Monday, January 14, 2013

You Already Know God's Will

The great heresy that brings many people in the Body of Christ into bondage is this notion that we have to run our lives by other people, so afraid are we that we may make a mistake, somehow step out of God's Will for our lives, or invite his displeasure.

First of all, we must be skilled in righteousness (Hebrews 5: 12), fully versed and renewed in our minds that we have been made the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 21), and therefore we can never invite God's displeasure in our lives:

"To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." (Ephesians 1: 6)

Any mistakes, sins, faults, failures that we have made, make, or will make are forever cleansed away by the Blood of Jesus:

"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." (1 John 1: 7)

We cannot step out of the will of God:

"Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." (Philippians 2: 12-13)

God gives us the desire to do the things that He wants us to do. We cannot step out of the will of God in that the will of God is always  at work within us. We may do the wrong thing, in that we are relying on our flesh instead of His Spirit, but even then we have nothing to fear:

"Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:" (Romans 5: 20)

and

"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." (Romans 8: 28)

God takes your failures and transforms them into successes, so fear not when you step out in faith, following the promptings of God's Spirit to do His will!

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