Are you willing to accept FATHER’S full and complete will for your life?
When I was young, I was afraid that FATHER would assign me to be a missionary in Africa and I didn’t have a heart for such an assignment. Little did I realize that HIS Divine Intent for me was established before I was formed in the womb. My responsibility was to ask, seek, knock, and find what my calling was.
Jesus spoke in Luke chapter 11:
9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
11 If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?
12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will Your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
Step one to finding out the details of FATHER’S Will for your life is to submit to draw of The Holy Spirit to FATHER. As you read and hear The Word resulting in the acceptance of Jesus Christ as your one and only Savior, you will come to realize that HE sent The Holy Spirit for our benefit so that we can successfully walk in FATHER’S Divine Intent for our lives.
As you receive the Baptism of The Holy Spirit, you effective have a Holy GPS inside you to direct your path. The key is to respond in a positive manner. Otherwise, you will be given the opportunity to correct your path. Sometimes, the correction can seem severe but necessary. As you trust in FATHER’S plan, fear will depart, and you will begin to see the blessings of fully submitting to HIS Will for your life. Consider Paul’s life before his encounter with Jesus Christ.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st Timothy chapter 1:
12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, Who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into service,
13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;
14 and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and Love which are found in Christ Jesus.
15 It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all.
16 Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for Eternal life.
17 Now to the King Eternal, Immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
What is a blasphemer? This word mean: to slander or accuse; to speak derogatory words for the purpose of injuring or harming one’s reputation: signifies profane, foul, unclean language: any derogatory speech intended to defame, injure, or harm another’s reputation; any type of debasing, derogatory, nasty, shameful, or ugly speech or behavior intended to humiliate someone. It is a mean-spirited person!
Further, the meaning of a persecutor is: to hunt, chase, or pursue; to persecute; denoted the actions of a hunter who followed after an animal in order to apprehend, capture, and kill it.
That’s not all. A violent aggressor is one who in pride and insolence deliberately mistreats, wrongs, and hurts another; treatment calculated to public insult and openly humiliate the person who suffers it; one who derives pleasure from inflicting pain on someone else.
Who would have thought that Saul could change? Jesus did. He knew FATHER’S plan for Paul, and it required an encounter with Jesus Himself.
Now let’s look at Paul’s conversion.
Luke recorded by The Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 9:
1 Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
3 As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a Light shone around him from Heaven.
4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”
5 And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.”
6 So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
7 And the men who journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice but seeing no one.
8 Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.
9 And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.
No matter how messed up a person is, FATHER can change him or her. We can’t force a person to change, only FATHER can. It requires a change of heart. It requires a personal encounter with Jesus Christ Who will then give that person The Holy Spirit to guide such a person who has become a new creation, old things passed away. However, it takes full acceptance and saying, “Lord, what do You want me to do?”