This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge
Do I Really Want God’s Best for Me?
Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure. James 4:3b-4
This Scripture says it all. When we pursue God to satisfy the cravings of our selfish sin nature (MEdom), we end up dissatisfied when He doesn’t come through for us. What does it mean that we ask of God with wrong motives?
- What do you believe about God, today? Think it through before you answer.
- If your life was everything God wants for you, what does it look like?
- What do you believe about God’s expectations for you?
- When you consider the statement, “Man fully alive is the glory of God” by French Bishop of Lyons, St. Irenaeus, what meaning comes to your mind?
- Jesus said, “If you abide in me and my will abides in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” (John 15:7) Did he really mean that? If so, what does that really mean for you?
- God is God and we’re not, therefore, we are an imperfect and dissatisfied people. How do your imperfections, and those of everyone around you, get in the way of what you want in life?
- What is that you want that you believe God also wants for you?
- What might you say that God wants for you that you might not want for yourself?
- What can God take hold of in your life and make it better by His standards?
- Which of those things are you willing to give to God?
- Which of those things, being honest with yourself, are you less than willing to turn over to God? What is holding you back?
- How willing and determined are you to go after God for what you want that you cannot do for yourself? Explain.
- What do you need to ask God for? List them and be specific.
- Do you believe that God can give you and do for you what you cannot do for yourself? Why or why not?
- What specifically do you believe God can do in your life?
- Perhaps more importantly, on a scale of 1-10, how confident are you that God will? Explain.
Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Ephesians 3:20
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