THE POWER OF BEING IN THE CENTER OF GOD’S WILL
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OUTLINE
1.PURPOSE
2.PLAN
3.PROTECTION
4.PATRONAGE
5.PRAYER
6.PRAISE
7.POWER
THE MESSAGE
THE POWER OF BEING IN THE CENTER OF GOD’S WILL
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1.PURPOSE
There is a great purpose that the Lord has for us . The Lord wants us to pray that His Kingdom should be established in the earth and that His will should done on eath as it is heaven . When we seek the Lord earnestly , He will intervene in the affairs of men and fulfill His divine purpose on the earth. We must put our faith in the Lord who is almighty and is able to fulfill His purpose destroying every resistance. If we fail to seek the Lord then we will allow the enemy to work out his evil purposes on the earth. Therefore we must seek the Lord and cry to Him in order that He may bless our land.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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MATTHEW 6:10
your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
JOB 42:2
"I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.
ISAIAH 14: 24, 27
The LORD Almighty has sworn, "Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will stand.
For the LORD Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?
DANIEL 4:34-35
At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever. His dominion is an eternal dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation.
All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: "What have you done?"
2 CHRONICLES 7:14
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
2.PLAN
There is great blessing when we are in the center of God’s will. His plans are greater than our plans and purposes. When we submit ourselves to His will , the Lord will fulfill His plan for our lives. We are like clay in the potter’s hand. We must allow the Lord to mould us and form us according to His will. We should not resist the will of God in our lives. The Lord has chosen us to be His vessels of mercy and we must be grateful to Him for His work of grace in our lives.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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MATTHEW 26:39
Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will."
ISAIAH 55:8-9
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
JEREMIAH 18:1-6
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD :
"Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message."
So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel.
But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
Then the word of the LORD came to me:
"O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
ROMANS 9:15-23
For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
It does not, therefore, depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."
Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?"
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ’Why did you make me like this?’ "
Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?
What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory—
ROMANS 12:1-2
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
3.PROTECTION
There is great protection in our lives when we are in the center of God’s will. The Lord will be a wall of fire around us and He will the glory within us. He will keep us as the apple of His eye and anyone who touches us will touch the apple of His eye. When we are in the center of God’s will, we will dwell under His shadow and enjoy divine protection.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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ZECHARIAH 2:5,8
And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the LORD, ’and I will be its glory within.’
For this is what the LORD Almighty says: "After he has honored me and has sent me against the nations that have plundered you for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye-
ISAIAH 27:3
I, the LORD, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.
PSALM 91:1-12
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."
Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.
A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.
If you make the Most High your dwelling— even the LORD, who is my refuge-
then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent.
For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;
they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
4.PATRONAGE
There is great favour and patronage in our lives when we are in the center of God’s will. The Lord will turn the hearts of rulers to favour us in order to fulfill His will in our lives. He will rebuke authorities and warn them not to harm us . He caused the offical to show favour and sympathy to Daniel. When we are in the center of God’s will , we can experience supernatural favour working in our lives.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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PROVERBS 21:1
The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD; he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases.
DANIEL 1:9
Now God had caused the official to show favor and sympathy to Daniel,
PSALM 105:14-15
He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings:
"Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm."
5.PRAYER
There is great power in our prayer when we are in the center of God’s will. We have the assurance that when we ask according to His will , the Lord will surely answer our prayers. When our motive is to glorify God , the Lord will do more than we ask or think . When Elijah acted according to the will of God , the Lord vindicated His servant and answered him by fire from heaven.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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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.
EPHESIANS 3:20-21
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
1 KINGS 18:36-38
At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.
Answer me, O LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again."
Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.
ROMANS 8:26-27
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.
6.PRAISE
There is great power in our praise and worship when we are in the center of God’s will. As we praise and worship the Lord with all our heart , He will fight our battles and bring justice to us and judgement on the enemy. We must stand on the word of God which is the sword of the Spirit and worship the Lord in faith and confidence in order to enforce the judgement of God on the evildoers.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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PSALM 149:6-9
May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands,
to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,
to bind their kings with fetters, their nobles with shackles of iron,
to carry out the sentence written against them. This is the glory of all his saints. Praise the LORD.
2 CHRONICLES 20:20-24
Early in the morning they left for the Desert of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem! Have faith in the LORD your God and you will be upheld; have faith in his prophets and you will be successful."
After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the LORD and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying: "Give thanks to the LORD, for his love endures forever."
As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.
The men of Ammon and Moab rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped.
HEBREWS 4:12
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
EPHESIANS 6:17
Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
7.POWER
There is great power available to us when we are in the center of God’s will. The Lord will build His church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. The Lord has given us the keys of the Kingdom and we have tha authority to bind the works of the enemy and release the blessings of God. The Lord has set before us an open door which no man can shut. He will break down every hindrance and cause us to progress in our walk with Him. We must use the authority that we have just as Elijah did in his time.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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MATTHEW 16: 18-19
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
REVELATION 3:7-8
"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
ISAIAH 45:1-3
"This is what the LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:
I will go before you and will level the mountains ; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron.
I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.
ISAIAH 22:22
I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
JAMES 5:17-18
Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.
JAMES 4:7
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
ACTS 19:11-17
God did extraordinary miracles through Paul,
so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.
Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, "In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out."
Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.
(One day) the evil spirit answered them, "Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?"
Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor.
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