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The Power Of Being In The Center Of God's Will
Contributed by Dr. Stanley Vasu on May 6, 2007 (message contributor)
Summary: THIS SERMON IS ABOUT THE POWER OF BEING IN THE CENTER OF GOD’S WILL AND HIGHLIGHTS THE FOLLOWING 1.PURPOSE 2.PLAN 3.PROTECTION 4.PATRONAGE 5.PRAYER 6.PRAISE 7.POWER
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.
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your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
"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?
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?"
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.
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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."
"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.
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.
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?’ "
