CHECK POINTS TO REMAIN IN GOD’S WILL - By PASTOR DAVID J. LEET, first published on 07/09/1999

INTRODUCTION

Psalm 37

Psalm 37 V 1:

37 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

FRET - Regret, worry, tormenting yourself over life’s issues and your needs. 

Matthew 6 V 34:

34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Take no thought for tomorrow (command).

Luke 12 V 25 & 26:

25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?

Matthew 6 V 25-34:

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

John 14 V 1:

14 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

John 14 V 3:

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

TRUST - Rely on integrity and justice of a person’s confidence and confident expectation or hope. 

Colossians 1 V 5:

5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

Hebrews 11 V 1:

11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

2 Samuel 22 V 3:

3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

Psalm 22 V8: (command)

8 He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

Psalm 25 V 15:

15 Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

Jeremiah 17 V 4:

4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.

Jeremiah 17 V 7-8:

DELIGHT - High degree of pleasure of enjoyment.  Joy.

7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Isaiah 42 V 12:

12 Let them give glory unto the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands.

Psalm 1 V 1-5:

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

V 5 - COMMIT - To give or entrust.  To bind by pledge assurance = covenant.  Hebrews - To roll your way up on God.  ENTRUST. 

Psalm 119 V 35 - (invitational command).

35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

1 PETER 5 V 7 - To roll is to move or be moved as a vehicle. 

7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

2 Timothy 2 V 20-21:

20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.

"VESSEL"

1 Thessalonians 4 V 3-4:(command)

V 3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

V 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

V 6 - A promise from God to you! Righteous - Upright and Virtuous. Morality in right standing with God.

V 7 - REST - Relief or freedom from anything that wearies, troubles or disturbs.  To be based or foundered or let depend.  As on some ground of reliance.  Hebrews = To be silent.

Jeremiah 6 V 16:

6 For thus hath the Lord of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

1 Corinthians 3 V 11:

11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2 V 20:

20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.

John 14 V15-16:

15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

John 14 V23: (Command).

23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Psalm 4 V 4:

4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

Ephesians 4 V 26-27:

26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

27 Neither give place to the devil.

Ephesians 4 V 17:

17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind.

Ephesisans 5 V 5:

5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Anger - Leads to an impulse to retaliate.  Wrath - fierce anger, deeply resentful.

V 9 - INHERIT - To take or receive property, a right, a title, as the heir of the former heir.  Hebrews = Lodge in goodness (promise)

9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

Matthew 5 V 5:

5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Meek- Humbly patient or submissive.11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

Matthew 5 V 10:

10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

DILIGENT - Careful Persistence, Conscientiousness.