02/09/2023
Will Power
l understand what it means to say you or someone lacks wil power. the truth is we have too much will
power! Our lives are dictated by our own will. The drug attic, alcoholic, adulterer, food attic etc. do their
choice addiction out of their own wil. They do it so they can find a few minutes of self-gratification. At
the end of the day, we are a product of our own will.
The only way to truly overcome addiction and sin is to submit to someone else's will. When we give
ourselves fully to the Lord our desires change, we seek to please him and not ourselves
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
And he went a little farther, and fellon his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be
possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I wil, but as thou wilt.
2 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not
pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done
Jesus never told anyone that came to him that everything is going to be easy for you now. What
he did say is that we will have to lay down our lives and die out to our flesh and the lust thereof.
24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow me.
Jesus has called us to a place of death, of laying down our lives in submission to the will of God.
If we walk according to our will and our desires, we hide the life of God behind our wretched
lives. However, when we die out to ourselves and our will, Christ will come alive in our lives and
be a bright shining beacon of hope to a lost and dying world. Jesus will never force us to lay
down our lives it is a daily choice.
15 And if it seems evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will
serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the
flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell. but as for me and my house,
we will serve the LORD.
The scripture above asks a question. What are you going to do? Are you going to rely more on
old going man submit that will to yourself power man the one that has gotten you into your current situation?
that
become the will obedient of God. unto It is a death choice how even much dying more out will to we?\ the flesh is a Or are choice
you
every day If Jesus had to
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross.
When we fully commit ourselves unto the Lord, he will meet us there. lf we truly repent
and are born again God will come in and change our desires. He will change our hearts
so that it's his will that we are pursuing and not our own.
6A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take
away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
7 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away,
behold, all things are become new.
During your struggles and darkest moments Jesus wil be there. He is that friend that
sticks closer than a brother. He understands hard times and wants you to know you
have full access to him at all times.
For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our
infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and
find grace to help in time off need.
24 But this man, because he continued ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him,
seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
26 For such a high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from
sinners, and made higher than the heavens.
27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own
sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
I just encourage you if you have left Jesus or grown cold that you would call upon him today
repent and follow him with all your heart soul mind and strength, The Bible tells us to examine
ourselves weather we are in the faith.