We’re no longer conformed to this world, but we’re transformed by the continual renewing of our mind.  The renewed mind just thinks upon the things that are above, thinks upon the promises of God, thinks upon the commandments of God, that we fulfill His will.  Rest.  We don’t have to sit around and have sessions on how to go out and strategically reach the world.  The world would be reached overnight if each one of us would win one.  Amen?  It would solve our whole problem.  So, why aren’t we doing what God has commanded us to do?  Well, it’s sure not coming up with some campaign or methodology.  It’s going to come when each one of His servants, you and I, begin to burn, a fire burning in our souls, a fire in our bones that we cannot help but speak the things that we have seen and heard.  Amen?

“Well, we haven’t seen a lot of miracles.  Personally, I haven’t seen a lot, and they were seeing these miracles, and able to share them.”  You’re the miracle!  You’re the miracle.  Your hate being turned into love, your pride being turned into humility, is the miracle that we go and share.  Amen?  We are epistles that are read of men.  We are the light of the world.  We are the salt of the earth, praise God.  When they look on us, they should see Jesus.  “You mean, walk on water and turn—” No, no, no.  “Turn water into wine?”  No.  Well, what does it mean to see Jesus?  To see a man standing there saying, “I’ve not come to do my will, but the will of He that sent me.  I’ve not come to speak my words, but the words of He that sent me.”  Amen?  That’s a renewed man, a regenerated man.  Not my will, thy will be done.  When we pray from that kind of a life commitment, God hears our prayers.

He’ll change the circumstances—maybe—but He will definitely change you.  Amen?  That is what we’re looking for.  That’s what we’re looking for.  So, he says to cease, then, from all of these other religious activities and just rest in God.  He says in Hebrews 4, verse 12, “For the word of God is alive, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart.”  That Word, as we meditate in the Word, lets us pray according to the will of God.  That Word comes in and discerns the thoughts and the intents of the heart.  James 4:2-3 says, “Ye lust, and have not…because ye ask not…When you ask…ye ask amiss…desiring that ye may consume it upon your own lusts.”

How much of our prayer is lustful?  When I say lustful, I’m not just talking about whether it’s sexual or whether it’s some type of a physical appetite.  The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life, is all that’s in the world.  We ask amiss.  We’re asking for our will.  We try to put a smokescreen up sometimes.  Do you ever catch yourself doing that?  And, then, say, “Man, I can’t fool God.  God’s seeing right through this thing.”  How many of you have ever had the Lord pull you up short on some of those, at times?  I have.  The Lord just speaks and says, “You can fool other people, but you’re not fooling me.”  You’ve just got to say, “You got me, Lord.  Your will, not mine, be done.”

In the tragedies of life, as Job went through, your children are gone, your family’s gone, wealth is gone, your reputation is gone and you’re able to rise up and say, “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21).  Amen?  Hallelujah!  What a place to live!  What a place!  When we find ourselves abiding in Christ to that degree, we’re able, then, to say like Jesus did over in John 11, verse 42.  (You don’t have to turn there.)  “Father, I knew that thou hearest me always…”  Amen?  Isn’t it great to get up from your prayer closet and walk away knowing God heard you?  “I’m just absolutely content; God heard me.  He’s got this thing under control.”  “Well, what’s He going to do?”  I have no clue.