John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
In John 6:39-40 (Amplified), Jesus said, "And this is the will of Him Who sent Me, that I should not lose any of all that He has given Me, but that I should give new Life and raise them all up at the last day For this is My Father's will and His purpose, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in and cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Him should have eternal Life, and I will raise him up from the dead at the last days."
When you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you've entered into the will and purpose of God. You've come to a place, where you're in what Paul calls, "The Good will of God," in Romans 12:2. We find the Good will of God, in James 1:17-18 (Amplified) which says, "Every Good Gift and every Perfect, free, large, full Gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of all that gives Light in the shining of Whom there can be no variation, rising or setting or shadow cast by His turning, as in an eclipse. And it was out of His Own free will that He gave us birth as sons by His Word of Truth, so that we should be a kind of first fruits of His creatures, as sample of what He created to be consecrated to Himself."
When we enter into Jesus, we enter into God's Good will and His purpose. The word "good," from the original Greek, according to The Strong's Concordance #18 means, "Benefit, good, goods, good thing, well." By faith in Jesus, you've entered into the Good will of God, as His child. You are a good thing, beneficial and well with the Father. When you first are saved, you're a baby Christian and don't know the Father, His purpose and will for you is, until you grow into the knowledge of Him.
Then we enter into what Paul calls "the acceptable will of God," in Romans 12:2 (Amplified). Paul writes about increasing the knowledge and purpose of God's will in our lives, saying it's "good and acceptable." The Strong's Concordance #2101 says this means, "Acceptable, fully agreeable, well pleasing, accepted." This is a place of growth and maturing in wisdom and understanding, as a new creation child of God.
Paul also writes about the "perfect will of God," in the above scripture. The word "perfect," according to The Strong's Concordance # 5046 means, "Complete, completeness, of full age, man, labor, growth, mental and moral character, and mature." These things are God's will and come from renewing our minds by the Word and the Holy Spirit. When we renew our minds by the Word and the Holy Spirit, then we can prove what's is God's will for ourselves and to work through us. We must choose whether or not we will mature and progress from being a child to an adult. The choice is ours to make.
The Lord has instructed me to write about these things, so our eyes might be opened to His True will, for our lives. We've been so divided and confused about whether certain things "are God's will." Paul says that if we allow the Holy Spirit and God's Word to renew our minds, then we can prove for ourselves, what God's will is.
As you grow up into adulthood in your faith, you can know how to grow from the good will of God, to the acceptable will of God. You can grown into the perfect or mature child of God and prove for yourself or you can remain a baby in Christ, according to 1Peter 2:2,5 (Amplified) which says, "Like newborn babies you should crave, thirst for, earnestly desire, the pure, unadulterated Spiritual milk (the Word) that by it you may be nurtured and grow into completed salvation."
Peter continues about learning and growing in the will and knowledge of the Lord in Verse 5, saying, "Come, and like living stones, be yourselves built into a Spiritual house, for a holy, dedicated, consecrated, priesthood, to offer up those spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable and pleasing to God through Jesus Christ."
We can remain in God's will without growth in our Christianity, but we might not be in a place to do His purpose. All baby Christians are in God's will, but baby Christians have much growing to do, before fulfilling His purpose. Ephesians 4:11-15 tells us that "Jesus placed the five-fold ministry for the perfecting and equipping of the saints to do the work of ministering toward building up the Church."
Not everyone in the Church, is of the same age (if you will). Some were just born-again this very day, while some were born-again years ago. Every child of God, is in the will of God, by being born-again. But, they're not yet able to perform the purpose of God in and to the world, because they haven't been taught and renewed their minds by His Word yet.
Jesus has placed people in the Body of Christ, to bring these children into the perfect will of God. This is a place where we are complete, of full age, adulthood, grown into a new mental and moral character and mature. This is when we have grown into a place of knowing and walking in God's perfect will and purpose for our lives. Paul says, we can prove for ourselves, what is this "perfect" will of God.
Some churches and fellowships are made up of babes in Christ, than other churches. This doesn't mean that some aren't getting people saved, but they haven't grown up enough to received the meat, instead of the milk. Most first graders aren't able to attend college courses, because they're not ready to receive it yet. This is true in the Church too. There's a process of growth, where we grow from babes in Christs to being mature Christians. Our Heavenly Father allows us to choose. We can still be in His will, but not so much in His purpose. Only yielding to His call in wisdom and understanding, can promote us into a vessel to be used of the Master.
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