"Free Will" Part 3 of 4...Thursday

7/31.14
If you would like to reread Parts 1 and 2 of this series here is the links...

1. http://paintgodintoyourday.blogspot.com/2014/07/free-willpart-1-of-4.html
2. http://paintgodintoyourday.blogspot.com/2014/07/free-willpart-2-of-4thursday.html

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We are Gods hands and feet he can do nothing without us.  He could not give back to man this earth without sending his son to die for us.  Do you not see the great sacrifice?  Do you not see what he did for us, he loved us so much he went to the cross took upon himself sickness, disease, poverty and death.  He gave back to us power and authority, he gave back to us our lives. 

FYI  I did not list all the scriptures, because I challenge you to set out and seek out this truth for yourself.  See what a mighty God we truly serve.

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Psalm 138:2 (New King James Version)
I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name For Your lovingkindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.

If God is really that sovereign, why pray? Why did Jesus spend so much time teaching on faith and prayer if we are just to accept everything as God's sovereign will anyway? It would be a waste of time to bring any petition before a God who just does what he wants anyway. But watch the news tonight and you'll see that the will of God does not automatically get done in the lives of sinners or saints.

If you believe that the will of God just automatically gets done, consider that 2 Peter 3:9 and 1 Tim 2:3-4 (among other places) say that God wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. Not all men get saved or come to a knowledge of the truth, so the will of God is not done in their lives. Therefore, the will of God does not automatically get done. God is willing to heal all diseases, too, but that will is not automatically done. The ones who get saved are the ones who believe for it. The ones who are healed supernaturally are the ones who believe for it. The principle is the same.

God does indeed do as he pleases (Psalm 115:3), but the devil does things that do NOT please God, and the Son of God was manifest to destroy the devil's works (1 John 3:8). This verse proves that things happen that are the will of Satan and not the will of God. For example, billions of people will end up in hell. That isn't God's will. The idea that just because something happens, it's God's will, is ludicrous. Just wait until you get sick next time and see if you really think it's God's will.

The Bible is full of people who prayed and changed things. Israel would have been destroyed if Moses had not stood in the gap. Thank God, Moses did not just say, "Okay, Sovereign I AM, you said that you would destroy them in an instant, so let your sovereign will be done." God extended Hezekiah's life 15 years after a prophet of God prophesied his immediate death -- because of Hezekiah's prayer!

You cannot read the Bible much without seeing numerous instances of prayer changing not only things but also changing how God was going to deal with a group of people. God would have spared Sodom for the sake of 10 righteous people just because of Abraham's prayer! This is totally contrary to the whole idea of a "sovereign God" who is little more than the Greek mythological Fates sitting up there determining who gets lucky and who gets the shaft today.

Written by
Kathryn Hanson