God’s overarching will for your life is not about geography. Or where you should work. Or even who you should marry. God’s will for your life is that you be rescued from eternal damnation (saved from sin), restored to fellowship with Him, and conformed to the image of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Jesus lived to bring praise, honor, and glory to the Father. What does that look like in our everyday, walking-around life? It means believing, repenting, and surrendering your life to God through His plan of salvation in Christ. And It means making God the most important thing in your life, loving Him with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Such a life is lived out by the renewing of your mind through His Word, through an intimate fellowship with Him in prayer and worship, and through a life devoted to discipleship and evangelism. Through knowing Him and making Him known.

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God’s overarching will for your life is not about geography. Or where you should work. Or even who you should marry. God’s will for your life is that you be rescued from eternal damnation (saved from sin) (Note 1), restored to fellowship with Him (Note 2), and conformed to the image of His Son, Jesus Christ (Note 3, 4).

Jesus lived to bring praise, honor, and glory to the Father (Note 5). What does that look like in everyday, walking-around life? It means believing, repenting, and surrendering your life to God through His plan of salvation in Christ. And It means making God the most important thing in your life, loving Him with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength (Note 6). Such a life is lived out by the renewing of your mind through His Word (Note 7, through an intimate fellowship with Him in prayer and worship, and through a life devoted to discipleship and evangelism (Note 8, 9. Through knowing Him and making Him known.

1. The Lord is …….. not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 NASB
2. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their wrongdoings against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 NASB
3. For God knew His people in advance, and He chose them to become like His Son, so that His Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. Romans 8:29 NLT
4. Taken together, this is sanctification. To be sanctified is to be made holy. He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy.‘(1 Peter 1:15-16). Sanctification has three phases: i) to be set free from sin by the blood of Christ (positionally holy); ii) growing to spiritual maturity through obedience to the Word of God in our life (experiential sanctification); and iii) at some point after we come into the presence of Jesus, whether after our death or the Rapture, we become fully and ultimately separated from sin (1 John 3:2). These three phases of sanctification separate us from the penalty of sin (justification), the power of sin (maturity), and the presence of sin (glorification).
5. I have brought You glory on earth by finishing the work You gave Me to do. John 17:4 NIV
6. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. Mark 12:30 NASB
7. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:2 NASB
8. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to follow all that I commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age. Matthew 28:19-20
9. We are dispatched into the world each day to be a witness and a voice, where being a witness is the example of a life lived identified with Christ, and being a voice is sharing the Good News at the slightest prompting of the Holy Spirit.