God’s Demands for a Response When Making a Request
God has always demanded from those who trust in him that “thine WILL be done on Earth as it’s in the heavens.” This means that when we are seeking God to fulfill our desires, we should recall to our attention that God has a formula, and if followed, it’ll bring us into covenant with God’s divine will (God’s desired purpose for us). And if God’s WILL means “God’s desired purpose for his people,” then it’ll produce the reality of our desirers and what we ask from him. It’s not wrong for the believers to crave for prosperity, because the Bible says in 3 John 1:2: “Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.” Here we see God’s desired WILL for the believers is first to be prosperous, in the things that concern his Kingdom (your duties and obligations unto God). Then we see another desired nature of God in John 3:2, where it says: “That thou Mayes prosper and be in good health.” This desire of God is concerning some of the materialistic possessions on earth for his people. But when asking God to bring into existence our requisitions, we must understand that God has a divine plan and it’s his desired nature that the believers acknowledge his plan and comply with it, applying it when asking God for the material things and making decisions and setting their goals in the world. The truth is, as God’s embody mortals living on the earth. We fail to receive some of our petitions from God, and, in addition, we don’t achieve our goals in life because we fail to follow God’s directions to accomplish success on earth.
Proverbs 3:5, 6 gives to the believers a good example of God’s desired will for their prosperity on earth: “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thane own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shell direct thy paths.” Following God’s plan may be difficult for some of the believers, because we have gotten accustomed to traditions and book knowledge that we feel has prepared us to have the intellectual abilities to make our own decisions and set our own goals in life and reach them. This type of attitude of believers can result in failures, thus blocking them from receiving their desirers from God. I suppose that the “reality check” of the believers’ rejection by God, of the ratification of their WILL (desires) and reaching their purposes on the earth, is that we don’t incorporate our physical desires with God’s principles, therefore failing to successfully attain the objectives in our life. God doesn’t delight in denying his children their propositions, neither does he pleasure in his people’s unsuccessfulness on earth. And this is why Jesus left directions based on his principles, directions that were meant to steer his people into the right directions when requesting God to provide our unmet needs and to be prosperous in the land. We need to be steered in the right directions based upon God’s standards when asking God to supply to us the materialistic things according to his WILL. We should first associate our substantial will (desire) with God’s principles, that is, God’s will for his children. The bringing together of the believers’ will and connecting it with God’s Word puts the man or woman of God in covenant with him and prepares them, to adjust to God’s laws based on his declarations while applying his values to satisfy the natural pleasures of this life. It will result in prosperity for God’s people living on the earth. The following scripture from Psalm 37:3–5 will aid the believers, when requesting from God to provide for them the necessities in the land. “Trust in the Lord, and do good so shall thou dwell in the land and verily thou shall be fed. Delight thyself also in the lord and he, shall give thee the desirers of thane heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in him and he will bring it to pass.” Relating these scriptures will serve as a guide in helping the believers to a rich and prosperous life on earth, if God’s WILL is to be ratified for his people based on: “Thy WILL be done on Earth, as it’s in the Heavens.” What procedures are to be undertaken and presented between our earthly desires and God’s desired WILL for us on earth? A good solution for the believers’ question stated above, in regards to their natural will merging with God’s heavenly WILL so that the reality of what they ask from God will be revealed on earth . . . is that the implementation of God’s tools and following God’s instructions based on his standards, will justify the realism of God’s children’s asking,