Understanding The Lord's Prayer, Part 3
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 2:15 pmHi All,
Blessings!
Today we examine what has often been presented to us as some great complex task of doing our Father's will here on Earth as it is done in Heaven. It is interesting to note the many that read part 1 of this series but not part 2. I say so because one of the most unique characteristics of the Lord's prayer is how each part is an outcome of the previous statement or request. Here is what I mean. We won't find the ability within ourselves to entirely comprehend how we should show great reverence to His awesome name until the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven has come into us through the person and work of the Holy Spirit. For it is only through the teaching, guidance, comfort and understanding given us by the Holy Spirit that we can come to understand completely just how worthy our Heavenly Dad is of the awe we should feel when we think of Him. But that awe, my beloved family in the Lord, comes to us by way of His Kingdom having come into us by the Spirit He has given us. Such awe is found in His great love for us.
So what should it mean to us when we think of the Lord's will being done here on Earth as it is in Heaven? How do we understand such a wonderful thing? Is it even possible for our Father's will to be done here on Earth as it is in Heaven?
Of course it is, but not by the strength of our own will. Rather, we do the Father's will here on Earth by giving up our will in submission to His. Such begs the question, how does our Father's will come to us, and how are we to understand the presence of the Father's will being done in our lives?
We must review what it means to us for the Kingdom of God to be present within us.
Yes, we must understand how it is the Kingdom of God comes to us. Such comes to us when we seek and receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit, for it is through us in Him and Him in us that the Kingdom of God comes to us. Back to the Father's will....what is it for us really, with understanding? Many make doing the will of God such a complex thing through rite and ritual that the truth of His will becomes smothered underneath the weight of what doing the will of God is not. It isn't living a religious life. It is living a spiritual life.
Spiritual life comes to us two ways, (1), by believing in Him God has sent.
Such is the first will of God for our lives, for us to believe the Words of our Lord that He is the Son of God and that God raised Him from the dead.
The second will of God is His commandment to us that we love the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and one another. But how shall we do that unless the Kingdom of God has come on Earth and filled us with the presence and person and wonderful working of His Holy Spirit? For the love of God comes to us as the Holy Spirit smears our heart, (sheds abroad in our heart), the love of God.
John.15
1.[10] If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
2.[12] This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
The third will of God for us evolves out of doing the first two things, believing in the Lord, and loving as He loved us, even loving the Father and one another as we are loved. If we believe in the Lord and love as He loved, then our Lord will manifest Himself to us and within us. When our Lord manifests Himself to us we enter into God's third will for us, which is to preach, teach, and publish His gospel in all the world.
The will of God is not complex, but filled with wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Remember, the wisdom from above brings peace and is not burdensome. Righteousness is doing right. What is doing right? It is loving. We do no harm, but help one another as much as we can. Sanctification comes to us when we love as our Lord loved, for the love of God sets us apart from the world. The world cannot love as God loves. If we love as our Lord loved, that love will separate us from the world. Lastly, if we love as God loves us, we have eternal life through that love, and have been redeemed. When we love, we walk in the light as God is the light, and the blood of Jesus keeps us clean. When we walk in love, we are walking after the Spirit of God and there is no condemnation for those that walk after the Spirit. (Remember that please...when you are walking after the Spirit in love, no, not any condemnation belongs to you, and should condemnation come it is the wicked one that is lying to you. When such happens to me I say. "Satan, you are a liar!" That is the end of the matter.) Finally, when we walk in the commandment of love, we have no problem sharing the gospel.
Is God's will being done in your life? Are you doing God's will? If not you can correct that by a quick resetting of your will. See all of those that have wounded you as naked and poor and blind and to be pitied because they have no understanding of the things they do or the consequences, so forgive them, and look on them as our Lord looks upon them, as pitiful creatures in need of the rich life you have in God's love. Just forgive them and pray for them in love. Your life as the redeemed of the Lord will become so much easier. If you bring love up against sin you have done right and you will no longer be weighted down by the strife of unforgiveness, bitterness, and constant pain those things bring into your life. Walk after the Spirit my beloved. Walk after the Spirit.
My beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord. Be at peace, for God our Father loves us as He loved our Lord.
Blessings!
Love, In Christ Jesus, saint.
Blessings!
Today we examine what has often been presented to us as some great complex task of doing our Father's will here on Earth as it is done in Heaven. It is interesting to note the many that read part 1 of this series but not part 2. I say so because one of the most unique characteristics of the Lord's prayer is how each part is an outcome of the previous statement or request. Here is what I mean. We won't find the ability within ourselves to entirely comprehend how we should show great reverence to His awesome name until the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven has come into us through the person and work of the Holy Spirit. For it is only through the teaching, guidance, comfort and understanding given us by the Holy Spirit that we can come to understand completely just how worthy our Heavenly Dad is of the awe we should feel when we think of Him. But that awe, my beloved family in the Lord, comes to us by way of His Kingdom having come into us by the Spirit He has given us. Such awe is found in His great love for us.
So what should it mean to us when we think of the Lord's will being done here on Earth as it is in Heaven? How do we understand such a wonderful thing? Is it even possible for our Father's will to be done here on Earth as it is in Heaven?
Of course it is, but not by the strength of our own will. Rather, we do the Father's will here on Earth by giving up our will in submission to His. Such begs the question, how does our Father's will come to us, and how are we to understand the presence of the Father's will being done in our lives?
We must review what it means to us for the Kingdom of God to be present within us.
Luke.17
[20] And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
[21] Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Rom.14
1.[17] For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Matt.6
1.[33] But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
Yes, we must understand how it is the Kingdom of God comes to us. Such comes to us when we seek and receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit, for it is through us in Him and Him in us that the Kingdom of God comes to us. Back to the Father's will....what is it for us really, with understanding? Many make doing the will of God such a complex thing through rite and ritual that the truth of His will becomes smothered underneath the weight of what doing the will of God is not. It isn't living a religious life. It is living a spiritual life.
Spiritual life comes to us two ways, (1), by believing in Him God has sent.
John.6
1.[29] Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Such is the first will of God for our lives, for us to believe the Words of our Lord that He is the Son of God and that God raised Him from the dead.
The second will of God is His commandment to us that we love the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and one another. But how shall we do that unless the Kingdom of God has come on Earth and filled us with the presence and person and wonderful working of His Holy Spirit? For the love of God comes to us as the Holy Spirit smears our heart, (sheds abroad in our heart), the love of God.
John.14
1.[15] If ye love me, keep my commandments.
2.[21] He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
John.15
1.[10] If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
2.[12] This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
1John.4
1.[8] He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
2.[16] And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
1John.5
1.[2] By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
2.[3] For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
The third will of God for us evolves out of doing the first two things, believing in the Lord, and loving as He loved us, even loving the Father and one another as we are loved. If we believe in the Lord and love as He loved, then our Lord will manifest Himself to us and within us. When our Lord manifests Himself to us we enter into God's third will for us, which is to preach, teach, and publish His gospel in all the world.
The will of God is not complex, but filled with wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Remember, the wisdom from above brings peace and is not burdensome. Righteousness is doing right. What is doing right? It is loving. We do no harm, but help one another as much as we can. Sanctification comes to us when we love as our Lord loved, for the love of God sets us apart from the world. The world cannot love as God loves. If we love as our Lord loved, that love will separate us from the world. Lastly, if we love as God loves us, we have eternal life through that love, and have been redeemed. When we love, we walk in the light as God is the light, and the blood of Jesus keeps us clean. When we walk in love, we are walking after the Spirit of God and there is no condemnation for those that walk after the Spirit. (Remember that please...when you are walking after the Spirit in love, no, not any condemnation belongs to you, and should condemnation come it is the wicked one that is lying to you. When such happens to me I say. "Satan, you are a liar!" That is the end of the matter.) Finally, when we walk in the commandment of love, we have no problem sharing the gospel.
Is God's will being done in your life? Are you doing God's will? If not you can correct that by a quick resetting of your will. See all of those that have wounded you as naked and poor and blind and to be pitied because they have no understanding of the things they do or the consequences, so forgive them, and look on them as our Lord looks upon them, as pitiful creatures in need of the rich life you have in God's love. Just forgive them and pray for them in love. Your life as the redeemed of the Lord will become so much easier. If you bring love up against sin you have done right and you will no longer be weighted down by the strife of unforgiveness, bitterness, and constant pain those things bring into your life. Walk after the Spirit my beloved. Walk after the Spirit.
My beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord. Be at peace, for God our Father loves us as He loved our Lord.
Blessings!
Love, In Christ Jesus, saint.