Your Will be done- Letting God Order From the Menu

"I'll have what He's having"

Matt 6:10-

Jesus teaches us to pray. He says "your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven" 

We pray this constantly-

God -your will be done. 

One commentary said 

The thought is not merely God's will realized in this or that action, whether performed or endured by us (. Matthew 26:42; Acts 21:14), but God's will as a whole coming into full being.

So Gods will coming into full being- how can we include this in our prayer lives? 

His residence in Us He - Christ Making us Whole

Praying "His will be done" is actually a prayer of surrender.

 pastor Levi Lusko said this---

"I'll have what He's having"

It really struck me and I want to help illustrate. 

Imagine you walk into a French restaurant. The entire menu is in French and you have no idea what to order. 

The person you're with is French born and raised he knows the menu inside and out and understands the language and He knows the cuisine. 

He orders.

Then you say

"I'll have what he's having."

You trust him because he knows- he has full knowledge of the menu and what is best - 

So you trust his meal selection 

Rather than ordering something that might be subpar or just out right gross you trust him you say I'll have what he's having.

That is what we are saying when we pray

Your will be done.

Jesus lives to make intercession for us. So we pray your will be done we are saying God you know my heart and know I would like to live in a different  neighborhood  or that I would like to see you work in this area but nevertheless I'll have what he's having -Jesus you have a better knowledge of me better than I even know myself and you know what I need so I'm going to trust you and what your will is for me, so if I have prayed anything that is not pleasing to you I give you permission to cancel it out ---I trust you. 

Another example is with parenting-

I don't know what it is about motherhood that can make us so sad at times---

We pray this child would be better at math we pray that child would mind her manners-

And why won't any of them clean their rooms. 

God I need help- ugh no God takes too long I'll just do it all myself-

I will whip this child into shape I'll get a tutor for the math and I'll clean their rooms myself ---

We in essence have an agenda a preconceived notion of what motherhood is supposed to be or what it's supposed to look like---

When it doesn't look right, we get grumpy mad at our husbands and sometimes even mad at God.

So what if your child likes to play in the mud?  let him. Pray and ask God to show you his heart for your kids.

Your will be done Lord, I'll have what you're having 

I share this because I want you to know that it's ok to want things- good things - but what you want maybe good, God wants to give you His best! We have to trust Him when we pray..

Really really trust him

Colossians 1:9 

"So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding."

Let Him order from the menu-

God is the chef, the inventor of the dish, the designer of the food menu, the creator and cultivator of every good and perfect gift, He knows- He knows what's best- it is not easy but may we yield to Him in our prayers and  learn to say your will be done! "I'll have what you're having Jesus I trust you"

Not Why, but What

Many parents with children on the spectrum are concerned about their child's ability to become potty trained.

The reality is they don't make pull-ups in size 10.

When you change a diaper of a five-year-old it's not pretty. Isaac's journey of potty training started like most other children around three years old. Then four years old then five years old ...

I  began to think he would never fully get it.

We tried all of the techniques --rewards chart, candy, stickers, praise, etc.

Nothing seemed to work. I even remember reaching out to regional center and asking them for help.

I need professional help! I need a full-time assistant that can follow Isaac around and take him potty every hour on the hour. I tried to get this approved by regional center but it did not go through. Finally, I  turned to fervent and specific prayer and continued to cry out to God.

Chuck and I were constantly praying and asking God to help Isaac  learn how to use the potty. One summer I became extremely overwhelmed. I had cleaned up poop from the restroom wall and my sons body and out of his underwear and out of his pants one too many times. I began to sob loudly.
"What Lord ?what is it you're trying to teach me through this? I'm not going to ask you why I just want to know what ??? what lesson am I supposed to learn from this?"

I did not get a booming voice from heaven. But what I got was an answer to my prayers. I was learning humility. God was teaching me to be humble and teaching me that I would need to be there for my son no matter how hard no matter the challenge and regardless of how downright gross it would be.

The Lord taught me in all of those potty training moments that there was nothing beyond Gods spotlight. God knows everything he knows the ugly truth, the pain, sorrow and the pit of dirt and shame ...

The religious leaders often scoffed at Jesus because he was reaching out to the rejected of the world the prostitutes the tax collectors.

These people were  the scum of the earth. That's sort of what I was doing. I was helping Isaac in one of the most challenging tasks. As I would clean my son over and over again, God was teaching me not to lose heart not to give up hope on my boy. God doesn't give up on us.

After literally years of working on this ---Isaac was potty trained and I'm proud to say it was through God's help and not one finger of an autism professional. God used me ---little me --to help my son overcome a huge obstacle ---something that would help him in his life forever-using the potty. This part of our journey is very hard for me to share because it really hit me to my core.

Not "why Lord?" But what Lord ?  what are you teaching me?? God wanted to teach me humility and to be able to wait on him and cry and try again. (Isaiah 40:31)

Still to this day I am so proud of my son for learning how to use the potty. It takes persistence and a lot of love and patience to help a child with autism grasp this huge lifelong skill. The reality is there are children on the spectrum and adults that can't do this. This was a huge breakthrough for Isaac this was a huge breakthrough for my family and just one little glimpse of what it's like on our journey with autism...
Phil 4:13