There are six things that God wants from you: Decisiveness, Diligence, Determination, Dedication, Discipline and Dependence.

Decisiveness

God- doesn’t just want you to wonder about Him. He wants you to know and understand Him. When you genuinely make a decision to follow God, He will truly be on your side to help you in time of need. Hebrews 6:14 says “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” Decisiveness is defined as the ability to make right decisions quickly and confidently.  Decisiveness is choosing to do what is right based on accurate truth, wise counsel, and clearly defined goals. Our greatest decision in life is to know God and become godly, the infallible standard of good character. Bible says “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.” (John 1:12) Decisiveness is focusing on our destination, rather than focusing on distractions.  Consider how people in the Bible manifested the quality of decisiveness and called on others to decide.  At the end of Moses’ life, he challenged Israel: “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse.  So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants” (Deuteronomy 30:19).  They needed to choose, they needed to decide on these life matters.  We also see that toward the end of Joshua’s life, he said to Israel, “Choose for yourselves today whom you will serve . . . but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD” (Joshua 24:15).  Joshua didn’t hesitate to state firmly his resolve to serve the Lord God of Israel and he called on them to do the same. When Daniel was carried to Babylon as a slave, he was faced with a choice of whether to fit in to the King’s requirements or whether to choose God’s righteous standard.  The record says that “Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or with the wine which he drank” He predetermined that he would obey God, whatever the cost. Make right decision and do right because it is the right thing to do.

Diligence:

According to the Dictionary, diligence is “careful attention, unremitting application, and persistent endeavor.” A diligent person is described as “assiduous, industrious, conscientious, thorough; not idle, not negligent, not lazy.” Why Does God Prize It? God values diligence in His people, as evidenced by the numerous references to diligence in the book of Proverbs. Here are a few examples: “Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.” (12:24) “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty”. (14:2) “The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.” (13:4) see also Proverbs 31 -- Colossians 4:12-13. Solomon says in Ecclesiastes 9:10, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might” (that is, whatever you do, do it to the best of your ability).

God prizes diligence highly. Proverbs 12:27: “Diligence is man’s precious possession.” Proverbs 21:5 amplifies: “The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty.”In fact, God demands diligence! “You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God” (Deuteronomy 6:17). In Deuteronomy 28:1 we read, “If you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.” Christ, an example. Mark 1:35 “And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.” Hebrews 11:6 shows God takes diligence seriously “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” prizing these things above all else.

Determination

Apostle Paul said “For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2:2)  Determination is the ability to make difficult decisions and accomplish goals based on the truths of God's Word, regardless of the resistance that may be encountered. It is the ability to set ourselves toward Godly pursuits, and not allow ourselves to be distracted or discouraged (Psalms 33:15; 119:29-30; Galatians 5:19-21; 2 Timothy 4:7, 8; Hebrews 12:12-13). Jesus tells us, “Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing”—and not caught in idleness (Matthew 24:46). So Jesus expects responsibility and conscientiousness from us. He emphasizes this in Luke 16:12: “And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own?” And, says Jesus, “He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much” (Luke 16:10).How do we exhibit Determination in daily life? Here are positive examples from Scripture (Book of Nehemiah; Daniel 1:8-16; Luke 15:4; Acts 20:16; 11:29; 15:2) 1 Corinthians 9:24-25 says  "Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown"

Dedication

Jesus said “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name's sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.( Matthew 19:29) Bible describes that God is consistent in His attributes, in His values, in His character, in His Nature and in His word: "...I am the Lord: I change not" (Malachi 3:6). What God wants from us has not changed from the beginning. An Old Testament verse, Micah 6:8, summarizes what God wants:  “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8, ESV). "To do justly" and "to love mercy"... these are instructions on how to relate to God and one another. Jesus gave us more information about this in Matthew 22:37-39: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself”. There is no commandment greater than these” (Mark 12:30–32; cf). What God wants is really quite simple: He wants us. All our service for God must flow from those two commands. We simply cannot love God deeply without seeking and knowing Him decisively and believing Him diligently, obeying and trusting Him with determination and loving and serving Him with dedication. To love and "walk humbly" with God is to believe God, to know God, and to do the will of God with a absolute commitment. It means living as if you are in the presence of God, because you understand that you are in the presence of God. It means living the way God would have you live. (Romans 12:1-3)

 Disciplined

God has given us a spirit of discipline" (2 Tim.1:7)”The fruit of the Spirit is self-control" (Gal.5:22, 23).. No-one can become genuinely holy, whatever experience he may have had, unless he is disciplined in all areas of daily living. Much of the restlessness and the instability in the lives of many can be traced to the basic fault of an indiscipline way of life.  In 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, discipline and self-control are very closely related. It is to subordinate our fleshly desires to the will of God. It is to control your body, so that you make it do what it ought to do, rather than what it wants to do. So, to sum up, discipline is training yourself to do the right thing when you don’t feel like it. The first reason cultivating self-discipline is important is because God commands it. 1 Timothy 4:7 says “discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness.” In the Greek, this is an imperative. God doesn’t give us options – the sovereign of all creation has given His children a command – discipline yourself. The second reason is given to us right in the text, “discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness.” Godliness is another word for “holiness” or “Christ likeness.” This text is teaching us that discipline is the path to holiness. No man can sanctify Himself apart from the working of God, but God will not sanctify anyone without their active cooperation. Godly character is not the result of good intentions, wishful thinking, some mystical “mantra” or even sheer head knowledge. It’s developed through the self-disciplined application of God’s Word at a very basic level, enabled and empowered by God’s Spirit.” Godly people are disciplined people. Read the biographies of giants of church history like Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Bunyan, Owen, Whitefield, Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, Spurgeon, George Muller. In every case, you will find that these were disciplined men. They never could have accomplished all that they did without being disciplined.

Dependence

Dependency upon God is fundamental to the spiritual life. In reality, dependency upon God is the only possible outcome of becoming one with Christ, and of going on with God into spiritual maturity. It is God’s will for us to be dependent, and for Him to supply our need. This is the true relationship. But in order for it to happen, we have to realize our need. Jesus said “Apart from Me you can do nothing." (John 15:5) Here's how dependent Jesus was on God: "The Son can do nothing by Himself: He can only do what He sees His father doing." (John 5:19) Jesus came not only to die for our sins but also to show the world what God is really like in person. One of the things He told people in this context, as an example of living as a man before God, was that He never did, and never could do, anything from His own initiative. In other words He followed the Father in doing what He wanted Him to do, even when it came to finally dying on the cross. He lived a life that was entirely dependent on the Father, in terms of direction and strength. Is it not this way that He wants us also to live, in a moment by moment dependence on God?

DEPENDENCE ON GOD starts with self surrender. Self Surrender is the act of giving up or yielding oneself or the possession of something to the power of another.

A life of dependence is close to God. Jer.30:21 – “…Who is he who will devote himself to be close to me?”

A life of dependence is obedient to God. John 14:15 – “If you love me you will obey what I command.” 1 Jn.3:18 – “…Let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.”

 A life of dependence is a life of meaning and impact. John 15:4-5 – “Remain in me and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”“It is easy to think that we humble ourselves before God, but our humility toward others is the only sufficient proof that our humility before God is real.”  God's grace is sufficient for anything we will ever need. If we want to see God's grace in our lives, we have to learn to rely on Him in our areas of weakness. That's what He wants. The more weaknesses God gives us, the more He wants us to depend on Him. The more we depend on Him, the more we will see His grace in our lives and know Him as our truest and best friend. To live this way in these times is no accident: it is something that must be chosen with a child like dependability.