Your people shall be willing

Psalm 110:1 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power… The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind. He will shatter leaders all over the world… he will shatter kings on the day of his judgment.

STEPHEN ACCUSES ISRAEL OF RESISTING THE HOLY SPIRIT
Acts 7:51 "You stiff-necked heathen! Must you always resist the Holy Spirit? But as your fathers did, so do you! Name one prophet your ancestors didn't persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered. 57 drowning out his voice with their shouts, they dragged him out of the city to stone him. The witnesses, the executioners, laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul who consented to his death.

GOD SUBDUES PAUL’S RESISTANCE
Acts 9:4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord? Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. You’re making it hard for yourself, resisting my prodding of your conscience.”
Galatians 1:15 Before I was born, God had chosen me to reveal his Son through me
GOD SUBDUES OUR RESISTANCE FOR OUR SAKES AND HIS PURPOSE.
Philippians 2:13, Romans 2:4, Philippians 3:21 He will … subdue all things to himself.

OUR CONSCIENCE CAN JUSTIFY RESISTANCE
It is so easy temperamentally and circumstantially and even religiously to justify our resistance because of what WE think is right and wrong. Paul and Peter both had a religious conscience. They used the letter of the Law to resist the New Covenant law of grace. They wanted the letter of the Law instead of the still small voice. We get to hear the still small voice of Holy Spirit who arbitrates in every situation rather than legislates, because we like to legislate with Scripture.

HOLY SPIRIT CREATES IN US A NEW CONSCIENCE
This new conscience persuades and empowers our will to align with his will.
Hebrews 9:14 –Christ’ blood purifies our conscience from our self-serving effort to serve the living God.
Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near (PRESENCE PRAYER)with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience (Evil=harmful – our sense of right and wrong(wrong tree). The New Covenant promises the transformation of the heart’s desires and intentions of God’s people.
So who are we to resist him?
Ezek 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My ways. God does this despite the resistance of His people. God says ‘Ask me’.
Vs.37 I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them.
This is God’s Grace, his subduing power to change the intentions of the heart, and he asks us to work with him for our own subduing and transformation.

David asked God for this (Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God…). Pray this with absolute confidence (God’s prayer?). Why not pray the prayer of what God wants instead of only what we want?