I WILL GIVE THEE A SON,  I WILL MAKE THEE
         FRUITFUL,
 
 
I WILL….
         WELL I AM SURE YOU GET THE PICTURE.  GOD MADE PROMISE AFTER PROMISE 
 
 
TO MAN.  MY FAVORITE IS IN THERE MANY TIMES. I WILL
         MAKE MY COVENANT.  WE 
 
 
ALL KNOW A COVENANT IS A PROMISE FROM GOD.  WE ALSO KNOW HE NEVER BROKE 
 
 
A PROMISE.
 
 
SO
         WHEN YOU ARE ASKING IN YOUR PRAYERS FOR GOD’S WILL TO BE DONE, THINK ABOUT 
 
 
THE MANY PROMISES HE MADE AND THE MANY PROMISES HE HAS KEPT. 
         HE EVEN MADE 
 
 
THAT PROMISE ABOUT THE MESSIAH. THINK HOW HARD THAT WAS FOR HIM TO KEEP AND 
 
 
THE MANY YEARS HE KNEW ABOUT IT BEFORE IT HAPPENED.  
         COULD YOU EVEN COME 
 
 
CLOSE TO DOING THAT IF IT WAS GOD’S WILL FOR YOU.  I DON’T THINK I COULD. SO 
 
 
WHEN YOU ARE SAYING THE WORDS THINK
         OF WHAT GOD DOES IN HIS PROMISES,
 
 
 HIS COVENANTS AND HIS WILL AND HOW HE KEEPS IT. ARE YOU MAKING THAT PROMISE 
 
OR JUST SAYING THE ROUTINE WORDS.  THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK.   
         

THAT SAME SON SPEAKING IN WHAT HAS BECOME KNOWN AS THE

SERMON ON THE MOUNT ALSO MADE A LOT OF PROMISES.

I KNOW ALL THESE WILL BE KEPT AS WELL

  

MATTHEW 5

THE BEATITUDES

     HE SAID: 

 3 “BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT,

   FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.

4 BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO MOURN,

   FOR THEY WILL BE COMFORTED.

5 BLESSED ARE THE MEEK,

  FOR THEY WILL INHERIT THE EARTH.

6 BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HUNGER

AND THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, 

 FOR THEY WILL BE FILLED.

7 BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL,

FOR THEY WILL BE SHOWN MERCY.

8 BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART,

 FOR THEY WILL SEE GOD.

 

9 BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS,

 FOR THEY WILL BE CALLED CHILDREN OF GOD.

10 BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO ARE PERSECUTED

BECAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,  FOR THEIRS IS

 THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.

11 “BLESSED ARE YOU WHEN PEOPLE INSULT

YOU, PERSECUTE YOU AND FALSELY SAY ALL

KINDS OF EVIL AGAINST YOU BECAUSE OF ME.

12 REJOICE AND BE GLAD, BECAUSE GREAT IS

YOUR REWARD IN HEAVEN, FOR IN THE SAME WAY

THEY PERSECUTED THE PROPHETS WHO WERE BEFORE YOU.