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Joakim Hjortland

An Outworking of His Will, How?- Part 2

We've been talking about how God, we are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God already had prepared that we might walk in them.

We have talked about how God has a plan in his book.

God has a plan for every year, for every week, for every day of our lives and he wants to lead us into his great glorious plan for our lives.

1 of the key quotes that we have read, I want to read it again, it's a powerful quote from the Siravides.

It's on page 260, it says here, 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?

Many times you read that Christ said, My time has not yet come.

He was so in tune with God, he knew what to say, what not to say, how to act, because God revealed to him morning by morning His plans for him, and his life became an outworking of God's will.

So we have been talking about, or yesterday, Message United is a continuation of that.

We started to talk about how, first we talked about this is God has a specific plan, God has a perfect plan for our lives, he that created us, that knows us, that knows best what will give us peace and joy and meaning in life.

But then we started to talk about how can this be?

How can this be our experience, you know, like it was for Christ?

And we're looking at some key principles.

Yesterday we looked at, just to repeat, we looked at first, you know, we must believe it's possible.

Must believe that God will show us just what course to pursue.

As the quote we looked at said, you know, that God in all thy ways acknowledging man, he will direct our paths.

He will both our ways and our paths, big decisions and small decisions.

If Peter didn't believe it was possible to walk on water, he would not have walked on water.

Another thing we looked at is a condition for this is a full and continual surrender.

Also, we talked about this experience of how God wants so much more we stop in the foyer instead of going into this great hotel room.

Many times our Christian lives we stop with something so much less of what God God is pleased when we expect large thing from him we talked a little bit about and read his quote.

So full and continual surrender is a condition.

Another thing we talked a little bit about in Reddit's quote.

Another thing we talked a little bit about yesterday is we need to live a life of unceasing prayer.

Pray without ceasing, Paul said, a life of unceasing prayer and fasting.

You know, like every step, you know, like Tinni in Finlay, right?

Pray that God may lift up our legs as we walk on our spiritual journey.

It's only in his power and we are dependent on him at every step to really live the life of a Christian.

And then we looked at 1 more thing, and that was we need to learn to know God's will, how to know God's will.

We just talked briefly about it, so Christian, my brother, will talk more about it later.

And by the way, 1 thing that I think, as we talked about this, I think it was very interesting, you know, I pray that God may maybe give us an experience that could kind of illustrate what we are talking about in this message.

And I think the experience of Reza was kind of just how he clearly believed that God led him here.

You know, never for years, he never took the wrong metro, but now it's so happened and he met us and he came here.

And he said actually, yesterday was interesting, yesterday evening down here, he was helping after he had helped cooking.

He said to Freja, it was you that saved my life, he said.

Because she was the 1 that invited him to this free food demonstration.

And he's really convinced that God led him here and I think it has been, I mean, it's like a turning point in his life.

It seemed like it has meant a lot for him to come here and that's how he, yeah, what he's communicating as I've been talking with him.

So God is working through the efforts we are doing and it's good to see how he has a plan and he leads and he is working in people's lives as he always does when we go out.

So We'll continue, we'll look at some more keys and kind of finish up this message we have been talking about.

And yeah, but let's just have a short prayer before we continue.

Dear Father, we pray again that you will lead us, help us to understand, speak to us through these things, that our life may be an outworking of your will, Lord.

We may grow from faith to faith, day by day, from glory to glory into the likeness of your son.

Okay, the next thing I want to talk a little bit about, another key for living the life of a Christian, that our life may be an outworking of the will of God, is to be still before God.

I want to read 1 more quote from Christ's Abbey lesson, a really powerful quote about Christ, which I think is a good summary of what we see when we read the Gospels of how Christ lived his life.

Christ was continually receiving from the Father that He might communicate to us.

From hours spent with God, He came forth morning by morning to bring the light of heaven to man.

Daily, he received a fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit.

In the early hours of the new day, the Lord awakened him from his slumbers, and his soul and his lips were anointed with grace that he might impart to others.

His Words were given him fresh from the heavenly courts, words that he might speak in season to the weary and oppressed, quoting from Isaiah 50, verse 4, powerful verse.

So Christ took time, communion with his father, communion being still before God.

There is another really powerful quote talking about this, it's in the service, I don't have it up there, but it says, we must individually hear him speaking to the heart.

Listen to this, when every other voice is hushed and in quietness we wait before him, the silence of the soul makes more distinct the voice of God.

He bids us be still and know that I am God.

Here alone can true rest be found and this is the effectual preparation for all who labor for God.

So it says you know in the quietness when we are quiet before God you know when we close out all the sound, all the noise of our society, that's when the voice of God is more, most distinctly heard.

That's when we most clearly can hear the voice of God.

I don't have it here, but it's this illustration of, it's like a picture, drawn picture of someone with so much noise, so much things, so much around him.

I don't almost remember, but basically it's illustrating, yeah, he's kind of wondering why he doesn't hear God or something like this.

And he sees so much noise around him, so how could he?

It's like so many times, You know, God wants to speak to us, but the problem is that we don't come before him and wait before him to listen.

It's kind of like imagine a couple driving down the road with a car and you know the window is open, the radio is on, and you know, the husband is driving and he has all these thoughts, he's thinking about what he needs to do for his work and whatever.

And even though his wife is sitting beside him trying to speak to him with her, you know, soft and tender voice, he don't get it because he saw so many things there, you know, and it's not that she doesn't want to speak or try to speak to him, but he's just not in the mood open, you know, to listen and give her the attention she would need.

I think many times that's how it is with us and God.

God, you know, it's a powerful quote in Steps to Christ.

It says that, oh sorry, it's in Book of Prayer.

It says, Christ is ever sending messages to those who listen for his voice.

Christ is ever sending messages for those who listen for his voice.

He wants to give us, impress our thoughts, lead our thoughts with his spirit, but we need to be still and wait before him in the quietness, in prayer, in, and you know, it was, and this is really a key, this is how Christ lived his life, and in order for our lives to be an outworking of his will, this is a very important point.

You know, many times we pray, but many times when we pray, we just talk and talk and talk, and that's it, and then we go.

You know, we don't have time to understand what God wants to teach us and what he wants to try to impress our thoughts and as we pray or as we study the Bible as well sometimes we have to read them we don't really stop them you know.

You know but it was when Moses was it was when he was communing with God on Mount Sinai, when he was still before God, that's when he received the 10 Commandments.

That's when he received the instruction to build the sanctuary and many different things.

God instructed him, he led him as he was still before him communing with him.

Elijah, the prophet Elijah, it was when he was on Mount Horeb, you know, waiting before God that he heard a still small voice And that he was instructed to anoint Hazal to be king over Syria, Jeho, Jeho or however you say it in English, to be king over Israel and Elisha to be prophet in his place.

It was when he was communing with God that God gave him these thoughts.

And it was as Christ was communing with his Father morning by morning that God gave him the tongue of the learners, his essence in Isaiah, and words to speak in season.

And I've experienced many times as I've been praying and waiting before God, that he gives me thoughts and ideas And I've seen that he leads in a way that, you know, when I take time for this, and for instance, it was as I was spending time out in the forest in Sweden to recharge the batteries and commune with God.

That was actually when I got the idea to write the book I've been writing the past year.

And so many times, you know, sometimes we miss these things.

We miss, we don't get what God wants us to do because we don't stop, we don't wait before God.

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