2 Thess. 1:11 Getting help fulfilling your desires...

In view of this, we always pray for you that our God will make you worthy of his calling, and by his power fulfill your every desire to do good and your work produced by faith, ()

When Paul says that God fulfills our good resolves by his power through faith (he calls our acts “works of faith”),

he means that we defeat sin and we do righteousness by faith, that is,

by being satisfied with

all that God promises to be for us in Christ

in the next five minutes, five months, five decades, and into eternity.

Here are three examples of how this might look in your life:

If you set your heart to give sacrificially and generously, the power of God to fulfill this resolve will come to you as you trust his future grace in the promise,

“And my God will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” (). And the promise,

“The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly” (). And the promise,

“And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work.” ().

2. If you set your heart to renounce pornography,

the power of God to fulfill this resolve

will come to you as you trust his future grace in the promise,

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” ().

“For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. ” ().

Much better. Wonderfully better. All-satisfyingly better.

3. And if you set your heart to speak out for Christ

when the opportunity comes,

the power of God to fulfill this resolve will come to you as you trust His future grace in the promise,

“But when they hand you over, don’t worry about how or what you are to speak. For you will be given what to say at that hour” ().

May God increase our daily faith in the precious promises of God — promises of his

inexhaustible,

blood-bought,

Christ-exalting future grace.