{"id":11430,"date":"2019-04-20T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=11430"},"modified":"2019-04-13T01:25:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T00:25:26","slug":"his-will-not-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2019\/04\/20\/his-will-not-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"His Will Not Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11430-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/April-20.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/April-20.mp3\">https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/April-20.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+26%3A39&amp;version=NLT\">Matt.26:<strong><sup>39\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong><\/a>He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying,\u00a0\u201cMy Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Bible tells us again that in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+26%3A42&amp;version=NLT\">Matt.26:<strong><sup>42\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong><\/a><em>Then Jesus left them a second time and prayed,\u00a0\u201cMy Father! If this cup cannot be taken away\u00a0unless I drink it, your will be done.\u201d<\/em> <strong><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+26%3A44&amp;version=NLT\">44<\/a>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong><em>So he went to pray a third time, saying the same things again<\/em>.\u201d After reading this, <!--more-->I remember thinking that if Jesus really wanted the will of God to be done then why was He praying instead of just doing it? But I realized that it was tough for Him. The point is this, you may be at a place where doing God\u2019s will is difficult. It is okay, it does not mean you are a bad person, or that something is wrong with you. Jesus also got to the place where doing the will of the Father was difficult.<\/p>\n<p>This same Jesus that was saying in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=john+6%3A38&amp;version=NLT\">John 6:<\/a><strong><sup>38<\/sup>\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u201cFor I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own will<\/em>.\u201d In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=luke+9%3A22&amp;version=NLT\">Lu.9:<strong><sup>22<\/sup><\/strong>,<\/a> Jesus said,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201c<em>The Son of Man must suffer many terrible things,\u201d he said. \u201cHe will be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He will be killed, but on the third day he will be raised from the dead<\/em>.\u201d The Mark account of this same passage states that Jesus said to God, \u201call things are possible with You\u2026\u201d In other words, Jesus was asking for a shortcut and this was Jesus. Do you feel like you need a short cut from heaven? You are in good company. Do you feel like what you are going through is hard and you are pleading with God to do something, to make it easier? You are in good company.<\/p>\n<p>The same Jesus that said to His disciples in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=john+4%3A34&amp;version=NLT\">Jn.4:<\/a><strong><sup>34<\/sup>\u00a0\u201c<\/strong><em>Then Jesus explained: \u201cMy nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.\u201d<\/em> But when the time came, He struggled. If Jesus could struggle, Jesus understands your struggle and He really does. So, are you in a place where you can say your soul is crushed, or you are depressed, or you feel extremely troubled? Jesus Himself said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+26%3A38&amp;version=NLT\">Matt.26:<strong><sup>38\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong><\/a>\u201c<em>He told them,\u00a0\u201cMy soul is crushed with grief to the point of death..<\/em>.\u201d It is time to go to Gethsemane. Some of us really need to go to Gethsemane and just pray. Prayer is not bending God\u2019s will to get what we want. Prayer is actually aligning what we want with God\u2019s will. Jesus said to Peter, \u201cI could have prayed and commanded legions of angels to come.\u201d But Jesus said, \u201cI have to go to the cross. Heaven will not answer some prayers because the glory that comes from you going to the cross is far more important than your temporal victory. It is good to have those victories, but some victories God will not give you because of the greater victory that He wants to give you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer<\/strong>: Father, let Your will and not mine be done, in Jesus Name. Amen!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt.26:39\u00a0He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying,\u00a0\u201cMy Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.\u201d The Bible tells us again that in Matt.26:42\u00a0Then Jesus left them a second time and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,271,236,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agreement","category-align","category-courage","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11561,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11430\/revisions\/11561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}