TURNING OVER MY WILL AND MY LIFE

The experience of life outside the will and care of God for us is helplessness and frustration.  The good news is, when we respond to God’s gracious offer of a new life in relationship with Him, we become His beloved children and all of God’s resources are made available to us. 

This new identity is God’s gift to all of us who believe that Jesus’ death on the cross paid the debt for all our sins – past, present, and future.  As we repent of our self-will and turn our will and life over to God’s care, God’s Holy Spirit comes to live within us and empowers us to choose to follow God’s principles.  In a way that may surprise us and others, we will become individuals who truly want to please God and find satisfaction in doing so.  How does God bring about this incredible transformation in us?

It is impossible to please God without faith.  Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.  If we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. (Hebrews 11:6, 1 John 1:9 NLT)

Turning our will and our life over to the care of God always involves action.  If we say that we have entrusted our life to God, but no change is evident, then we are only fooling ourselves.  Accepting Jesus’ payment for our sins on the cross brings us freedom from the bondage of sin and death plus eternal life with our Heavenly Father.  We must pay close attention to the Word of God as written in the Bible and allow God’s Holy Spirit to direct us in all our affairs. Effective recovery is built on God’s principles for living as we allow them to shape our thinking and behaving. We must also be aware that the powers of evil will battle against our will as they desire to keep us in bondage.

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.(Ephesians 3:21-22 NKJV)

Prayer:  Loving God, I don’t understand how everything will work together for my good but in faith I put my trust in You and rely on the finished work of Jesus on the cross to make me whole. I repent of my sins and believe they are forgiven. Through the blood of Jesus, I stand cleansed and whole in Your presence.  Please help me to walk daily by faith and not by sight.  Amen