Ephesians 5: 15 -17

Three things God gives us for our journey:

a. _________________
b. _________________
c. _________________

God’s Will is Not…

  1. a  __________________
  2. a  __________________
  3. a  __________________

 

What is God’s Will?

2 Peter 3:9; John 17:19.

 

How to know God’s will:  If I want to know God’s will I …

___________   that I need guidance.

  1. Psalm 25:9

 

  1. ___________  in faith for directions.

James 1:5-6

  1. ____________  for God’s response.

Job 33:14

Three Channels that God Uses:

  1. ______________________

Psalm 119:11

  1. _______________________

1 Corinthians 12:28

  1. ________________________

Proverbs 16:9

  1. ___________   God when I don’t understand.

Proverbs 3:5-6

Three Errors to Avoid:

    1. Don’t be ___________
    2. Don’t be ___________
    3. Don’t be ___________

Isaiah 41:10; Psalms 37:23-24

5. _________ on what I already know to do.
James 4:17;   Hebrews 3:7

 

“Wycliffe accepted the Holy Scriptures with implicit faith as the inspired revelation of God’s will, a sufficient rule of faith and practice. He had been educated to regard the Church of Rome as the divine, infallible authority, and to accept with unquestioning reverence the established teachings and customs of a thousand years; but he turned away from all these to listen to God’s holy Word. This was the authority which he urged the people to acknowledge. Instead of the church speaking through the pope, he declared the only true authority to be the voice of God speaking through his Word. And he taught not only that the Bible is a perfect revelation of God’s will, but that the Holy Spirit is its only interpreter, and that every man is, by the study of its teachings, to learn his duty for himself. Thus he turned the minds of men from the pope and the Church of Rome to the Word of God.”   The Great Controversy,   p.93.

“Paul had a terrible awakening when the light of heaven flashed upon him, and a voice said to him, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me? Paul answered, “Who art Thou, Lord?” and Christ answered, “I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest; it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.” And the Lord said, “Arise, and go to the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.” The Lord always gives the human agent his work to do. Paul was to work in compliance with the divine command. If Paul had said, “Lord, I am not in the least inclined to follow your directions in working out my salvation,” then had the Lord have showered upon him a light ten-fold as bright, it would have been useless. It is man’s part to co-operate with the divine. Here is where the conflict is to be sternest, hardest, and most fierce, in yielding the will and way to God’s will and way, relying upon the gracious influences which God has exerted upon the human soul throughout all the life. The man must do the work of inclining. “For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do.” The character of the action will testify what has been the nature of the resolve. The doing was not in accordance with feeling and natural inclination, but in harmony with the will of the Father in heaven. Follow and obey the leadings of the Holy Spirit; obey not the voice of the deceiver, which is in harmony with the unsanctified will, but obey the impulse God has given. This is what the heavenly intelligences are constantly working to have us do,–the will of the Father which is in heaven.”  Bible Echo, November 1, 1893

by Henry Dering