{"id":185,"date":"2021-01-19T17:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=185"},"modified":"2021-02-22T07:06:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:06:51","slug":"your-will-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Your Will be done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We speak the words – but what are our shoulders saying?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFather, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless,not my will, but yours, be done<\/strong>.\u201d And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.\u201d (Luke 22:41-44 \u2013 emphasis added)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Too often, we parrot Jesus\u2019 anguished prayer as though it were a prayer of weak resignation, when, in fact, it was a war-cry of obedience.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When He first said \u201cnot my will, but Yours\u201d , He was defying mankind\u2019s ancient satanic rebellion against the Creator. He was defying defiance, rebelling against our rebellion, shouting an eternal \u201cNO!<\/strong>\u201d to Satan\u2019s rage against the rule of God. Unless we understand that, for Jesus, obedience and joy are inseparable, we cannot pray \u201cYour will be done\u201d as Jesus prayed it and meant it. It\u2019s the prayer of a Good Son to a Good Father. It\u2019s the prayer of the One who is truly free to win freedom for others\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, if this gets us thinking in \u2018either\/or\u2019 terms – \u201cit\u2019s either my will or God\u2019s. Something has to give\u2026\u201d – we\u2019re missing the point. When Jesus followed \u201cnot my will\u201d with \u201cyour will be done\u201d we can\u2019t exaggerate the scale of this victory. As a true man of flesh and blood, Jesus\u2019 flesh recoiled from the ordeal ahead \u2013 but the Holy Spirit empowered His humanity and, in the time it took Him to wrestle in prayer, He was given the strength to stay on course \u2013 The Father\u2019s will had always been His will. Not even the intense agonies of the flesh could change that. There was no \u2018instead\u2019 here.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was not laying aside His own will in favour of the Father\u2019s will. His will and the Father\u2019s will were as seamless as His robe \u2013 then, as before. He had always said that His only will and delight was to do the Father\u2019s will (John 4:34; 5:30; 6:3839). He had no personal agenda at any point \u2013 only the Father\u2019s (John 5:19-20), so now, having looked the horrors of death and hell squarely in the face, He stayed at His costly post \u2013 and found His joy in the Father\u2019s will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a man \u2013 made like us in every way \u2013 learning that the path of obedience and the path of pure joy are one and the same: \u201cI delight to do Your will\u201d. (Ps 40:8). Jesus\u2019 anguished cry of obedience was the war cry of the One Man who began life truly free of humanity\u2019s satanic rebellion and, through obedience, stayed free<\/strong> to rescue sin\u2019s slaves. The sinless Son had reclaimed mortal freedom and could now make countless other mortals \u201cfree indeed\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s because we are<\/strong> free, not because we will be, that we can pray Jesus\u2019 prayer \u2013 making His prayer our own and, empowered by the same Spirit who raised our Saviour from the dead, embracing Father\u2019s will as our free will. Satan is defeated. Victory is ours. We are no longer slaves to sin but glad slaves to righteousness. The seemingly unbreakable patterns of sinful habit in our lives are not invincible. The eternal covenant is unbreakable. The Blood of that covenant is invincible. The power by which God Himself works in us for His pleasure is unconquerable. The grace that keeps us sinners free of condemnation has no limits.\u201cYour will be done\u201d is both our battle cry and the prayer of true freedom. Prayer and weapon are one. Glory to Jesus! I came across a lovely old tune in Mission Praise. The first phrase started a rhythm in my head: \u2018Your will be done\u2019\u2026 I followed the track and the verses opposite are the result. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your will be done<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Words \u00a92017 by David Andrew Tune: Mission Praise 441 \u2018Cloisters\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dYour will be done\u201d       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– the truest prayer of freedom;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your sel\ufb02ess Son       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

has won us for Your Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour will be done\u201d       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– His sel\ufb02ess life so shape us Make us like Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot unto us,       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

but to Your Name be glory\u201d,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of grace,       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

we live to tell your story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spirit of Truth,       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

may Jesus\u2019 love compel us \u2026send us and spend us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evil is strong       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Your enemies are raging<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our children\u2019s minds       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

with lies they are engaging<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In weakness, strong,       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

we look to You for vict\u2019ry – our foes forgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour will be done\u201d       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On earth as in Your Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is our prayer,       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By grace our hearts are driven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glory to You       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our God and King unchanging Glory to Jesus!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truth2Go!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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