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Am I Praying for God’s Will or Asking Him to Bless My Plans? | Walking in Spiritual Discernment · Divine515 Podcast

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  - Welcome to the divine five one five podcast.
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  - Here is today's prayer.
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  - Hello, and welcome to today's
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  - prayer focus where we're talking about
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  - praying for God's will
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  - versus asking him to bless our plans.
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  - And the prayer scripture
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  - that we're focusing on today comes from first
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  - John five fourteen through 15,
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  - which simply says, and this is the confidence
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  - that we have toward him,
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  - that if we ask anything according to his
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  - will,
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  - he hears us. And if we know that
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  - he hears us,
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  - whatever we ask, we know that we have
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  - the request that we have made of him.
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  - Now
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  - I wanna start the conversation
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  - by,
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  - pointing out a couple of things in this
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  - scripture.
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  - Number one, the scripture is telling us that
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  - there's a confidence that we have that we
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  - can boldly come to the throne of grace
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  - and ask God
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  - and make our petitions known.
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  - Why? Because he's our father. And like any
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  - good parent,
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  - the child can go to the parent. And
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  - I've often made reference that maybe you did
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  - not have the best
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  - parental child relationship, so my heart goes out
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  - to you. But to remember
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  - that God is not like man.
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  - He is the original parental template.
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  - And
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  - everything that he does, regardless of whether we
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  - understand it or not, is good. And because
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  - he's the perfect parent, we can come
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  - to him with whatever it is we're facing
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  - with confidence
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  - because
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  - he tells us ahead of time that he's
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  - going to hear us.
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  - So
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  - while we may keep telling him,
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  - don't tell him because you don't think he's
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  - hearing you, because he heard you the first
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  - time.
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  - But rather
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  - know that when you come to him, it's
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  - always about
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  - the concept
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  - of relationship
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  - building.
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  - Knowing that whatever it is that we ask,
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  - he'll grant it. But the key is
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  - not according to what our will is, but
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  - his will.
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  - And that's a really important thing to remember
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  - because
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  - sometimes
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  - when we come to prayer, we already have
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  - our minds made up.
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  - So when we line up our will with
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  - God's will,
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  - it'll help shift our mindset.
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  - We always wanna go
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  - toward God's direction
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  - so that he will approve what we've already
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  - decided.
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  - Why?
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  - Because he's given his given us his heart
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  - and his mind.
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  - And it's always a good thing to remember
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  - that true discernment
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  - doesn't just require
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  - a made up mind,
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  - but
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  - surrender.
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  - That being said,
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  - let's pray together.
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  - Heavenly father, search our heart and reveal any
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  - place where we've been holding
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  - too tightly
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  - to our own plans.
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  - Help us
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  - to desire your will above
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  - our
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  - preferences.
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  - Teach us to come to prayer with open
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  - hands
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  - and a willing spirit.
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  - Give us the courage we need to follow
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  - whatever it is you lead,
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  - knowing and trusting that your plans are always
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  - better than our own.
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  - And we will bless you in Jesus' name.
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