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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Seeking the will of the Father - Pt.2

 There are many facets to seeking the will of the Father and we can most definitely look through the narrative of the entire Bible to see what that looked like for each person interacting with the Lord throughout. In the beginning chapters we see that the will of the Father for Adam and his wife Eve was to have dominion and to be fruitful and multiply. This is not entirely specific to Adam and Eve because this was the Birthright that Jesus inherited as the Son of God as shown in Daniel 9, 2nd Samuel 7, and throughout the laws and edicts of Moses. This is the most core will of the Father, and as we see in Psalm 8 I believe that this extends to a dimension far greater than just having dominion over the earth. It is out of this will that all other commands and wills of the Father comes out of and is rooted in.


In contrast one of the most common commands in the Mosaic law is "to not forget the Lord your God, for He is the one who brought you out of Egypt." By extension, and as accentuated in Deuteronomy 8 I believe that this command comes hand-in-hand with expressing gratitude to the Lord, not just for freeing us from slavery but for giving us the riches of housing, food, family, and love. However, it is said specifically that this was so that God could fulfill the covenant He made to our Fathers. This covenant was first made to Adam in the form of God promising that He would redeem the human line through the lineage that was to come from Adam. Secondly the covenant made unto Abraham, and thirdly to Moses especially during this time were what the Israelites were to be thinking of when God commanded this thing. 


We can follow the covenantal promises but more or less they fall along the same lines of being rooted in the principles of Authority and Gratitude. This is what the Holiness of the Kingdom is about and because gratitude and authority are rooted in love when you work with God, you can even apply this to "love your neighbor, and the Lord your God."  Because everything that the Lord does is rooted in these commands and these principles, we must carry with us the mindset that Loving the Lord our God is not separable from being eternally grateful and walking in our utmost authority. 


So when I'm in a town in the south-west of France with the various immoralities that you get with a coastal party vacation town, and I'm looking to win the town for Jesus, I must first be living and loving the command to Love the Lord my God with all my Heart, and not lifting my heart up but being conscious of the things that He's given me, and then out of that flow I know I bring power and authority to the environment around me. Then we see how He presently presents presence (and presents). 


With Love, Andrew