God's View:
Lu. 9:62
-Not looking back to your own needs but commit self
to fulfill God's purposes, break free from looking back. Can't
serve God and mammon, has to be one over the other, no compromise.
Hope:
Eph. 1:8-9
; Isa. 46:10-11
-World uses external force to move
me to its objective, God within operates inside of me to move
me toward God's purposes. God reveals His will in me, not 'to'
me. God does what pleases Him and as I follow Him, He leads,
guides me to please God. We do all to please God, not our needs
or pleasures enter into the equation. God saved us for His purposes
and His pleasures. God's purpose is tied to His pleasure.
Phil. 2:12-13 -God does all for His pleasure, not mine. It is His will and purpose. My job is to obey and follow thru not to reason why but to act out what God works in. I am not even saved for my benefit but for His. God works inside of me regardless of external pressures and forces. He takes me out of doubt and moves me to act out His will to please Him. My job is to cooperate with God, make myself willing to be made willing for God to work in me, not for me to do something but for God to do something and that for His pleasure.
Change:
l Thess. 2:13
; Eph. 3:20-21
-Our job is to work out what God
works in. My brain is useless to God. Purposes of God are not
for me to figure out, to add to, but only for me to understand
by revelation, to hear what God is saying. God answers not to
my mind or head, but thru me to my spirit. We are impelled within
by God's unlimited power to accomplish His purposes.
Col. 1:25-29 ; l Jn. 2:20 -I must work with Him working in me. Trying to get God to reveal Himself thru my brain power will not work. God reveals Himself to me thru and in my spirit. He does this not to fulfill my desires and needs or desires of others by manipulating God but my job is fulfill His program. Christ, the anointed One, lives within me and works in me mightily to counteract self-desires and needs.
2 Cor. 4:18 -We can live a lifetime of activity, controlled by my own needs and desires and not live according to God's purposes and designs.
Eph. 2:10
-I am God's ambassador with a purpose and God backs me
up. My job is to allow Jesus to fulfill Himself in me, to manifest
Him and His purpose, to accomplish His agenda. Endeavor no longer
to accomplish human endeavors which becomes only ashes, but to
obey from the heart that God's will only will suffice, not to
look for a good thing to do but to look for revelation from God,
not to seek my pleasures, but His pleasures. We are not here for
ourselves but for Him.