Summary: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/westside-christian-fellowship/id386117063">If you want to stay up on the latest audio messages from Westside Christian Fellowship, don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes.</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/1_29_2016_Gods_Will.mp3%20</a"><br><br> </a><a class="twitter-share-button" href="http://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/1_29_2016_Gods_Will.mp3%20</a"></a><br><br> Complete Sermon Notes<br> God’s Will – Simple But Not Easy<br> <br> Simple – “trust and obey” – but not Easy.<br> FALSE WITNESSES CAME AGAINST STEPHEN WHO WAS FULL OF FAITH AND POWER:<br> ACTS 6:15 And all who sat in the council, looking steadfastly at him, saw his face as the face of an angel. 7 Then the high priest said, “Are these things so?”2 And he said, “Brethren and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, 3 and said to him, ‘Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.’<br> <br> <br> This is the beginning of God’s people – Israel.<br> <br> <br> <br> We often only see portions of God’s will not the whole picture.<br> <br> <br> God often leads us by withholding information.<br> <br> <br> Challenges are not necessarily an indicator that we are out of God’s will – Mary traveling to Bethlehem, or Abraham leaving.<br> <br> <br> <br> 4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was dead, He [God] moved him to this land in which you now dwell. It could read – “then he obeyed.”<br> After obedience, then you can ask, “What’s the next step?”<br> <br> <br> <br> “Speak, for your servant is listening.”<br> <br> <br> <br> 5 And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him.<br> <br> <br> No immediate reward – God was his reward.<br> <br> <br> I’d rather live in a rental home…<br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/niv/Num%2018.20" target="_blank">Numbers 18:20 (NIV)</a> “The LORD said to Aaron, ‘You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them; I am your share and your inheritance among the Israelites.’”<br> <br> THEY DIDN’T GET LAND – THEY GOT GOD!<br> <br> <br> One way to test faith is to see what we are willing to give up.<br> <br> <br> <br> A study bible offers these five points on how the enemy, the flesh, and the world divert us from God’s will: 1. Doubt: Makes you question God and His goodness. 2. Discouragement: Makes you look at your problems rather than God. 3. Diversion: Makes the wrong things seem attractive so that we want them more than the right things. 4. Defeat: Makes you feel like a failure so that you don’t even try. 5. Delay: Makes you put off doing something God wants you to do so that it never gets done.<br> <br> 6 But God spoke in this way: that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bondage and oppress them four hundred years [how is this God’s will?]. 7 ‘And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will judge,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.’<br> <br> <br> Foretold to encourage His people – bondage & oppressed for 400 years in Egypt.
