The Source of Everything You Do (And How to Impact It!) Part 2





"Submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you."  James 4:7

How do you know what to always choose and what to always refuse?

ALWAYS UNCONDITIONALLY CHOOSE GOD'S WILL.

ALWAYS UNCONDITIONALLY REFUSE SATAN'S WILL.

The wills of people are in the middle:

• If a person's will agrees with God's will AND YOURS, accept their will.
• If a person's will disagrees with God's will, reject their will.

It is written, "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
It is written again, "The fruit of the Spirit is self-control."

So in guarding your heart above all else, you can know that God will never take from you the liberty of free will.  Now you will experience the consequences of every choice you make, but these consequences actually honor your will! 

• God's will inspires liberty. 
• Satan's will inspires slavery. 

People may be with God or Satan: 

• If they inspire liberty, they agree with God.
• If the inspire slavery, they agree with Satan.

Say someone calls you right when you and your family are sitting down at dinner.  If this person gives no concern about what you were doing before he called, or if she ignores you when you tell her you just sat down to eat, this is where you guard your heart, or your will.  You tell him that you can call him back at whatever time works for you.  You tell her she can call you back at a specific time on that night or the next day.

I once sat at a teacher's house when a student came over uninvited.  The teacher was watching a documentary, and told the student that he would talk with her after he finished the documentary, but not before!  So she sat and waited.  What my teacher did impresses me to this day!
(Read Part 3.  Click HERE.)