- The Paradox of History
- The Essence of God
- Raw Material
- Available People
- Humility
- Spiritual Gifts
- Meekness
- Baptisms
- Three Functions of the Believer
- Ambassadorship
- Seven Figures of Christ and the Church
- The Mature Believer and Personal Accountability
- Tongues as a Spiritual Gift
- Prophecies of Jesus Christ in the Psalms
- The Perspective of Grace
- Discipleship
- Blessing and Reward
- How to Redeem Time
- Dispensations Timeline
- The Rapture
- The Day of the Lord and The Day of Christ
- The Good Fight of Faith
- Suffering
- Decisions
- No Truce
- Peace
- 10 Principles of Warfare
- God is Able, God Is Faithful
- Present Session of Christ
- Religion: The Enemy’s Ace
- Power In Us
- Faith
- Small Things
- Five Techniques (to spirituality)
- Eight Sabbaths
- Faith-rest
- Strange Tests
- Daily Disciplines
- The Faith-rest Technique
- Three Sources of Temptation
- Divine Wisdom
- The Value of Wisdom
- Evil
- The Royal Code
- The Character of Grace
- The Cross to the Crown
- Water and the Spirit
- Spirituality
- Synonomous Terms
- Reversionism and Recovery
- Soul Strengths and Soul Kinks
- Discipline
- Seven Steps of Spiritual Advance
- The Race of Life
- The Will of God
- The Old Sin Nature
- Energized Prayer
- Abiding: Absolute Thinking
- God’s Faithfulness
- Salvation in The Book of James
- “All things work together …”
- Biblical Spirituality
- Dispensations
- Death
- Endurance
- Essence of God Acronym
- Eternal Security
- Fellowship with God
- Five Commands for Christian Soldiers
- Five Factors of Effective Faith
- Five Techniques of the Christian Way of Life
- Five works of the Holy Spirit
- Five Works of the Spirit in Regard to the Word
- Free Will
- Freedom
- God is Able
- God Revealed
- Greek
- Hebrew Words for Faith
- Hermeneutics
- Imitation of Christ
- Man’s Barrier with God
- Parakaleo
- Seven Steps of Spiritual Recovery
- Seven Steps of Spiritual Retreat
- Spiritual Flexibility
- Spiritual Rest
- Stages of Spiritual Growth
- Take up Your Cross and Follow Him
- The Blood of Christ
- The Call of God
- The Daily Care of the Soul
- The Doctrine of Sin
- The Good Soldier of Jesus Christ
- Christ’s Work on the Cross
- The Church
- The Holy Spirit and Christ
- The I AM Sayings of Christ
- The Importance of the Word of God
- The Overcomer
- The Plan of God
- The Spirit in the Old Testament
- The Way of Salvation
- The Way to be Salt and Light
- The Words of Jesus
- The Work of Christ on the Cross
- Using the Physical to Learn the Spiritual
- Ways of Learning
- The Christian Way of Life
- The Christian Walk
- Scriptural Proof of the Pre-tribulation Rapture
- The Five Crowns
- Jesus Christ in the Tabernacle
- 5 Circles of Faith around Jesus
- The 4 Points of the Cross
- Should I Confess My Sins?
The Will of God
How can we know the will of God for our lives? First we have to understand what that will includes. God’s will for the life of every believer has three dimensions: the what, the where, and the why.
The operational will of God is the “what.” God has something He wants us to do with our lives; He has a specific task for every believer (Mar 13:33–37), a ministry that is defined by our spiritual gift (1Co 12:4–7). One of the ways He tells us what He wants us to do with our lives is by telling us what He wants us to do with our days and hours. Mary said to the servants at the wedding in Cana, “Whatever He says to you, do it” (Joh 2:5). Had they not done exactly what He told them to do, there would have been no miracle, no divine production through them. Our job is to do what He tells us to do today.
The geographical will of God is the “where.” God has a place He wants us to be. This is the place He will supply all our needs. If we are in the wrong place, we will miss out on His provision. God told Elijah to go to the brook Cherith. “I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there” (1Ki 17:4). The ravens made their drop every morning and every evening at Cherith. If Elijah had been anywhere else, he would not have seen God’s provision.
The motivational will of God is the “why.” God is not just concerned with what we do and where we do it, but with why and in whose power. In Matthew 6, the Lord had some harsh words for men who pray, who fast, and who give alms. He had nothing against their actions, but He had everything against their motives. In Heb 11:6 we are told that without faith it is impossible to please God. Nothing we do—even God’s will—apart from faith in Him is acceptable to Him.
To be “in God’s will” we have to be doing the right thing in the right place for the right reason. To discover the will of God for our lives as individuals—the undeclared or unwritten will of God—we have to accept the declared and written will of God. We will never find the undeclared will of God until we begin to obey the declared will. And what is His declared will? Seven things we know for sure that God wants us to do:
Be saved (2Pe 3:9)
Be sanctified (1Th 4:3)
Be filled with the Spirit (Eph 5:18)
Be thankful (1Th 5:18)
Be content (Phi 4:11–13)
Suffer (1Pe 3:17)
Serve (Rom 12:1–2; 2Co 5:15).