144. WILL OF GOD
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He that doeth the will of God abideth for ever (1Jn.2:17b).
1. The best way to know God's will is to say "I will" to God.
2. There's only one will of God, and that's His best! But sometimes He'll let you get away with something that's less if that's all He can persuade you to do.
3. My concern is not whether God is on my side; my great concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
4. God doesn't let anything happen to you, a child of His who loves Him, except what is for your good.
5. If anything hinders or delays God's work, then it's not God's will.
6. Nothing ever happens by accident to one of God's children!
7. Be so sure of the will of God that you can't possibly be mistaken.
8. You can't find God's will by just sitting around doing nothing!
9. Nothing will ever satisfy or last if it's not the highest calling that God has called you to!
10. Like the old coloured lady said, "I don't know what unction am, but I shor knows when it ain't!"
11. God's plan is not going to be defeated!
12. The first requirement for finding God's will is: Having no will of your own!
13. I'm only interested in one thing and that's God's will, obeying the Lord and doing the job He's given us to do.
14. Oh what a beautiful morning!
Oh what a wonderful day!
I've got a glorious feeling
Everything's going God's way!
15. I'm so utterly convinced of the love and mercy and justice and longsuffering of God, that I know whatever happens is what ought to happen or what God allows to happen for a good reason!
16. God may still use you even if you miss the highest and best thing God wants you to do. He'll still use you for whatever He can use you for. It doesn't mean that everything you do is bad, but you just may have missed God's best.
17. Finding out what doesn't work is just as important as finding out what does work. You'll never find out what does work unless you find out what doesn't.
18. The Lord has to set us in place like a nail, hold onto us real tight for a little while to get us started while He hits us on the head with the hammer of His will to give us a shove in the right direction!
19. Nobody will ever be able to take my place, because my place is just for me!
20. Nobody can ever take your place unless you fail--then somebody can steal your crown.
21. If you're in God's will He is blessing you at least in some way--spiritually, materially or with public favour. If not, the trouble is either with you or your location.
22. The Lord is able to make you want to do what He wants you to.
23. The desire of your heart isn't always necessarily good for you, and what you think you need isn't always necessarily what you really need!
24. God help us to avoid sinking ships that we don't know how to run or that are running too fast or too hot or unsafely out of God's will.
25. Learn His will in order to let His light and power into the room of your life.
26. Without God's guidance, His gravitational pull on us in the spiritual world, we would get out of the well-planned orbit of His will.
27. The first place we look for the will of God is where?--The Word!
28. "Thou must flow with the current of My Will and where I lead, and avoid the rocks and the ledges and the protuberances and the roots that would ensnare and catch and stop, but thou must flow even as I have led David."
29. The Lord usually makes you like His will.
30. God's appointments are not disappointments!
31. Move with God! Don't run ahead of Him--but don't lag behind Him!
32. If God is not in it, it just won't work!
33. Conditions and open and shut doors are not always the final criteria or answer to the will of God, because He's able to open other doors at the last minute that we didn't expect to be opened and He's able to change conditions or our conditions to suit His will!
34. When your ears stop listening to the Lord, your house collapses on top of them!
35. God always wins what He begins!
36. Now with this new-born day
I give myself anew to Thee,
That as Thou willest I may live,
And what Thou willest be.
37. If God never tells you another thing, if you just work according to what you've already received, you'll get along great.
38. Sometimes you have to accept God's "No" in order to find His "Yes".
39. It's not a fleece unless you're willing to stick to your conditions!
40. A fleece is a two-sided proposition, like a contract between you and the Lord. You make God an offer in return for a sign!
41. You must stick to your bargain and your fleece, or it's not a fleece and you're a liar, you've broken your vow and you don't trust God!
42. You either keep your word and your vow when you make an offer and it's a fleece, or it's not a fleece! If you don't stick to it, then it's no fleece!
43. It's just as important for you to keep your part of the bargain and keep your word, as it is for God to keep His.
44. You'd better not make a vow unless you plan to keep it!
45. I wouldn't say that fleeces are always the very best sign of your own faith and belief in the Word of God or a sign of obedience. It just shows how hard it is for you to believe, how slow you are to obey.
46. God's will is absolutely infallible and unchangeable in the overall context. He has this tunnel of His overall will to confine us and restrict us to a certain area of movement and possibility from which we can't get out of line at all. But regarding individuals and individual situations, He leaves a lot of the choice in the tunnel of His will up to us and how far we go this way or that way, to this side or that side.
(See also No. 238, 302, 641, 679, 721, 727, 731, 829, 931, 953-3, 959, 960, 1268, 1392.)
47. NUM.22:18b I cannot go beyond the Word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.
48. JDG.6:36-40 And Gideon said unto God, If Thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as Thou hast said, Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that Thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as Thou hast said. And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. And Gideon said unto God, Let not Thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray Thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew. And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
49. 1SA.14:9,10 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them. But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the Lord hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a sign unto us.
50. PSA.40:8 I delight to do Thy will, O my God: yea, Thy law is within my heart.
51. PRO.11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
52. PRO.12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
53. PRO.15:19 The way of the slothful man is an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
54. PRO.15:22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counselors they are established.
55. ISA.30:21 And thine ear shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
56. JOH.7:17 If any man will do His will, He shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of Myself.
57. 1CO.7:24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
58. EPH.5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
(See also MAT.7:21-27.)
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