The victory of the will

Do we find ourselves gaining no ground in our walk God? Do some days feel like we are going backwards instead of forward? We are stuck not because God has stopped speaking or because we have stopped hearing from God. We have engaged our ears and our hearts but not our wills. We have not acted on what we heard or felt. The weakest follower of Jesus finds that the moment he says, “Yes” all of the almighty power of God is available to him. The truth of God comes to us, we hear, we confess our wrongs and then we go back again. We open ourselves to the Word of God again and turn back again, until one day we find that we have no business going back. At that moment, we must move directly toward God and do our business with him. We have heard the call, “Come to me” and acted on it. Yet, the very last thing we want to do is to come. We know that the moment we give our wills to God, the supernatural power of God will be released into our lives. The dominating power of the world, the flesh and the devil is now broken; not by our act, but because our lives have been joined with God and we have connected with the power that raised Jesus from the dead. At this moment we become fully alive. – Ron Friesen