All in God’s Will

God’s Will, God’s Glory, and our Humility

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, God’s Will, God’s Glory

Did you preach a wonderful sermon this week, or do something amazing for your church? Have you been given accolades for your teaching ability, or praised for a miracle that God performed following your intercession in prayer? Perhaps you were recognized for years of service to your congregation, and puffed out your chest in satisfaction. Well, If we claim the glory for any of these things publicly, or even privately in the depths of our heart, then whose will were we serving if not our own? Our service to God should be performed by humbly Seeking and doing God’s will, then stepping back and yielding all glory to Him.

In the Midst of Plague Hold Fast to what is Good!

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, God’s Will, Miracles

Did you ever think that you would live through a biblical scale plague? In your wildest dreams could you forsee the world experiencing something that we have read about happening during bible times? Did you wonder to yourself how those ancient figures could experience such catastrophe and not see that it was brought upon them by the hand of God, and that He was greater than they were? Well to understand those stories, and the seemingly unbelievable reluctance of those people to hear God, all we need do is look around us today. 

Calamity, Thorns, and Tornados... Trusting in the Lord

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, God’s Will, Goodness, Trusting God

When we are in the midst of some earthly challenge, or tragedy, and our prayers have been made, but the answer escapes us, or is not to our liking, do we begin to question God? Perhaps God intervenes, a miracle occurs, but it isn’t exactly what we have envisioned; do we approach Him with indignation and frustration because what He gave us wasn’t enough in our eyes? Well how do we, creatures of time, presume to think that our thoughts, or plans, are more perfect, good, or wise, than Gods will for us?

Asking for our Desires... and the Will of God

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Desires, God’s Will

When we are living and asking within the will of God, then He will give us our desires because they are His also. So often we misinterpret scripture regarding what God has told us He will give to us, and think that He has promised us all things without reservation ; including our earthly desires that fly in the face of God’s character, but that is not so. First we must ask within His will, or in other words... delight ourselves in Him.

Overcoming the Lies, and Hearing the Voice of God

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, God’s Will, Discernment

How are we living our lives? Are we living as the Spirit directs us, or are we living in the world, and for the world? Do we pray to obtain from God those things that bring Him glory, or for those things that are simply of the world, and that make us more comfortable in it? We must decide if we will live our life spiritually as the sons and daughters of God, or live it according to the flesh and die... what is our choice?

Finding Peace by letting go to God, and the Intercession of Jesus

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, God’s Provision, God’s Will

Are you feeling weak and afraid today? Is there something confronting you that terrifies you, and causes you to tremble, or makes you lay awake in the night... unable to sleep because of worry? If this is true then you are refusing to leave those things with the Lord. You are carrying them into your prayer closet, placing them in the Father’s hands, and then bringing them right back out with you at the end of your time of prayer. If this is you, then you are saying that you lean on God, and yet those are just words to you.

God’s Rhythm, and the Fingers that Tie our Shoes

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, God’s Will, Time

Do you find yourself impatiently waiting on the Lord? A car races off the road at breakneck speed, you finish a good book before you are ready, or you might come to the end of your life saying ”how did it pass so quickly!”, but when we deal with God there is a very different feeling to time. On many occasions the sense of urgency we apply to the happenings in our lives seems strangely absent with God, while at other times things happen in a flash.

Come and Dine; Becoming Accustomed to the Taste of the Divine

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Salvation, God’s Will

What is it that keeps most people from knowing Christ, or from sitting at God’s Table? It is the lack of having experienced the amazing grace that abounds there. In knowing only this world the unbeliever is reluctant to step across the threshold of faith into a place previously unknown... even if it might promise untold wealth, happiness, and experiencing the delights at God’s feast. Yet with one real taste of the love, mercy, and grace, of God through Jesus we are changed forever.

In God Less becomes More... He is Sufficient

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, God’s Provision, God’s Will

The Lord used the few to conquer the many in the story of Gideon’s three hundred men. He first used Gideon’s own fear as He sent him with his servant Purah to hide at the outskirts of the massive camp of Midian, and spy on them. Then God showed Gideon how to defeat Midian’s army by using their own great fear against them. God understands our fears, but more than that He understands the deep seated fears of our enemies. What are our fears, and can God use them to do His will? Can He use our few to defeat the many?

Overcoming Darkness with Light in the Sinful World we Live In

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Called, God’s Will

We live in the world, and we are surrounded by immorality, and sin, yet this is exactly where we belong. We are not being punished by being placed in this position, but offered the opportunity to make a great impact on the souls, and circumstances, of those that we come in contact with. Do you find yourself praying that you be removed from such influences, but wake up every morning in the same place? Well, don’t ask God Why He doesn’t hear you... ask Him why He has you there.

God’s Will in Prayer, Faith, Goodness, and the Work we do

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, God’s Will

Sometimes there is more to an illness than meets the eye. We ask to be healed because we are suffering, but do we consider the greater purpose of the Lord as we pray? The will of God, which is the same will that Jesus conforms too, is paramount to everything in our lives. We come to know God when He reveals Himself to us... or in other words... by His will, and we are healed when it is His will as well. A leper approached Jesus with that understanding, and was healed.

Faith, Holiness, and Repairing the Broad Wall that Surrounds Us

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, God’s Plan, God’s Will

Have we been working at completing the repairs to our broken and sinful lives? Have we been sufficiently separating ourselves from the world’s corruption that flails about around us? When Jerusalem was destroyed, and made rubble, it was repaired, and those repairs were not viewed as complete until the wall that protected the city from the world was rebuilt. What is the condition of our wall?

Piano lessons, and the Will of God

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, God’s Will

Doing the will of God means work for us; sometimes suffering, but it always requires work, or action on our part. However, we are impatient by nature, and if we had it our way most of us would prefer to have our reward without the work, action, or any effort on our part. As you faithfully seek to do the will of God in your life are you guilty of this? Do you waste time wishing without asking “What next Father?”

The Plans of Life; Are they Our Dreams or God’s Reality?

Richard Forbes
Christian, God’s Will, Daily Devotion, God’s Plan

Who plans your life? Are you busy laying out the future details regarding where you are going, what you will accomplish, or the places you will rest and take sustenance? If these plans are being made by anyone other than God then you will lead an unfulfilled life indeed. His plan, and His will are more than an aside... they are the sole road through life which will lead us to a joyous eternity with Him.

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