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Sermon Series: Lord, Teach Us To Pray
Matthew 6:10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
So many prayers are ” Now Lord bless what I already plan to do ”
J Hudson Taylor said, ” The greatest mission in the world is submission ”
Proverbs 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:6 (NLT) Seek his will in all you do and He will show which path to take.
I. THE SINFUL SUBSTITUTION OF FEELINGS FOR THE WILL OF GOD.
Jonah 1:1 Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah …
Jonah 1:2 “Arise, go to Nineveh …
Jonah 1:3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
Luke 6:46 But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say?
Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the
manner of some,
1 Timothy 5:8 But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for
those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should
abstain from sexual immorality;
1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality.
John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another;
as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
Titus 2:4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love
their children,
Proverbs 28:26 He who trusts in his own heart is a fool,…”
Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
1 John 3:20 (NLT) “…God is greater than our feelings, and he knows everything.
Feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving;
My warrant is the Word of God, Nothing else is worth believing.
II. THE SINFUL SUBSTITUTION OF MONEY FOR THE WILL OF GOD.
Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one
and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and mammon.
1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy
Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
1 Corinthians 6:20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your
body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof
are the ways of death.
III. THE SINFUL SUBSTITUTION OF PRESUMPTION FOR THE WILL OF GOD.
Jame 4:13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and
such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”;
James 1:14 Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow.
Proverbs 27:1 “Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for you know not what a day
may bring forth.
James 1:15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this
or that.”
Instead of “Lord, bless what I’m doing,” it should rather be “Lord, help me
to do what You’re blessing,” in order to really find the will of God.
James 1:14 Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is
your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
John Chancellor said, ” If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.
You don’t tell God your plans. Don’t tell Him what you’re going to do.”
Acts 18:21 ” … but I will return again to you, God willing.” And he sailed from
It is foolish to try to live our lives ignoring the will of God because we’re leaving
out the very blessing which can give meaning to our life.
James 1:16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Psalm 19:13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not
have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, and I shall be innocent of
great transgression.
Acts 17:32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked,
while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.”
Acts 17:33 So Paul departed from among them.
2 Corinthians 6:2 “… Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day
of salvation.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness,
but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should
come to repentance.
