Pray, Not My Will But Yours Be Done (Pt.2) (337) - February 14 2026

Truly I tell you, that you can pray all day, but if you are not praying God’s Will, then you are praying outside of God’s Will.
 
When we pray outside of God’s Will, those prayers are outside of the Kingdom of God. For example, a person prays "Lord, please bless my affair with my mistress. Bless me so I can continue to cheat on my wife." This is outside of God’s Will. Another example: "Lord, I don’t like my parent. Can you strike them down? The motives of these prayers are not rooted and grounded in the Lord, they are coming from a place not represented by the Heart of the Father. They are coming from those who have fellowship with darkness. This is outside of God’s Will. 
 
 - Pray, Not my will but Yours be done 
 - How are we to pray?
 - God’s Will starts with salvation
 - What does it mean to be born of the flesh and born of the Spirit?
 - Only God’s Word accomplishes and does not return void
 - God prepares the way for you when you live, pray, study, acknowledge, and do His Will
 
This program covers the following Scriptures from the Amplified Classic version (AMPC): 2 Corinthians 6:14-18, 1 John 4:17, John 8:12, Luke 22:42, Romans 8:1-2, Romans 8:5-11, John 1:1-2, Matthew 6:5-15, John 8:31-32, John 8:31-32, John 3:1-8, Romans 8:9-10, 2 Peter 3:9, James 5:1, Matthew 6:33, Isaiah 55:11, Psalms 23:1-6.

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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) And welcome back to yet another episode of Touch of God. My name is Catrice and I'll be delivering the message to you today. Today's message will be the continuation of Pray, Not My Will, But Yours Be Done. Only this is part two. For those of you who'd like to follow along with the Bible, we use the Amplified Classic version. Last week on Pray, Not My Will, But Yours Be Done, part one, we talked about the following. If you are coming to Jesus, then you have to do things in his will and his timing. If we are not seeking God first, if we are not submitted to God, if we are not placing God's will above our needs, we can't move forward in Christ. Why? This is the first step. You can't go past the first step without completing it. No one can do it for you. No one can pray this step into existence because it is an action required on your part. Many can intercede for you, but that exact action, you will have to take. We must be sayers and doers of the word. We must be pursuing the things of God. If we are only making wishes like God is an ATM money machine, that's not how God works. The lack of reading God's word can keep a person ignorant to the ways of God. Saying that you follow the Lord, but still are doing things your way and how you want is not submitting to God's will. Last week's topics. If you're not submitted to God, that's half the problem. If you're still doing things your way, then you are not submitted to Jesus. God's ways are higher. Only God's word accomplishes and does not return void. Serving the devil and praying to Jesus will not get you breakthrough with Jesus. God prepares the way for you when you live, pray, study, acknowledge, and do his will. This week on Pray Not My Will But Yours Be Done, Part Two, we will be discussing the following. Truly, I tell you that you can pray all day. If you are not praying God's will, then you are praying outside of God's will. When we pray outside of God's will, those prayers are outside of the kingdom of God. For example, Lord, please bless my affair with my mistress. Bless me so I can continue to cheat on my wife. This is outside of God's will. Another example, Lord, I don't like my parents. Can you strike them down? The motive of these prayers are not rooted and grounded in the Lord. They are coming from a place not represented by the Lord. They are coming from those who have fellowship with darkness. This is outside of God's will. Let's look at 2 Corinthians 6, verses 14 to 18. Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them. Inconsistent with your faith, for what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness? What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial, the devil? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? What agreement can there be between a temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. Even as God said, I dwell in and with and among them, and will walk in and with and among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Come out from among unbelievers and sever yourselves from them, says the Lord, and touch not any unclean thing. Then I will receive you kindly and treat you with favor, and I will be a father to you and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. So those of you who are seeking God and you're wanting to be his sons and daughters, that is a verse that is, it's telling you exactly how. The topics for this week are pray, not my will, but yours be done. How are we to pray? God's will starts with salvation. What does it mean to be born of the flesh and born of the spirit? Only God's word accomplishes and does not return void. God prepares the way for you when you live, pray, study, acknowledge, and do his will. Serving the devil and praying to Jesus will not get you breakthrough with Jesus. Let's continue the conversation and start with pray, not my will, but yours be done. Why do believers pray this way? Because Jesus prayed this way. When we become saved, we become followers of Christ. We not only follow what Jesus did, we speak what he spoke and we do what he did. Let's look at 1 John 4, 17, as Jesus is, so are we in this world. So we are doing what Jesus did. That's the idea. Let's look at John 8, verse 12. Once more, Jesus addressed the crowd. He said, I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not be walking in the dark, but will have the light, which is life. So if you are following Jesus, you will not be walking in the dark, but you will have the light, which is life. The same thing is true for the opposite. If you're not following Jesus, then you might be walking in the dark. Let's look at Luke 22, verse 42. Not our will, but yours be done. This means we no longer are living according to the desires of the flesh, praying to fulfill the desires of the flesh. Why? Because the flesh can never be satisfied, which can lead to lust of the flesh, addictions, cravings, desires that are based on gratifying the flesh. When we become saved and translated from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light, we pray and desire things of the kingdom of God. At this moment, you can do a self-check. Are your prayers based on things that fulfill the flesh? Let's take a look at Romans 8, one to two, to understand what it means to fulfill the desires of the flesh. Therefore, there is now no condemnation, no judging guilty of wrong for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the spirit. For the law of the spirit of life, which is in Christ, the law of our new being. So this is telling us to not walk after what the flesh is dictating to us, but we are to walk after the spirit, which has freed us from the law of sin and death. Let's take a look at Romans 8, verses five to 11. For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires, set their minds and pursue those things which gratify the flesh. But those who are according to the spirit and are controlled by the desires of the spirit, set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the Holy Spirit. Verse six, noun, the mind of the flesh, which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit is death. Death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter. But the mind of the Holy Spirit is life and soul peace, both now and forever. Verse seven, that is because the mind of the flesh with its carnal thoughts and purposes is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's law. Indeed, it cannot. So then those who are living the life of the flesh, catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature, cannot please or satisfy God or be acceptable to him. But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the spirit. If the Holy Spirit of God really dwells within you, directs and controls you, but if anyone does not possess the Holy Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. He does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God. Verse 10, but if Christ lives in you, then although your natural body is dead by reason of sin and guilt, the spirit is alive because of the righteousness that he imputes to you. Verse 11, and if the spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then he who raised up Christ, Jesus from the dead, will also restore life to your mortal, short-lived, perishable bodies through his spirit who dwells in you. Amen. So for those who are in Christ and who are looking to pray God's will, the Holy Spirit is going to bring you life and light, and you won't be in the darkness. And this is why it's so important that we're praying and we're living according to God's will. So how are we to pray? When we are praying, we want to pray and do what Jesus did, and according to the Bible, the word of God. Why? Because Jesus is the very word of God. Let's look at John 1, verses 1 to 2. In the beginning, before all time, was the word Christ, and the word was with God, and the word was God himself. He was present originally with God. Amen. So here is an example that Jesus left on how to pray. Let's look at Matthew 6, verses 5 to 15. Jesus teaching how to pray. Also, when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by people. Truly, I tell you, they have their reward in full already. But when you pray, go into your most private room and closing the door, pray to your father who is in secret, and your father who sees in secret will reward you in the open. And when you pray, do not heap up phrases, multiply words, repeating the same ones over and over as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for their much speaking. Do not be like them, for your father knows what you need before you ask him. Pray therefore like this, our father who is in heaven, hallowed, kept holy, be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven, left remitted, and let go of the debts, and have given up resentment against our debtors. And lead, bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever, amen. Verse 14, for if you forgive people their trespasses, their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment, your heavenly father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, their reckless and willful sins, letting them go, and giving up resentment, neither will your father forgive you your trespasses. When a person is not in the Bible reading, studying, they do not know God's will. It is not enough to just listen to scripture from a pastor. Practice looking up everything someone says to you to see if it is the will of God in your Bible. This protects you from being led astray. This way you know that you know that what you are hearing is the word of God. It is not enough to just say what others say. We must know the truth, study, because only the truth can set you free. Let's look at John 8 verses 31 to 32. So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in him, if you abide in my word, hold fast to my teachings, and live in accordance with them. You are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. We can see first that Jesus is very specific about who belongs to the Lord. So much so that he says how to be his disciples. Disciples are those who follow and do the will of God. Let's look closer at the words of Jesus in John 8 verses 31 to 32. The first thing listed are instructions. The list after the first three are the results of doing the first three instructions and following through. So the first instruction is first believe on him, which is Jesus. The next instruction in the verse is hold fast to my teachings. Then it says live in accordance with them, his word. So we can see here that these are actions. We are to hold on to his teachings. We are to believe in Jesus, and then our lives are not just about holding on to the teachings and reading the teachings, but it says live in accordance with them, which is his word. So when we do these things, then it says Jesus is saying abiding in the word makes you truly a disciple. So until we're abiding in the word, believing on Jesus and holding fast to his teachings, that means that we are not truly disciples unless we're walking in that path. And when you do that, you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Amen. How many of us want to be set free and God is giving us the instructions here? So it really is about listening to what God's word says and carrying out those instructions and living in accordance with them. That's God's will. God's will starts with salvation if you're looking to God's will and to pray God's will. We can go into God's will in the Bible and look at all that is God's will. However, for those who are unsaved, newly saved, or uneducated in God's will, they need to know the entry point of God's intentions towards them. Let's look at John 3 verses 1 to 8. Now, there was a certain man among the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler, a leader, an authority among the Jews, who came to Jesus at night and said to him, Rabbi, we know and are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, for no one can do the things, these wonder works, these miracles, and produce the proofs that you do unless God is with him. Jesus answered him, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born again anew from above, he cannot ever see, know, be acquainted with, the end experience, the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him, how can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb again and be born? Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and even the spirit, he cannot ever enter the kingdom of God. What is born of from the flesh is flesh, of the physical is physical, and what is born of the spirit is spirit. Marvel not, do not be surprised, astonished at my telling you, you must all be born anew from above. The wind blows, breathes where it wills, and though you hear its sounds, yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the spirit. What does it mean to be born of the flesh and born of the spirit? Let's take a look at Romans 8 verses 9 to 10. But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the spirit. If the Holy Spirit of God really dwells within you, directs and controls you, but if anyone does not possess the Holy Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. He does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God. Verse 10, but if Christ lives in you, then although your natural body is dead by the reason of sin and guilt, the spirit is alive because of the righteousness that he imputes to you. Let's look at 2 Peter 3 verse 9. The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what he promises according to some people's conception of slowness, but he is long-suffering, extraordinarily patient toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance. As we are praying, not our will, but God's be done, we need to know that God's will is that none should perish and that all should turn to repentance. We need to take time to think about that. As we are praying for different things, we need to truly understand that if we want breakthrough in our lives, we have to come to Christ. We have to be saved. We have to not be praying for all of these random things, but find out what God's will is so you can pray God's will and you can come to him because the Lord wants you to not perish. He wants you to be saved and he most certainly wants you to repent, which means to turn completely away from your sins and turn towards God. And that motion right there, believing in the Lord enough to repent of your sins and to turn completely towards God, is a part of translating you from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. Let's talk about only God's word accomplishes and does not return void. Why follow and pray God's will be done? Because only the things of God accomplish and do not return void. Just like only the prayers of the righteous availeth much, a person is made righteous through salvation in Christ. James 5 16 says, confess to one another therefore your faults, your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins, and pray also for one another that you may be healed and restored to a spiritual tone of mind and heart. The earnest heartfelt continued prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power availeth, dynamic in its working. We all want our prayers to accomplish and to availeth much. When you're praying, take note of these scriptures because that's what's going to make your prayers go forward, is you being righteous. And you can't be righteous unless you're saved. Everything is connected. Those who have not yet become righteous in Christ, pray unknowingly because they have not yet first sought the kingdom of God and righteousness. Let's look at Matthew 6 verse 33. But seek, aim at, and strive after first of all his kingdom and his righteousness. His meaning God's, God's righteousness, not your righteousness, not your neighbor's righteousness, not what your other people are saying is righteousness, but you need to know what God's righteousness is, his way of doing and being right. And then all these things taken together will be given you besides. When we follow God's instructions and we follow what the Lord is saying, then one thing leads to another, which is when we're seeking God and we're seeking his kingdom, and then we seek righteousness, that leads to breakthrough in your life. But if you don't take each step and do every last step that the Lord says, that means you're not following his instructions. You're not doing what he's saying. You're not translated from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. We want to do what God is telling us to do. Those who are not saved and do not pray God's will unknowingly do not know to only pray God's will be done because only his word accomplishes. Let's look at Isaiah 55 verse 11. So shall my word be that goes forth. This is God's word. So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth. It shall not return to me void without producing any effect useless, but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. For you shall go out from the spiritual exile caused by sin and evil into the homeland with joy and be led forth by your leader, the Lord himself. Think about everything that the Lord is telling you. Let's take a look at how God prepares the way for you when you live, pray, study, acknowledge, and do his will. Let's take a look at Psalms 23 verses one to six. The Lord is my shepherd to feed, guide, and shield me. I shall not lack. When you allow the Lord to do these things for you and you follow his instructions, you shall not lack. Verse two, he makes me to lie down in fresh, tender, green pastures. He leads me beside the still and restful waters. God can't lead you if you're not following him. Remember that. If you're listening to everything else and you're doing everything else and you're not following him, God can't lead you. If you look around and you say, what is it going to take for me to get to the still waters and the green pastures? You have to do what God says. Be obedient to his word. Be subject to God. Let's look at verse three. He refreshes and restores my life, myself. He leads me in the path of righteousness, uprightness, and right standing with him, not for my earning it, but for his name's sake. If you want your life refreshed and restored, you have to be walking with the Lord and walking in righteousness and right standing. That's how your life can be restored if you're seeking that. But you have to be willing to do these things, to live this way. Not a one-time thing, not just for a week, but this is a lifestyle. Let's look at verse four. Though I walk through the deep sunless valley of the shadow of death, I will fear or dread no evil, for you are with me, your rod to protect and your staff to guide. They comfort me. When our knees bow to the will of God and we are praying God's will and we are walking in his ways, he can guide us and walk us through these times so that he brings comfort to us as we listen to his word and we follow his word and we do his word. Let's look at verse five. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My brimming cup runs over. Surely only goodness, mercy, and unfailing love shall follow me all the days of my life. And through the length of my days, the house of the Lord and his presence shall be my dwelling place. Amen. A person must be willing to trust in the Lord. God is looking to continuously be faithful. God wants you blessed more than you even want yourself blessed. But in order for that to happen, you have to desire to not walk in the same way anymore and to not fellowship with darkness or partake in the things of darkness. And remember, it's never too late to come to the kingdom of God, to come to the Lord and to turn from your ways. That's what the Lord desires for you. So he can lead you to the green pastures and the still waters. And he desires to restore your soul and to restore your life to what it was supposed to be. God's word says, come all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. It says God is seeking to give you rest. He doesn't want you to be weary and tired. The question is, are you tired of being weary and tired?