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GOD’S WILL IS BEST
THURSDAY, JULY 17
Luke 11:1-13

James 4:2-3

 

“…Thy will be done…”

 

GOD’S WILL IS BEST
 
We must pray for God’s will to be done. We must subject our will to His. Jesus for example submitted to His Father’s will when He prayed in Gethsemane, “nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done” (Luke 22:42). Our Father in heaven knows best. We know His will through His Word. So we ought to pray according to what the Scriptures have revealed to us. When we do that, He will answer our prayers (John 14:13).
 
We are told to pray for our daily needs. This tells us that the Lord wants us to walk by faith and depend on Him each day. He is our Provider. He wants us to focus on our living for Him, and to let Him “worry” about our livelihood. Read what He said in Matthew 6:31-33.
 
We need to seek the Lord’s forgiveness for our sins. And we ought also to forgive others who have sinned against us. How many times ought we to forgive those who trespass against us? Not once or twice, but always (Matt 18:22, 35).
 
We are instructed to pray that the Lord will “lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.” Temptation does not come from God, but from the devil, the world and our sinful flesh (James 1:13). When we pray to the Lord not to lead us to temptation, we are simply asking for His help in keeping us from falling into temptation. Read what Paul said in 1 Corinthians 10:13.
 
Our Father in heaven is keen to answer our prayers and shower us with good gifts from above. He urges us to keep on asking, seeking, knocking. His treasury never runs dry. We need to persevere in prayer. If we know how to give that which is good and needful to our children, how much more will our heavenly Father give even the Holy Spirit with all the accompanying spiritual gifts and graces to help us in time of need? “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning” (James 1:17).
 
THOUGHT: The greatest faith is the faith that says, “Not my will but thine be done.”

PRAYER: Father, I wish only for things that Thou desire for me.

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