{"id":6973,"date":"2012-06-06T05:56:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T13:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=6973"},"modified":"2012-06-06T06:37:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T14:37:39","slug":"work-out%e2%80%9d-what-god-%e2%80%9cworks-in%e2%80%9d-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=6973","title":{"rendered":"Work Out\u201d What God \u201cWorks in\u201d You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. .<strong> . work out your own salvation . . . for it is God who works in you . . . \u2014Philippians 2:12-13<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N3Q5CxQ24bA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nYour will agrees with God, but in your flesh there is a nature that renders you powerless to do what you know you ought to do. When the Lord initially comes in contact with our conscience, the first thing our conscience does is awaken our will, and our will always agrees with God. Yet you say, \u201cBut I don\u2019t know if my will is in agreement with God.\u201d Look to Jesus and you will find that your will and your conscience are in agreement with Him every time. What causes you to say \u201cI will not obey\u201d is something less deep and penetrating than your will. It is perversity or stubbornness, and they are never in agreement with God. The most profound thing in a person is his will, not sin.<\/p>\n<p>The will is the essential element in God\u2019s creation of human beings\u2014 sin is a perverse nature which entered into people. In someone who has been born again, the source of the will is Almighty God. \u201c. . . for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.\u201d With focused attention and great care, you have to \u201cwork out\u201d what God \u201cworks in\u201d you\u2014 not work to accomplish or earn \u201cyour own salvation,\u201d but work it out so you will exhibit the evidence of a life based with determined, unshakable faith on the complete and perfect redemption of the Lord. As you do this, you do not bring an opposing will up against God\u2019s will\u2014 God\u2019s will is your will. Your natural choices will be in accordance with God\u2019s will, and living this life will be as natural as breathing. Stubbornness is an unintelligent barrier, refusing enlightenment and blocking its flow. The only thing to do with this barrier of stubbornness is to blow it up with \u201cdynamite,\u201d and the \u201cdynamite\u201d is obedience to the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Do I believe that Almighty God is the Source of my will? God not only expects me to do His will, but He is in me to do it.<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>June 6, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Lord, this lesson reminds me that on this earth as a believer, I will always be in conflict with my own nature, even when I surrender my will to You. I thought this was a \u201cone-time\u201d thing; that once I gave my heart and life to You that I could and would easily live in your will. But that has not been the case. Even when I purposefully and completely surrender my will to Yours, I find that I must be diligent and focused on Jesus as I can quickly and easily revert to fear, uncertainty and selfishness. I can quickly revert to the \u201cold man\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>And God says\u2026\u201dIt is a daily, minute by minute activity, to take up your cross and follow Me. While you are on this earth, you will need to work out your salvation, by staying in connection with Jesus. You cannot work harder or become more disciplined because you choose; you become more focused and more disciplined, when you are close to Jesus. Surrender early and often every day and realize that \u201cworking out your salvation\u201d simply means to learn how to let Jesus live through you. Jesus lives through you when you surrender to Him. He provides all the focus and discipline\u00a0you will ever need.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Romans 7: 14-25<\/strong><br \/>\n(MSG) I can anticipate the response that is coming: &#8220;I know that all God&#8217;s\u00a0commands are spiritual, but I&#8217;m not. Isn&#8217;t this also your experience?&#8221;\u00a0 Yes. I&#8217;m full of myself\u2014after all, I&#8217;ve spent a long time in sin&#8217;s prison. What\u00a0 I don&#8217;t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act\u00a0 another, doing things I absolutely despise. So if I can&#8217;t be trusted to figure\u00a0 out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God&#8217;s\u00a0 command is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can&#8217;t keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! I realize that I don&#8217;t have what it takes. I can will it, but I can&#8217;t do it. I decide to do good, but I don&#8217;t really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. My decisions, such as they are, don&#8217;t result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time.<\/p>\n<p>It happens so regularly that it&#8217;s predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up. I truly delight in God&#8217;s commands, but it&#8217;s pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge. I&#8217;ve tried everything and nothing helps. I&#8217;m at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn&#8217;t that the real<br \/>\nquestion?<\/p>\n<p>The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . work out your own salvation . . . for it is God who works in you . . . \u2014Philippians 2:12-13 Your will agrees with God, but in your flesh there is a nature that renders you powerless to do what you know you ought to do. 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