Praying God's Will
Praying God's Will
"Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is." Eph. 5:17
When we pray, we ought to pray with confidence of what God's intended will or outcome is. There is a subjective encounter with the Holy Spirit which enlightens the believer, guiding him or her into all truth, revealing what God's will is. If we do not pray this way, we are merely praying prayers which are more along the lines of fatalism -- (ie. "well, I pray that God's will is done in this situation"). This is the excuse of lazy praying, insinuating that "God's will" is something which is unreachable, unknowable and therefore "unpray-able". Believers who follow this line of praying allow for attacks of Satan to be excused as "God's will". God will allow many things which are not His will; it should not be ours to merely let them happen by not interceeding. Believers who know that the "fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much" takes stock in their prayers, don't waste their breath when they come to God, and believe with certainty that their prayers will be answered. They understand that the enemy comes to "steal, kill, and destroy" but that God has come to bring "life and life more abundantly". They know the Father's heart and persevere to see it come to pass. They know that their prayers make a difference in time and eternity, that people's lives and very souls rest upon their prayers, that God's will to act is intimately connected to peoples' will to ask, not because God can't act apart from us, but that He has chosen to work WITH us to accomplish His will.
1 John 5:14-15 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
"Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is." Eph. 5:17
When we pray, we ought to pray with confidence of what God's intended will or outcome is. There is a subjective encounter with the Holy Spirit which enlightens the believer, guiding him or her into all truth, revealing what God's will is. If we do not pray this way, we are merely praying prayers which are more along the lines of fatalism -- (ie. "well, I pray that God's will is done in this situation"). This is the excuse of lazy praying, insinuating that "God's will" is something which is unreachable, unknowable and therefore "unpray-able". Believers who follow this line of praying allow for attacks of Satan to be excused as "God's will". God will allow many things which are not His will; it should not be ours to merely let them happen by not interceeding. Believers who know that the "fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much" takes stock in their prayers, don't waste their breath when they come to God, and believe with certainty that their prayers will be answered. They understand that the enemy comes to "steal, kill, and destroy" but that God has come to bring "life and life more abundantly". They know the Father's heart and persevere to see it come to pass. They know that their prayers make a difference in time and eternity, that people's lives and very souls rest upon their prayers, that God's will to act is intimately connected to peoples' will to ask, not because God can't act apart from us, but that He has chosen to work WITH us to accomplish His will.
1 John 5:14-15 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
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