People always want to know what God’s going to do.  Who knows what God’s going to do?  His ways are above our ways.  Amen?  What is God going to do?  He’s going to do His will.  We need to be at rest today in the midst of this lousy, crooked and perverse generation, and know that God’s will is ultimately going to be done.  Justice will manifest itself someday soon.  At the last decree, at the great white throne judgment, when the last sin is accounted for and answered to, justice will finally be established.  There will be a new heaven and a new earth, praise God.  Amen?  No more sorrow and no more tears.  Even at our best, even those of us that live in this Book, we’re seeing through a glass darkly, then face to face, hallelujah!

If you feel you’ve been treated unjustly and there is bitterness in your heart, and there are questions in your mind, it’s not over yet.  Amen?  I would encourage you that, having been treated that way, if you have enemies like that, pray for them.  Pray for their souls.  Pray that God would open their eyes and deliver them from themselves.  “What about those who have gone too far and tread the blood of Jesus beneath their feet?”  The Bible doesn’t say they can’t repent and come back.  The Bible is saying that there is no other way but Jesus and, if you refuse that one way, you can never be reconciled.  But, if you’ll humble yourself and repent, God is not willing that any would perish.  Amen?  Don’t ever let the way you’ve been treated create a bitterness or an unforgiveness.  That can cost you your salvation.  Because if you don’t forgive, you cannot be forgiven.  I won’t get off into that right now, but we were talking the other day about eternal security.  Are we eternally secure?  You’re eternally secure as long as you allow Him to be judge.  Amen?  If you want to put some doubt in it, just don’t forgive and see how far you can push grace and mercy, and refuse to repent, and refuse to humble yourself.  Yes, you can lose your salvation and be eternally damned after having tasted the good things of God.  Oh, it’s not a simple process, but it’s reachable.

As we’re talking here about prayer, just about that fact of letting this Word that’s alive and powerful continue to cleanse you and to deal with your soul.  It will then be the discerner of the thoughts and the intentions of your heart.  It’s hard to pray in faith when we’re doubting in our hearts, whether we have access to God or not.  Do you know Psalm 34?  Turn over there for just a moment.  Keep your finger here in Hebrews, but, as we look at this thirty-fourth Psalm, we’re all so very familiar with it.  The truths in here are just mind-boggling, as it shows the mercy of God.  It shows the great presence of God in our lives as the psalmist cries, “I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.  My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.  O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.  I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.”  Praise God.  “O taste and see,” verse 8, “that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.  O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.”  He goes on with these great promises, and we see, then, down in verse 18, “The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.  Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.”

Praise God.  How?  Through prayer.  How?  Through praise.  How?  Through resting in His promises and ceasing from our own labors.  Our warfare in the heavenlies is a warfare of prayer.  Stop trying to discover God’s will for your life and let Him live His will for your life through you.  You see, it unfolds one day at a time.  It unfolds one choice at a time.  It unfolds one thought at a time.  Amen?  Rest in the Lord.  Rest in the Lord.  Cease from your own labors.