God’s Will for Your Life

Romans 12:1-2 (NIV)

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

Romans 12:1-2 (NIV)

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

God’s Will• How do we know God’s will?• How specific is the will of God?• What does it mean to act on it?

Hyper-Calvinism

God’s Permissive Will

Journal

Your Story

God’s Prescriptive Will

Colossians 1:9-10 (KNT)

For this reason, from the day we heard it, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We’re asking God to fill you with the knowledge of what he wants (his will) in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

Colossians 1:9-10 (KNT)

This will mean that you will be able to conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Lord, and so give him real delight, as you bear fruit in every good work and grow up in the knowledge of God.

Discerning God’s will• Scripture• Conscience• Heaviness

• Promptings of Holy Spirit

• Counsel of friends• Gathering with

Church

Matthew 6:33 (NIV)

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Micah 6:8 (NKJV)

He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?

God’s Will for Your Life