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Pastor Wilson’s message during YAS was a very enlightening one…

It was the first of the new sermon series called “Finding God’s Will”

[insert punny joke here]

Anyway, one thing stuck with me during his message… That is, the difference between God’s will and God’s decisions…

We all know that God’s will is unchanging. But then, why is it that situations are turned around when we pray? Have we changed God’s will??

Nope.

P Wilson raised the example of Moses and God to substantiate that. God had already made a covenant with Abraham, a long time ago, to make him into a great nation. But during the time when Moses was receiving the 10 commandments from God, the Israelites got terribly impatient and made a golden calf to worship and give thanks for coming out of Egypt safely…

What the Israelites did was terribly ungrateful. They basically turned their backs on God, who saved them, and worshipped an idol that they made. God couldn’t tolerate such behaviour and told Moses that He intended to destroy the entire nation and start a new one with Moses.

What was God’s will here? To make Moses a great nation? Or to make Abraham’s decendents more numerous than the stars in the sky?

It was the latter.

God’s decision to destroy the Israelites and rebuild it with Moses was His reaction to the sin of the Israelites. It was a consequence of the Israelites’ sin.

Moses recognised this and pleaded with God to pardon the Israelies from the consequence of their sin, and for God to continue to enforce His Will (i.e. to make them His chosen nation). Of course, there are other things to consider, like that God might have been testing Moses of his reaction to such news, wanting Moses to intercede for the Israelites, but we can’t go into that much detail here…

In the same way, when we pray, we are asking God to enforce His will and not the consequences of our sin. So at times when things turn around for the better, we haven’t changed God’s will. We have only asked God to enforce His original will.

Praying suddenly made sense!

Our job is to sieve out and recognise God’s will, and pray that He will enforce it. No matter what the situation may be. That was a revelation to me that God’s will is to prosper me, to give me a sound mind, to make me the head and not the tail… Things that I’d read in the bible before but never really grasped.

What has God been speaking to you? What is God’s will and promise for your life and your situation? Recognise it! And start praying it into being!

Been ages since I last heard that question…

It’s the question that pastors ask their worship leaders during altar call ministry time… The worship leaders are expected to hear or sense what God wants to do, find an appropriate song that helps to bring out God’s message, and play it on demand as soon as this question is asked… And our worship leaders usually have a song… I didn’t…Good thing P Kenny had a song in mind…

It made me wonder if that question can be used in places other than in services or cells…

When you had a long day, “what’s the song?”
When you are waiting for a job, “what’s the song?”
When parents are persecuting you, “what’s the song?”
When you are miserable and upset, “what’s the song?”

Asking that question makes you stop and think from a different perspective… What’s God’s purpose for such events? What does He intend to do? And how should we respond to Him?

More often than not, the response involves praising and thanking God… Even when it doesn’t make sense…