12/27/21 PLAN YOUR DESTINY

12/27/21 PLAN YOUR DESTINY

If you want a wonderful ending to 2022, then you need to mean business with God at the beginning of 2022 (which should start by the ending of 2021) NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME...
2 Corinthians 6:1-3
1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

These were the words of Paul,
Spiritual victory does not just pop up in our lives. It is the outcome of a life spent in submission and faith in Jesus Christ. Maturity, purity, and security are all dependent on a faith relationship between an obedient believer and God. God does do the unexpected for us and to us and through us, but God does not violate His own standards of justice, grace, mercy, wisdom and truth.

We do not initiate God's grace, love, mercy, kindness, patience, reconciliation, intervention or intercession. However, we do determine whether we will cooperate or resist God's overtures of salvation. Since salvation includes more than just the initial steps of God, then our faith is what opens the door to God and faith is what keeps the door of our of our heart and life open to God's continued presence, purity, power and purpose.

God does not choose for some people to be saved and other people to be lost. God does not choose for some Christians to be victorious and other Christians to fail. GOD IS NOT A RESPECTER OF PERSONS. God mercifully offers His blessings to all men and then He justly blesses those who submit to Him in faith.

Continued faith brings continued understanding, strength, faith, leading, empowering, wisdom and victory. We determine whether we will receive (take) the salvation from sin that God offers us.

No matter how hard it may be, you can submit to God. No matter what the personal cost is to you, it is worth the cost to trust and obey God. Jesus did not unilaterally pick and choose who would be saved from eternal torment and who would suffer eternal torment. That would make Him a respecter of men. God chose to make salvation available to all men, on the same basis; faith in Jesus Christ. God chose to make spiritual victory available to all Christians, on the same basis; faith in Jesus.

Our failure is OUR FAILURE. God cannot be blamed. Neither can He be blamed for doing what He said He would do, concerning the unbelieving, the rebellious. He decided that anyone who believes can be saved. He decided that we would have the choice. This is the act of justice and mercy. For God to choose some for salvation and deliberately, unilaterally abandon others to hell, without a choice would be the act of unilateral condemnation of people based on the wicked deeds of another person. We have all sinned, but we all sinned willfully, deliberately. We all chose to live outside of the grace of God at some point. However, God in His mercy, grace, kindness seeks the unsaved, offers the unsaved salvation and saves those who choose to accept His offer.

Romans 5:18-21
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.