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...whether he will serve God and receive eternal life, or reject God and serve Satan and his own selfish nature.
The power of your will is based on yielding. If you yield your will to the temptations of your flesh, you become a servant , or in bondage to, those desires. If you yield your will to resist the temptations of your flesh and obey the Word of God, you become a servant of the things of God. It's as simple as that!
Romans 5:16 says...
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Regardless of the temptations or lusts of the flesh you feel warring against your mind, Christ has restored the power of your will so that you can yield yourself to Him in obedience to the Word.
Satan has not given up his attack on your will. Even though you surrendered your will to Christ and the power of sin was broken WHEN YOU WERE TRULY BORN AGAIN, his objective remains the same: to cause you to use your will to rebel against God.
REMEMBER: The will cannot act independently of itself. It must be fed through the thought processes...thoughts begin to fill your mind and if you allow yourself to entertain those thoughts, gradually you will feel your will getting weaker and weaker. Even seemingly harmless desires from their outward appearance are actually evil if they are inconsistent with the will of God. Scriptures tell us that we have the power over these fleshly desires, but we must yield our will to God to conquer them.
Have one goal...one driving desire...to see His will done.
Who WILL pay the price of total surrender of their will...?
In Christ,
Verna.
"...But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof."
Romans 13:14.
...whether he will serve God and receive eternal life, or reject God and serve Satan and his own selfish nature.
The power of your will is based on yielding. If you yield your will to the temptations of your flesh, you become a servant , or in bondage to, those desires. If you yield your will to resist the temptations of your flesh and obey the Word of God, you become a servant of the things of God. It's as simple as that!
Romans 5:16 says...
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Regardless of the temptations or lusts of the flesh you feel warring against your mind, Christ has restored the power of your will so that you can yield yourself to Him in obedience to the Word.
Satan has not given up his attack on your will. Even though you surrendered your will to Christ and the power of sin was broken WHEN YOU WERE TRULY BORN AGAIN, his objective remains the same: to cause you to use your will to rebel against God.
REMEMBER: The will cannot act independently of itself. It must be fed through the thought processes...thoughts begin to fill your mind and if you allow yourself to entertain those thoughts, gradually you will feel your will getting weaker and weaker. Even seemingly harmless desires from their outward appearance are actually evil if they are inconsistent with the will of God. Scriptures tell us that we have the power over these fleshly desires, but we must yield our will to God to conquer them.
Have one goal...one driving desire...to see His will done.
Who WILL pay the price of total surrender of their will...?
In Christ,
Verna.
"...But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof."
Romans 13:14.
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