How are we supposed to live? Encompassed in the definition of will is what God wishes us to do. Read Ecclesiastes and Ecclesiastes What do these verses say about what we are supposed to be doing? Read Micah What is required of us? Matthew What important commandments did Jesus instruct us to obey? If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. Love God.
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Sign Up. Our mission is to make the life-changing wisdom of the Bible understandable and accessible to all. Help Contact Us Volunteer. We use cookies to offer you a better browsing experience, by continuing to use this site you agree to this. The Holy Spirit has closed the door. He is forbidden to go there. So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas. I believe it is our responsibility to lay before the Lord a willingness that says … I will not give you my agenda.
I will not expect you to fulfill my options. I am available to you. I can tell you that every place I have ministered to, I was surprised to be led to.
I did not seek one of them. I threw the book away. God is in the details. He is in ALL of the details. He is the reason a fern unfurls at a perfect ratio. The reason the earth orbits at the perfect distance from the sun. The reason a 3 billion letter code exists in the human cell.
God laid the foundations of the earth and sustains them. Job I think the confusion comes when we need to make decisions. How will I know which way he wants me to go? Several years ago I faced a dilemma, and as I prayed to God I felt him speak to my spirit. You see, I was praying about a minor choice, fearful of being suddenly out of the will of God. Of course not. Or if I eat a sandwich instead of soup for lunch?
He says if we seek him we will find him. So while he has written the script and we are to listen and obey, he has also given us a free will. We have free will to ignore him, push him away, disobey, yes.
But this free will was meant for something more beautiful — a free will to love him, to create, to imagine, to dream. And these are things we can do within his will. Sometimes when there is a choice to make there is no right or wrong answer.
It can simply be a matter of preference. Sometimes there are choices that right and wrong. Now I told you that I heard God speak to my spirit.
How do I know it was God? First and foremost I have to line it up with the Word. There will never be a discrepancy between God and his Word. So God will not tell you have an affair, take money that is not yours or lie, etc.
The answers to most everything are there! He will most likely answer you through scripture. Take time making decisions. Learn to develop your skills, desire and ability to join others on their spiritual journeys and take them closer to Jesus. Because ethnicity is part of the good of creation, we seek to honor and celebrate the ethnic identity of those with whom we serve as well as those we seek to reach. Should you take that job offer in a different city?
Which college should you attend? Should you adopt a child? At some point in your life, you have probably faced a major decision and wondered how to know which option to choose. If you have a relationship with God, you also probably hoped you were doing what God wanted you to do.
Instructions are clear about giving thanks 1 Thessalonians , avoiding sexual immorality 1 Thessalonians and doing good 1 Peter for example.
But other things, like knowing the right time to buy a house or whether you should go back to school, are not covered in the Bible. But He rarely chooses to make His will for your life that obvious.
Instead, He wants you to be persistent in seeking His guidance. God knows that the process of seeking Him is as important as the answer He might give to any question. As you take steps of faith and learn to recognize His leading, you grow spiritually and strengthen your relationship with Him. Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit.
Use the links below to go straight to any of the following topics you can explore on this page:. When God states that something will happen, it does. No person could have stopped Jesus from dying on the cross for the sins of the world. This is often referred to as His prescriptive will. God has given many commands to His people, but He also allows people a choice: whether or not to obey His commands.
God is not just guiding you from outside of you. If you have entrusted your life to Jesus, His Holy Spirit lives within you.
After Jesus was raised from the dead, He appeared to His closest followers. They were afraid of what lay ahead of them, and Jesus knew that He was about to return to His Father in heaven. But rather than leave them with detailed instructions about everything they needed to do from then on, He gave them the ultimate gift and source of guidance.
He promised that His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, would come and guide them. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. As the Father has sent Me, I am sending you. Jesus has given this same gift, His Holy Spirit, to all who have believed in Him since. This is the foundation upon which the principles we are about to explore makes sense. The Holy Spirit tells you what He hears from God and makes it known to you. It will take time to learn how to listen to the Holy Spirit, and the following principles will help you grow in doing that.
But without understanding this first, you will be trying to do everything in your own strength rather than using the greatest resource God can give you: Himself. The best thing to do is to use more than one method and look for agreement among them. As you spend time working through your options, consider the whole picture. It can be dangerous to make a decision based on one principle you feel strongly about while ignoring the other five.
If you have actually already decided what to do and are only coming to God so He can approve your decision, you are not really seeking His will. You may have something in mind that you think is best or that you want to happen. Think through why you feel more drawn to one particular option. To really understand what God is saying to you, be open to God guiding you in any direction.
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