It has never been up to you to produce the power to accomplish all that I have desired to do through your life.
What about making choices, obedience, and the chances you miss if you are not in a 'state of readiness'? I agree we can and are allowed to rest in mercy, grace, but what about not leaving your talents unused? (this is what i personally dislike about the word, besides..I expect christians to dayly carry the cross and follow Jesus, this is to me what being a christian means, a dayly choice: all the blabla about loosing focus..perhaps for the more immature?)
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He orders circumstances sometimes so even though we have a free will, it is not involved in selecting the course of our life. For example, it was His Will for me to go through a time of unemployment so He could perform a work in my life. I got laid off. My will was not involved in that. Watchman Nee called that sort of "guidance" the Hand of God. In essence, He makes the decision for us. That is how He can say with certainty that His Will will be accomplished in certain people's lives Joseph is another example. It was the Lord's will that he be sent to Egypt - the Lord used his brothers to make the decision for him. It is more or less like walking down a hallway - there is only one way to go, all the doors are locked but one.
Another way this works is say you are believing the Lord for a job. You learn of a job that looks like the perfect job to your eyes. Everything looks like this is the perfect job from every angle. You put the care of this job in the Lord's hands. All of a sudden every door to that job is closed. You try door after door and the way to that job is blocked. It becomes clear that the Lord has closed the door to that job. Later on, you find out that there are some negative things about that job you were unaware of at the time. The Lord closed the door to that job because He is intimately familiar with that job - He knew far more about that job than your limited knowledge. He knew you would not be satisfied working there and intervened in a way that prevented you from working there. You had free will, but your free will was not involved in you not working there.
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Topic: My Plan Will Come To Pass In Your Life - Bill Hardaway
