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He said He will do anything if you ask for it. It is His will, it was a blank check promise. It is repeated again when He said "if My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you"
Glad to hear brother! I felt drifting without purpose in a similar way, and stuck in sin I couldn't stop. The parable of the widow and the unrighteous judge (Luke 18) worked, I kept asking and one day God set me free from major sins in a way that's held since then.
I also kept reading the gospels and was surprised that there's a lot Jesus commands us to do which we are taught the opposite of. But Jesus' instructions made sense, and I couldn't find a legitimate reason why we're told to do the opposite. He actually had the 12 disciples plus around 70 other disciples, who all could do the miracles He gave them of healing the sick and casting out demons, etc. In the great commission in Mark, He said "go make disciples of all nations, teaching them all I taught you."
Meaning, the disciples were supposed to go make new disciples, not just preach one generation with miracles and then the disciples die out. Jesus said the miracles are signs which will follow those who believe. So, if you read through the gospels and try to obey what Jesus said to do, you will find you lose more and more of your own life, and it gets closer to looking like the life the disciples lived.
Jesus made the hard statement to count the cost before trying, because "no one can become My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions". He said if you try to preserve your life, you will lose it, but if you lose your life for His sake, you will find it.
So, the feeling of lack of purpose is a lie, because there's a lot of commands of Jesus which we are capable of obeying today, and some hard ones He said to do to be His disciple. It's given in the text, not some unknown purpose for our lives. I think we are supposed to become disciples of Jesus and go do like He taught them to do. To go without possessions or money, going to a city and staying in a house that accepts you, preaching the gospel and healing all the sick in the city, then moving on to the next place.
It is something that feels impossible but which is guaranteed to be possible if you keep asking Him for it.
