Gods Will. Part three of the prayer Pamphlet by Ogden Kraut.

GOD’S WILL

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. (James 4:3)

There is a certain objective to all prayers and that objective is the will of the Lord. The Lord knows what is good and proper for us—much better than we do ourselves. If God answered all our prayers, we would, in a short time, become a ruined people. Even Jesus wanted the “bitter cup” of crucifixion to pass from Him; but He concluded His prayer with “nevertheless not my will, but thine be done.”

We think we know what would be best for us, but our desires would lead us into a life of ease, luxury and idleness. Such a life would be disastrous to our souls. We, too, must pass through a Garden of Gethsemane, maybe even required to “bear a cross.” If we seek an eternal life with the Lord, we must follow in His footsteps, learning obedience to His will. Solomon, in his wisdom, said to “commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him.”

The scriptures tell us that God “knoweth what things ye have need of, even before ye ask Him;” therefore, He awaits to hear our prayers to see if we pray for these things and to see if we desire His will to be done. It is our love for Him, a desire to do His will, and the prayers we offer to His cause, which are the things God desires from us. Prayer is the way He gauges our desires and intentions. When we learn to pray for His will, and seek to do His will, then is the time God is willing to open the doors of eternity to us—to bestow upon us all the kingdoms, principalities and powers of which He is in possession. He is willing, then, to have us to be “one with Him” in all things.