Knowing God’s Will
(My Notes on a video tape, by Minirth & Meier Home
Counseling) Dallas Christian Video – 74 minutes
12 steps to help you find God’s will in your life.
1- Be assured God will direct your path.
a. Ps 37:23.
b. Proverbs 3:5-6.
c. Ps 32:8.
2- God does reveal much of his will in
scripture.
a. 1 Thess. 4:13; 5:18
b. 1 Peter 2:15
c. Matt. 28:18-20
d. 1 Peter 1:15
e.
God’s moral will is very specific in scripture. Some exceptions can be cloudy.
f. Volitional will (our daily choices)
aren’t as easy to know.
i. Who to marry? Must be a Christian.
ii. What type of socks to wear?
3- Encourage yourself that Scripture Memory
helps.
a. Ps. 40:8
b. Jeremiah 17: 9
4- Realize the source of strength to do
God’s will is God himself get to know Him.
5- Realize that if the course of action
is inconsistence with God’s Word then you know that it is not God’s will.
a. Matt 5: It’s not God’s will
for us to have lustful thoughts.
b. Divorce is not God’s will except for 1
circumstance.
c. Choice of job—pimp, drug dealer, and
pornography dealer—not God’s will.
d. Sex outside of marriage is not God’s will.
e. Marrying an unbeliever is not God’s will.
6- Check out these questions:
a. Will it help me to love God and others more?
b. Will this help me to lead a more holy life?
c. Will this course of action help me to
increase my personal knowledge of Jesus?
d. Am I putting God’s desire ahead of my own?
e. How does this action relate to my
personal involvement in fulfilling Christ’s Great Commission?
f. Will this enslave me?
i. I Corinthians 6:12.
g. Is this the best, most logical,
effective, Godly thing to do?
h. Will this Glorify God?
i. I Corinthians 10:31.
i. Will this harm me physically or mentally?
i. I Corinthians 6:19,20.
7- Learn specifics that will help reveal
God’s Will.
i. Ps 119:130; Ps 37:31
b. The Daily quiet time. Ps. 143:8.
c. Prayer (ask for wisdom) James 1:5.
i. A.C.T.S.
1. Adoration
2. Confession
3. Thanksgiving
4. Supplication
d. Renew your mind – the Transformed
Mind. Romans 12:2.
e. Don’t forget the importance of the
Holy Spirit Hebrews. 16:13
i. He guides you into all truth.
i. Listen to several
ii. You
don’t necessarily have to do what they say.
g. Listen to circumstances. Philippians 1:12,13.
i. How did God turn them into victory for Himself?
ii. Things
will go bad in your life, even when you are in God’s will.
h. Wise thinking. Eph. 5:15-17.
i. Seek for inner-peace. Jonah 3:10-4:1
i. Jonah didn’t have inner-peace.
8- Learn to wait when appropriate. Ps.
27:14 Isaiah 30:18
a. God might say “yes”, “no”, or “wait”
9- Learn dangers to avoid.
a. Leaning on your feelings can be bad.
b. Use your logic, feelings, with God’s
word, counselors, etc.
c. Logic can be wrong. Worldly
logic isn’t necessarily God’s way of thinking.
d. Circumstances
e. Don’t necessary expect the dramatic.
i. Elijah
expected God to come in a great
wind, or fire, etc. He came in a small quiet voice.
10- Learn from men of scriptures.
i. Had to go against his relatives.
b. Moses Hebrews 11:25,26
c. Demas, on the negative
side II Timothy 4:10
11- Understand 3 ways that God leads.
i. Dramatic: Israel at the Red Sea.
ii. Non-dramatic: at times, too.
b. Interaction. You work, He works.
i. Gideon
ii. Christ working thru you.
i. He changed me; I grew in Christ.
ii. Door is closed.
iii. God does allow suffering.
12- Understand the dot theory verses
the circle theory.
a. The Dot theory says, “There is one specific will”.
i. With Abraham, God knew where Abraham would go.
ii. Isaac & Rebecca: specific wife for him.
b. The Circle theory says, “we can’t really know anything”.
i. II Corinthians 9:7
ii. I
Corinthians 7:39 in regards in marriage
iii. I Corinthians 7:19 pertains to
circumcision.
iv.
Many everyday decisions, we just really
don’t know. We have to use the above guidelines to make a good choice
c. They don’t necessarily negate each other.
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