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 FINDING GOD'S WILL

The will of God for your life is not revealed because you have ticked all the boxes and earned that insight from God. Your Heavenly Father WANTS to bless you, WANTS to help you, WANTS you to know His will infinitely more that you have ever desired to know it.

He is the Good Shepherd. Sheep follow the Shepherd. The sheep are not in control of the direction the Shepherd will take them. He is the One who is in control, not us. It's utterly relational, this knowing God's will for our lives. Jesus states plainly in John 15:7 that if we remain in Him (He has become Life, itself, within His disciples, His followers) and His Word remains in us (active feeding on the green pastures of His Word, written), our lives will become so transformed that we find our "wanter" transformed by the Holy Spirit's applying the Word of God to every dimension of who we are.

Jesus said that this intimacy, this feeding, this following, this trusting and surrendering everything to His guidance and Lord and Savior, will cause our yielding to Him to bear the fruit of asking His kingdom to come, to rule over all that we are and that His will would be done in us here on earth as it is done in heaven. 

The will of God is done in the power of the Holy Spirit, or it is not done at all. The purpose of God is fulfilled by the power of God alone. Salvation is of the Lord. That includes His will for us to live holy lives, in righteousness and peace. He wants us to not simply know His will, but to live that will. Having begun a good work in Hid followers, He has promised to bring that work to completion, fulfilled.

Determine in your heart that by the Holy Spirit's power you will do what the Lord asks of you, be it what we might consider "stupendous" or menial and every-day. Make the definitive and irrevocable decision to yield your life-details to Him. Say, "Yes, Lord." when He speaks to you from His Word by the Holy Spirit, for He WILL speak His Word and His will in you.

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