I Will Do the Will of God

"I Will Do the Will of God" – Matthew 6:10 In the prayer Jesus taught us and left as a model stands this petition: thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. The aim of this study is that in life the desire to do God's will comes before filling the ego. Often people say they want to do God's will while thinking of something great, of ministries and gifts, of something that stands out and that everyone applauds; but sweeping the house of God is within His will, and so is serving another. What would it profit us to live our whole life doing as we please, if in the end we do not do what our Creator expected of us?

I. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10).

A. God's will first, not the ego.

1. God's will is what He has planned for each one of us. In that prayer you say: what is your will for me today? Guide me today to do it.

2. It is not the strain of waking with a full schedule. And if you say I will pray when I lie down, when you set yourself to pray you will fall asleep, for the body is drained from the

3. In the morning, with the body rested and the mind fresh, one enters fully into that prayer; and when you finish you feel you have spoken with God and that now you can go out.

4. It is not how great a thing I can achieve today so that they see me at work or at school. The chief thing in our life as Christians is the will of God.

5. Sweeping the church is within His will, for it is seeing the house of God look lovely. And if something falls beside you and you bend to pick it up, that is within it too.

6. And how do you feel when you finish? Not with the ego, but satisfied, and quiet, in silence, within yourself; because you did something you know pleases God.

B. Why did you not do what I expected of you?

1. What is it worth to gain a good name, or what you achieved at work and in your studies, if in the end you did not do what God wanted for your life?

2. He will ask us, with every right He has as Creator. And standing before His presence one would fall prostrate; there would be no answer, we would be struck dumb.

3. For that is what we do: we look for ways to justify not doing His will. I could not because of this, I could not because of that; always an excuse for not doing what falls to us.

4. But see how He will answer us: I gave you the Scriptures, where I gave you my mind in writing. There is no excuse, because the Word is there.

5. And He will say: you did not make use of it. You did not make use of the mind of God, which He left us complete so that we might be guided by it.

II. The Word is living, and in it the mind of God is written.

A. Twenty times you read it, twenty times God speaks to you.

1. Today you cannot say: I already read that book, why read it again? You can say that of any other book, because the word of another book is not living.

2. How many times have we read a verse we did not understand in the past, and today God lets us see plainly what it held?

3. Here there is something for everything: no matter the trouble, the situation, or the discouragement. Read it with a true desire, and the Word will speak to you and work in

your life.

4. Our map of the Christian life is on our knees. When you take the Lord's Prayer and live it and make it part of your inner life, you will see the map plainly.

5. How many are troubled? How many do not know God's will for their life? And the Lord has it right there beside you, written.

B. Man is self-willed by nature.

1. Have you seen self-willed children? Well, we grown-ups often become those children, outside the frame of what God wants for our life.

2. It is because of the flesh: more place has been given to the flesh than to the spirit. And you give more place to the flesh when you do not pray; for prayer is daily, day after day.

3. How will you know His will if you take no time to speak with Him? And perhaps you can spend two or three hours in front of the television.

4. Lord, do I stay or do I go? But I already bought the ticket. Because those two hundred sixty dollars are worth more than the will of God.

5. One thing I have learned: God blesses me, man does not bless me. We grow desperate in the flesh and give place to our own thinking and to what I want to do.

6. Since you know not what shall be on the morrow, you ought to say: if the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. And to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin (James 4:13-17).

III. Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh (Galatians 5:16-17).

A. Living in the flesh gives place to what we think and want.

1. What is it that we want, or what is it that God wants? Are they your desires, or is it the will of God?

2. Living in the Spirit casts out our own thinking and whatever is in our heart that is not pleasing God. For that is the point: that it please God.

3. When one displeases God, one bears the consequences, because one moves away from what God wants for our life.

B. The devil steals obedience.

1. When you accept Christ, God sows in you the good seed, the Word. And what does the devil do? He wants to steal from us what God sowed.

2. Often we open the door a little: through doubt, through the remark you heard, or because there is no full life of prayer in you.

3. Many began very well: reading the Scripture and praying every day, attending the services, speaking the message of salvation, giving offerings and tithes with joy. And what did the devil do? He stole their obedience.

4. What falls to me as a Christian? It is plain in the Word: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, praying without ceasing, reading the Word, and bringing the tithes and offerings into the storehouse. Each point is a matter of obedience.

5. Do not listen to outside voices: I work myself to death to give the tithe. I am giving the ten, and what do I keep? The ninety; and God gives back even more.

6. The first thing he will set before you is money. But obedience is by faith: it is believing God that He will bless me another way.

C. Ye did run well; who did hinder you? (Galatians 5:7).

1. The only one who can allow it is you. To open the door to the devil is to permit it oneself: the leaving off of prayer, the leaving off of reading the Word.

2. But it says: resist the devil, and he will flee from you. And do you know what it is to resist? When you stand firm and strong, there you will withstand what comes against you.

3. As in football: the one who comes running hard to knock you down is the one who falls, if you stand firm. Stand firm in the Lord and tell him: here I will not open the door to you.

4. And let him know that you are a child of God and that you want to do His will. Let him see it, by seeking God, by gathering with the church, and by reading the mind of God every

IV. I delight to do thy will, O my God (Psalm 40:8); teach me to do thy will (Psalm 143:10).

A. David delighted to do the will of God.

1. And do you know what it is to delight? When you feel glad because you did what fell to you to do. And there is in you a personal satisfaction; personal, not ego.

2. May it be your delight too to do the Father's will more than your own. To die to yourself, to die every day: He must increase, but I must decrease.

3. No one compels you; no one compelled David, he did it willingly. When you go to do His will, let it be willingly, because there is in you a desire to please God.

4. Do not do it to keep up appearances before others, and do not do it merely to get it over with. What you did out of obligation will not be written in heaven.

5. And thy law is within my heart: all that is God's law we do with delight and not with displeasure, for there God sets it, so that we may do it.

6. One does the will of God anywhere, and does not stop doing it when he goes out those doors.

B. Teach me, and do not seek to please men.

1. We are students, and a student goes to school to listen and to learn. If you do not know His will, there is prayer: Lord, teach me.

2. Thy spirit is good; lead me. The Holy Spirit is there to guide you; if you ask Him, He is ready to reveal to you the good will of God for your life.

3. Whosoever shall do the will of my Father, the same is my brother (Matthew 12:50). It is not by the long time you have been in the church.

4. Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers (Ephesians 6:6). To seek to please man will lead you to a great disappointment.

5. Many do not know His will because they spend themselves filling the eye of man; if men applaud them, that is enough. But God does not want applause for us: He wants all the glory to be His.

C. O my Father, thy will be done (Matthew 26:42).

1. It was hard for Jesus to do the Father's will, but He yielded wholly to it. What a moment that was in Gethsemane, when His sweat was as drops of blood.

2. And that is what we must do day after day: my ego leads me to this, but I want to do your will, Father.

3. When God sees our heart in that humbling, God will help us and will come out on our behalf.

4. Jesus knew what awaited Him: the nails, the scourging, the crown of thorns. And not only to die: He would carry all your sins on the cross, those you have spoken and those you

keep quiet.

5. What concerns you more: your pain, or doing the will of God? Your pride and your image before people, or doing the will of God?

6. If you do not break the flesh every day, it will break you, because it will let the devil steal what God placed in your heart. Amen.