Synopsis of Bible Study October 28, 2020

Delivered by Bishop Joseph W. Walker, III, D.Min.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 NKJV
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

I. INTRODUCTION

1. How willing are you to write a blank check with your life? Wanting to be in God’s destiny for our lives is one of our biggest challenges we have in life.
2. Take a moment to examine why you want to do what God desires for your life. Is the reason because you want to know God or is it that you want to know the formula or plan that God has for your life?
3. While on your journey, don’t allow trying to figuring out God’s will for you to become an idol. You should never pursue the Lord’s Will over be pursuing God Himself. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteous and all these things will be added.
4. We look for the spiritual GPS to tell us where to go. What we really want to know is the future, instead of knowing God’s will. We have to be open to the preparatory process.
   1. Psalms 37:3-6 Trust in the Lord, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit[a] your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass. 6 He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your justice as the noonday.-Read full chapter- The scripture is telling us not to be all over the place. As a consequence, he will give you the desires of your heart. Be committed to what God wants to do in your life and he will bring it to pass.

II. HOW TO SEEK GOD’S WILL

1. Walk With God And Not Against God
2. Train yourself to walk with God. Discipline yourself and God will do more in this area in your life
   1. Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. – Trust in God and he will tell you where to go. Ex- Bishop Walker explains that when he first come to Tennessee, he came to Mt Zion Church, because that is where God had sent him. This church didn’t look like what he expected and even the music didn’t sound like what he was used to. Instead of staying, Bishop left and went to another church down the street. This really didn’t do any good, because God sent him right back to Mt Zion. When he got there this time, an elderly lady says, “You must be a preacher. Let me take you to the Pastor”. The rest is history.
3. The point here is, you have to trust when God is telling you something.
4. God puts you in a place not for your right now, but instead your “not yet”.
5. Trade Your Will For God’s Will
6. Bishop explains that he wanted to be a lawyer, but God said, he would be a preacher. God knows His plans are better than ours could ever be.
   1. Romans 12:1-2 NKJV I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
7. Obey What You Know To Be God’s Will
8. Once God reveals to you, what he wants you to do, then you have to obey God’s will, no questions asked.
9. Psalm 23:3 NKJV He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. – Scripture is not proposition. It is to reveal God’s plan to you.
10. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 NKJV All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. –

4. How Has God Wired You? Only you can do what God has called you to do. Bishop explains how wired and high strung he was when he was a child. He stayed in trouble, because he just couldn’t sit still. Now look at him. All of this energy was needed for the assignment he is doing right now. Pay attention to your desires and sensitivities.
5. Gain Sensitivity To The Spirit Of God – Ask God what He is doing in your season.
6. When you pray, don’t pray and just pray and get up. Sit there, be quiet for a minute and then let God speak back to you.
   1. John 10:27 NKJV My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. – Just because you have been saved for a long time, don’t mean you automatically are in the will of God.
7. If you are not sensitive in this season, you won’t pick up on what God is saying to you.
8. Humble yourself. Are you doing things for the right reason?
9. Come out of your comfort zone. If you consistently seek God’s will for your life, you will come out of your comfort zone.
10. Listen to your heart.
11. Give God Authority Over Your Heart
12. Psalm 37:4-5 NKJV Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit[a] your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass. – God will give you the desires of your heart, not of your flesh. We want to be in tune of God’s will for our life, so that we might to have the right desires of our heart.

III. THREE STEPS TO ENSURE YOU ARE ALIGNED WITH GOD’S WILL

1. Allow God To Open And Close Doors
2. Paul – The Macedonian Call
3. Sometimes God will block a thing, because he doesn’t want you to go there.

Acts 16:6-9 NKJV Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in [a]Asia. 7 After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the [b]Spirit did not permit them. 8 So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” – Closed doors show us explicitly what God doesn’t want us to do. Don’t miss the open door trying to force your way into doors that are closed.

• God will sometimes disrupt stuff. What He is doing is closing that door.
• David Saves The City Of Keilah
• 1 Samuel 23:9-13 NKJV When David knew that Saul plotted evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.” 10 Then David said, “O LORD God of Israel, Your servant has certainly heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city for my sake. 11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O LORD God of Israel, I pray, tell Your servant.”
  And the LORD said, “He will come down.” 12 Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” And the LORD said, “They will deliver you.” 13 So David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah and went wherever they could go. Then it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah; so he halted the expedition. – Saul is on his way to Keilah, because he knows David is there. Saul was going to kill him and everyone else there. Once the Lord told David that the people of Keilah would give him up, David escapes and as a result, the people of Keilah was saved. Once Saul realized David had escaped, he decided not to go to Keilah.
• Paul – The Will Of God Comes With God’s Fragrance
• 1 Corinthians 2:12-17 NKJV Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. 13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. – There is a scent you have when you walk in the spirit. People can sense when you connected to God.
• Be Willing To Wait
• Lamentations 3:25-26 NKJV The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him. 26 It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the LORD. – It is good to wait on God.
• Pursue Only What Will Bring God Glory – Be sure to desire the things that are in God’s will and not things that God forbids.
• 1 Corinthians 10:31 NKJV Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
• Matthew 21:28-32 NKJV “But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go, work today in my vineyard.’ 29 He answered and said, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he regretted it and went. 30 Then he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, ‘I go, sir,’ but he did not go. 31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to Him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but tax collectors and harlots believed him; and when you saw it, you did not afterward relent and believe him. –

IV. MY WILL VS. GOD’S WILL?

• John 5:30 NKJV I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.
• Philippians 2:13 NKJV for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. –

When you arrive at the crossroads of God’s will:

1. Recognize
2. Jesus warned us we would be treated like the world treated him.
3. 1 Peter 4:12 NKJV Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you;
4. Remember
5. 1 Corinthians 10:13 NKJV No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it
6. Reflect – The same way athlete trains, we must train our spirit. We have to feed it spiritual things and we have to condition it.
7. Refuse – The way you conduct yourself in hard times is evident of God working in your life.
8. Philippians 1:28 NKJV and not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a proof of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
9. Resist – The next time God’s will and yours don’t see eye to eye, realize that you don’t know all the circumstances. We don’t see what God sees. Gods will for your life is good, acceptable, and perfect.