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Empower Missions

Joakim Hjortland

An Outworking of His Will, How?

The message tonight that I want to share is, or before I tell you a little bit about that, I just want to have a very short repetition from yesterday.

The key verse we talked about yesterday, we talked about the title was, was an outworking of his will.

And the key verse was Ephesians chapter 2 verse 10, which says, for you are his workmanships, created in Christ Jesus for good works.

Already prepared that you may walk in them.

I don't know it, I know it better in the reading by heart, but that's the essence of what it says.

Powerful verse, God has a specific plan for us.

And a key quote that we read which kind of I think quite well summarized, I shared many testimony stories of how I've seen God lead in my life and we had a living example of something already yesterday I think fitted well to the message.

But this quote, powerful quote, we kind of continue the thought where we left it yesterday so it's nice to recap it shortly.

Powerful quote from Desirators, verse 206 here it says, so utterly was Christ emptied of self that he made no plans for himself.

He accepted God's plans for him and day by day the Father unfolded his plans.

So should we depend upon God that our lives may be the simple outworking of his will.

This is how God wants us to live, that our lives may be as outworking of his will.

So basically what I am going to talk about tonight is how can our lives be an outworking of His will.

How can our lives be an outworking of His will?

And it's late, we have had a long day, so I will not, it will be shorter than yesterday what I will share, I will promise you that.

Though usually, or many times actually, if I say this will be the last text or this or that, it always have a tendency to come something more.

But I think maybe I said something yesterday and then it ended up sharing a little bit more than planned.

I guess 1 reason for that is You have this saying that I like, I think it's a good way.

You have this saying that we should, when it comes to preaching, we should prepare as though there is no Holy Spirit.

I partly agree with that, but the saying in total kind of makes a point that I like.

We should prepare as though there were no Holy Spirit and we should preach as though we have not prepared.

Where the words we should do everything we can in preparation, it's not like we shouldn't prepare and stand up and just say what comes into our mind.

But still, I think it's important to also be open for the Spirit's guidance as we share something, as we preach, as we witness, whatever.

So I try to follow that as I'm serving and preaching and sharing the Word.

But still, I think it will be shorter tonight.

We've had a long day, so I think it's important we rest.

So, basically, it will be shorter tonight.

And I plan what we will do actually is I will kind of start, I will share part of the message I have prepared tonight And then we'll kind of look on the last part of it tomorrow.

I have 1 more meeting tomorrow, so we'll kind of continue by then.

So I think that's a better way to do it and try to put everything in 1 message.

And it's actually quite interesting how it happened, how I got to prepare this message.

That's when I prepared most of the message.

And the thing was, this week I've had many meetings here.

Yeah, I'll have 1 tonight and 1 tomorrow.

And then I go straight up to Living Water summer camp, which is where I will share 5 messages the next few days.

And then I will be home for a week where I will work for days from my apprenticeship as well as move out from my apartment and prepare for Impact Norway the week after where I will share like 10 messages and pretty much all of the messages are different And so it's very busy weeks right now.

And the easy thing for me to do here would have been to choose another message than what I'm sharing tonight.

Many messages, you know, someone would present next week and whatever in the next few days that I think are powerful and important messages, but I don't know, I asked, when I teach or preach, I don't just want to share a sermon.

I don't just want to share a good sermon, a powerful sermon.

I want to share what God wants me to share.

So I was thinking and praying about what to share and I felt impressed though I in a way didn't really have the time to still prepare this message instead of taking another message.

So actually what happened was last week, was it, I think it was Wednesday, I actually woke up very, I prayed, I was thinking about this, I said, hey man, I don't have time to prepare all this, but I kind of sensed that God wanted me to share something along these lines, but I wasn't sure how I would manage to prepare it.

But I prayed, you know, that God would lead me, whatever, help me to prepare whatever He wants me to share.

I prayed, I like to pray sometimes in the night, whatever God may make me up.

Next morning, it's not like usually I have an alarm, but if He wants me to maybe go up a little earlier, He can maybe wake me up.

Next morning, it can be a little scary prayer to pray Next morning.

Actually, I woke up around 02:00 and That's usually usually I go I go to bed early and I usually go up like quarter to 5.

I start working pretty early so I have to start early but still not that early.

So I woke up at this time, not only that, I felt inspired to...

Sometimes in the morning I really sense that God lead my thoughts and put things together.

So basically the whole message, basically most of the message in that morning before I went to work, most of the message I prepared in that time and I felt that God was leading and So I trust that he has something that he wants us to take from this message that can draw us closer to him and his plan for our lives.

Let's have a short prayer before we get into the message, the first part of the message tonight.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for we can come together.

Thank you that you are a God that wants to speak to us.

And we ask pray that you may lead with your spirit, impress our hearts, speak to us, help us to understand and receive what you have in store for us, the blessing you have in store for us tonight and tomorrow.

There was this couple, they were getting married and as they were getting married they had some friends that came together and decided to give them a nice wedding gift.

They decided to pay for this very nice, to call it suite, this very nice room in a hotel that they could spend their wedding nights together.

So they paid for this luxurious suite, this luxurious place, hotel room.

And so this couple, they were told about this beforehand, you know, and they looked forward to this nice place, this nice time they would have in this hotel right after getting married.

And what happened was that they came to the hotel, the wedding was over, you know, and they went there and they came to the right floor, to the right door, and they looked forward to go in, you know, they had their expectations, They looked forward to see this great, expensive, luxurious place.

But as they went in there, in this room, they did so only to be terrible, terribly disappointed.

And they had some things there, they had a sofa there, they had some things.

But it was nothing like they had imagined.

They thought, man, is this a luxurious, most best room in this hotel?

They couldn't really understand it and they were really irritated and disappointed.

But they said, okay, well, it wasn't like we expected, but I guess we just have to do the best out of it.

And they had a sofa or something, they had something somewhere they could sleep and whatever, so They just did the best out of it.

And, but the next morning they came down to the reception of the hotel and, and, you know, they got to talk with some of the workers there and they came to share that they were not very happy.

They were very unhappy with this luxurious room in the hotel.

But the owner, the leader of the hotel, he couldn't understand, he like, what, weren't you happy with this room?

You know, like, for him it didn't make sense, you know?

So what was it that you wasn't happy with?

So Maybe we can go up together and you can show me what you didn't like or so they say sure and they went back to the room and they went into the room and they opened up and he said hey see is this a luxury?

You know This is nothing like we had expected.

But then the leader of this hotel, this manager, he went over to the other side of the room.

And there he opened this door that had the same color like the car, you know, what you have, the wallpaper or whatever.

And he opened this store into this big, luxurious, really nice hotel suite, this really nice room.

They had spent their night in the foyer, in the hall of this nice room.

And I think this, in a way, is a good illustration.

I think many times, many Christians, we stop in the fire when God really has so much more in store for us.

In our prayer life, many times we stop in the fire, but God wants so much more.

In our Bible studies, we stop in the fire, but God has so much more.

In our Christian experience as a church, too many times we stop in the fire, but God has something so much better that he longs to give us, that he longs to pour out His blessings, His Spirit on us.

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