Seeking God’s Plan for Your Decisions
Would you like to know God’s will for your life? How do you discern God’s will for very important decisions of our life, such as marriage and career? Here are some of the simple bible based steps to find God’s will and purpose for your life. It provides practical guidelines in discovering God’s will for your life.
We must make Jesus our Lord and be genuinely willing to seek him. (Romans 12:1-2, Mat 6:33) This is the first step. There is no other alternative! We should be willing to respond as God would in any given situation. (Psalm 25:10) We should be humble and willing to learn. (Psalm 25:9) We must spend time in his words daily. This is the most simple and powerful, yet most forgotten fact. Study the bible, not just read it. We should listen to God in prayer (Prov 8:34), not just giving a list of things, we need. So often, we are so much focused on what we need, that we miss what God wants from us!
We should completely rely on God and his plans for our life. (Prov 3:5-6) Someone has said, “How can you make God laugh?”, “Tell him your plans!” It is not to say, that you should not make any plans at all, but to seek his ways first. We should have clean and pure heart. (Psalm 66:18, 1 John 1:9) We should be expectant. God wants to speak to us, so Pay attention!We should fear the Lord, this means hating evil and living God’s way. (Prov 8:13, Prov 9:10), it is harder to do what we hate. Fasting can also immensely help. It helps us to focus our mindon God. (Mat 6: 16-18)
These are the basic principles for preparing yourself to see his will for your life. But how about a specific decisions, like career, marriage, finances etc? There are three steps in finding God’s will for a specific decisions.
1) Word of God
2) Circumstances
3) Peace of Mind
You can verify your decision with confirmation of word of God, the circumstances and the inner peace that you may get. Now, I am not saying that God is going to show you, the name of the person you are going to marry, or the name of the company you are going to work with. But, if you sincerely seek his will, he will surely give you assurance about your decisions.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009 under Others.
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