Where Eagles Dare

Jesus never did anything of His own will. Every day Jesus did what His Father was directing Him to do. Father’s perfect path led Jesus to His perfect destiny. Let’s imagine if Jesus just once would have gone off to do what He wanted to do! Some people might say, “What would be wrong with Jesus doing His own will? If He went around healing and casting out evil spirits and raising the dead wherever and whenever He wanted, wouldn’t that be great?” Answer is NO!

Father had an agenda that Jesus needed to follow exactly as shown and told to Him every day. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55: 8-9

God pointed out to me early the other morning the title for this teaching: “HIS WILL BE DONE”. People fail to see, and even worse, fail to accept and embrace the treasure that is right in front of them that God shows us over and over again in His Word. I was shown that this treasure of God’s perfect will for each of us on each and every day, is THE key that can unlock every door for a person! I was shown that this key was the biggest of all keys on a key ring! Let’s go to God’s Word and see what Jesus said.

“So He said to them, “When you pray, say: “Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.” Luke 11: 2

“I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.” John 5: 30 “Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.” John 4: 34

“Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.” John 5: 19 “But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do.” John 14: 31

HIS WILL BE DONE

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wasn’t what HIS WILL wanted She taught me this lesson to save me from myself. *Years ago, someone we knew decided he wanted to be a pastor (that’s a first clue to what will happen). His wife couldn’t decide what “she wanted to be.” She went from wanting to do deliverance, to healing, to intercession, to “ministry of helps” as she named it, then to counselling. He and his wife opened a “church”, a Christian coffee house and a clothing for the poor depot. Sounds wonderful! Yet, they fell into the trap of religion in several areas, They said, “we’re was where Father wanted her to be.

Jesus taught us by example that we are to willingly surrender ourselves to Father’s will, as He knows better than us where, what, when, why and how to act or not to act. When we decide that our thoughts and ways are better than God’s, we run into problems; we’re being disobedient and we aren’t fulfilling our destiny. Paul describes the spirit of disobedience as: “fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts of our mind." Ephesians 2:3 Paul warns us, “Therefore, this I say and testify in the Lord, that from this time forward you must not walk as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind”. Ephesians 4:17. Here’s an example of Paul being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia and Bythinia: “Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. 7 After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. 8 So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10 Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them. Acts 16: 6-10 Listen up now… Had Paul personally decided to follow his own will to do anything, under the reasoning that he was doing “God’s work”, he would have been in reality, outside of Father’s perfect will for him. Who knows what damage Paul would have done to himself, his destiny and the kingdom of God had he followed his own will. Sadly, most Christians today are following their own will. They decide what to do next. They don’t follow THE wisest teaching and greatest commandment given to us! “Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment.” Matthew 22: 37-38. To love God with all our heart, soul and mind is to follow HIS WILL in our life. Anything less is not love. SELF-WILL takes us into pride; problems; self-idolization; self-righteousness; salvation by works; disobedience; sin; failed destiny. HIS WILL takes us into humility; solutions; God-worship; God-righteousness; salvation through God’s grace; obedience; blessings; fulfilled destiny. So we WAIT until HIS WILL directs us! We don’t go on a mission unless Father says where and when (see Paul’s example again above); We don’t decide to open a “church”; a school; a soup kitchen; hand out tracts or conduct any other ministry acts unless Father shows/tells/sends us. It’s not rocket science! Wait; listen; then go and do! This is truly such an important teaching for us from Father! He’s guiding me through this teaching right now! Let’s look at some testimonies from spirit-filled leaders whose experiences can cement His teaching into our minds: * A very successful spiritual warfare teacher of mine many years ago tried twice to start a “church”. Both times it failed. He finally went to God to ask why these churches had failed. God said to him, “Did I tell you to start a church”? This wonderful, loving, and humble leader who only wanted good results, had wasted a portion of his destiny with his personal willful efforts aside from God. Lesson learned and he taught it to me. *Another very successful spiritual warfare teacher of mine many years ago trained in mountain climbing for a year and spent almost $100,000. to prepare for a mission with many others to climb Mt. Everest to confront a principality. This is a mighty warrior of God that had won many battles against the enemy. Sounds God-worthy doesn’t it? While waiting in Paris to catch a connecting flight to Nepal, Father spoke to her. He asked her, “Where are you going”? She said, “Father, I’m going to Mt. Everest, you know that”. Father said, “Did I ask you to go to there”? She said, “But Father, I spent all this time and money. I’m on my way there to do high level spiritual warfare. There’s a team waiting for me there”. She received silence from Father. She knew that this mission was her idea, not God’s. She repented and humbly asked Father, “What do you want me to do Father”? He said, “I need you to go back home and take the lead of the intercessory group praying for the Nepal mission”. She called the team in Nepal and told them she was going home and why. The mission was on, it’s just that her place in the mission

was exactly where Father needed her to be and for her personal destiny. She taught me this valuable lesson. I listened and learned. How are you doing so far? *Someone we know decided he wanted to be a pastor. His wife didn’t know what “she wanted to be” so she tried deliverance, healing, intercession, “ministry of helps”, as she called it; and then counselling. They opened a “church”; a Christian coffee-shop and clothing depot for the poor. All sounds great doesn’t it! They soon fell into several traps of religion, which included allowing deliberate sinners to remain in the fellowship. Their reasoning was that “we all are sinners, so who are we to judge. We just love them”. They attacked Rhoda and I when we pointed out to them that this compromise was contrary (the exact opposite/anti-gospel) of God’s Word. We parted ways. All three of these endeavours are today closed. They moved away to start yet another ministry somewhere else. If these places were planted and nurtured in HIS WILL, would they fail? Disobedience can look good to the world, but not to God. *Another leader pastored a church; did evangelism on street corners; and preached in a prison. A compassionate; loving and caring appearance to the world. Father brought him in the spirit into heaven to rebuke him for his self-will and self-idolization! The pastor was shocked and tried to explain he did it all for God. Father told him, “You did it all for yourself”. It was all self-righteousness and self-idolization. When he returned from heaven, this pastor changed his disobedient self-will to seek HIS WILL in all things. He wrote a book (Placebo) to warn others. No such thing as partial rebellion. I learned from this great warrior’s experience.

*A leader we know, whenever she moved to a new city because of a job, always ended up settling for a spiritually dead fellowship. The pastor would make her a leader of various groups, which she sought out and embraced as her own. She says that they rejected her efforts to bring in the Holy Spirit, when we asked. We pointed out to her that she shouldn’t be fellowshipping with those who reject the Holy Spirit. Her response was that God hadn’t told her to leave. (He also hadn’t told her to go there.) We advised her that God’s Word is very clear on

what to do when others reject the Holy Spirit. She got angry with us and stayed there anyway. We had no choice, but to break contact. God’s Word is gospel, not man’s. *A well known leader writes in his book (Risk Factor) that when he was a pastor he prayed for a woman who had cancer, and she died. He thought he killed her because he didn’t have enough faith nor was gifted enough. He says, “For 23 years after that disappointing experience, I did not pray for the sick”. He was backed into a corner one day by an injured man and so put his hand on his back, hoping he wouldn’t get worse. Nice prayer eh! He was instantly healed and many thousands since. For 23 years he avoided and even refused to pray healing for people! Never going to God for HIS WILL. Who was really in charge of this ministry? Keep in mind, these are all leaders that claim to be spirit-filled, who are providing us with their experiences. Think this can never happen with you? Read on.

*We have all heard of Derek Prince. I have many of his books and he’s taught me a great deal on so many subjects. He could never be led astray right? One of his testimonies was that he and a group of select spirit-filled men were meeting regularly for 10 years before he finally realized they all were making decisions on their own. He said he realized that they were pulling the Holy Spirit out of the corner whenever they felt they needed Him! So we see that this deadly trap of the enemy can grab anyone, no matter what their position or level of spirituality. This evil trap is very stealthy, as it is easily stepped into, and certainly has evil spirits attached with it, especially religious spirits (very nasty). The more a person decides to follow their own will, the more likelihood that evil spirits will convince them to make it more of a habit. Evil spirits will also pretend to be the Holy Spirit to divert people from Father’s will; convincing people decisions come from God. The deeper such a person is in the trap (human will or a demon’s will) the more anger can be exhibited when their disobedience of God’s Word is exposed to them. This trap leads to other traps of pride, sin and ignoring other areas of God’s Word. Can lead to loss of salvation when a person alters their belief system to follow human will and world view points. Becomes false Christianity and false Christian “churches”/ministries. False Christian ministries being run by the human or demonic will, leads BILLIONS into the same trap!

EXTREME WARNING ALERT! Reject the urge to be god! You ain’t HIM!

“So Samuel said: “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.” 1 Samuel 15: 22-23

Not enough room here to put all the scriptures of what happened to the Israelites when they followed their own will over HIS WILL, even when their will seemed innocent. The biggest problem a person will run into over time by following human or demonic will is when God turns away from you or attacks you, as He did with the Israelites so many times in history. “The LORD will judge His people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Hebrews 10: 30-31 Are you understanding this teaching? If you do, congratulate yourself, as most, even after they hear it again and again, continue on with or their own plans; following their own mind on what their life and ministry will look like! How many times did Israel drift back into disobedience and rebellion when they had history and their own prophets to warn them!

What commandment is greater than loving the Lord God with all our heart, soul and mind? What treasure is more worthy of our attention than surrendering to HIS WILL? Remember that He is the potter and we are the clay (Isaiah 64: 8). Go to Father daily, as Jesus did, for HIS WILL for your ministry and your life. Good Hunting!