6-26-2016 Weekly Message

This week’s meditation: Psalms 20: 1-9

Scripture Psalms 37: 1-11

Word Title: Are you walking in the will of God?

           Everyone sees some idea in mind and have a desire to live in thought and imagination that made him wish and plan something. God look into the mind and heart and imagination of man.  The scripture says: ” And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart” (Genesis 6: 5 6)

        That’s right! God sees the evil things  in the heart of man even before he carry out any evil. King David testified that God already knew of him when he was conceived in the womb:  ” My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.“(Psalm 135: 15-18).

            God  sees in advance the things in the person’s mind before his birth; and he love someone, and hate the others according to the scripture: ” I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. “(Malachi 1: 2-3)

           Apostle Paul testified that God loved Jacob, and made his children chosen nation according to the sovereign power of God  : ” For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”(Romans 9: 9-13)

          God said to Satan of Job who lived long time ago knowing of him:   Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?” (Job 1: 8)

          The fear of God and avoiding evil is the love of God who made himself. Who loves God is the only person to live a life that pleases God, fear Him and avoid evil. Only them that  not follow their own lusts, and also take up the cross and follow the Lord  please God. God became a man, and said unto the disciples of the one that pleases God: ” If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me….  He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.  And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. “(Matthew 16:24; 10: 37-38)

          The Holy Ghost spoke through the mouth of David saying, pret not thyself because of the evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity making money in the evil ways. And said to trust in the LORD, then God will supply with all their needs. And also said, Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he  shall give thee the desires of thine heart; and commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

        Apostle Paul wrote to the church at Philippians saying, God shall give unto them the desires to fulfill his will: “Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.“(Philippians 2: 12-13).

            That’s right! The desires from God through pleasing him is not of the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life at all, but of fulfilling the will of God.  But doing the will of God, there will follow the cross. Therefore, Jesus spoke unto his disciples to follow denying themselves, and taking up their own cross. The Father God gave Jesus  his will to save all men; and he voluntarily took up the cross, and died thereon. The writer of the book of Hebrew testified of the vow  of Jesus to do the will of the Father with pleasure::  “Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. “(Hebrews 10:07)

           The Holy Ghost used the mouth of David to pray for them that deny themselves, and take up their cross, and submit sacrificing offering to do the will of God:

 ” The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah. Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfill all thy counsel. We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfill all thy petitions. “(Psalm 20: 1-5)

            As the Lord Jesus gave himself as a sacrifice for all men to fulfill the will of the Father God, we also should present our own body as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service as Apostle Paul testified.  The service that pleases God is not a ritual service at all.

            Apostle Paul always filled  the concern for the Church of God unto his body so that they may perform fully the will of God, and go to the kingdom of God. he was stoned to death, and rose up again from the death; and went into the city where he was stoned again to visit the church therein to confirm the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and said unto them: “We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”(Acts 14″22)

          That’s right! The sufferings  of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us(Rom. 8:18) If we suffer, we shall reign with Christ gloriously(2Tim 2;12). The scripture testifies, even Jesus our Lord God receive the glory as much as he suffered.(Philippians 2: 9-11)

Amen! Hallelujah!