How can I finally know what God's will is for any area of my life: my career, my vocation,
job, ministry, marriage, where I should live and what decisions I could take? You know listening
and knowing God's will for a particular area of your life or a particular season of your life can
drastically, dramatically change your life. It's called the leading of the Holy Spirit.
How do we discern that? How do we know it's really God? How do we know and receive that?
So many changes happen personally in my life because the will of God was revealed,
known, faith was birthed and then I acted on that. It's not because I was smart. It's not because of
education. It's not because of my good looks. It's not because of my gifting or talents. It's
not because I'm an immigrant in the United States. You know English is like my third language. I'm a
disadvantage, humanly speaking. But I've seen changes in my life because of this one thing:
knowing God's will and doing God's will. The Bible clearly states that those who do the will of God
you know, are the ones that God favors. And if we say, "Lord, Lord." But we don't do His will
then He says, "Honestly, you're just a bunch of hypocrites." And so many people love to profess
their faith but they don't possess their faith because they don't live out God's will. But in
order to obey God's will, you have to know it. In order to know God's will you have to know God.
So I'm going to share with you five practical things that I do in my life, that I've seen,
sometimes one of these things causes me to know God's will specifically for this area,
this season of my life and changes come. The first one is you have to believe God has a good will
toward you. I know it's simple but so many people think God does not have anything good planned
for them. John 10 10 it says that:
I'm not talking about health, wealth prosperity gospel. I'm talking about just believing according
to Jeremiah 29:11 that God has good thoughts toward you, the thoughts of peace and not of evil,
to give you future and the hope. God is not out to kill you, hurt you, destroy you, you know control
you or anything of that. He loves you and He has a good will for you. He has a plan for your life.
For anything under the sun, there is a plan, there is a purpose. And if you are under the sun,
you have a purpose. You're not an accident. God planned your birth. Even if you came with certain
limitations, physical things that you do not like about your life or even deformities. You're
nevertheless still available to God. You carry His image and His likeness and God has a good will,
good attitude, disposition toward you. The second thing, is you have to surrender to the lordship
of Jesus Christ. In Book of Acts 9:6 when Apostle Paul met Jesus. I love the fact that Paul said
this, "Lord, what do you want me to do?" He called Him Lord. He didn't just call Him a friend like
Judas did. He didn't call Him just a Savior, he called Him Lord. And then the Lord said to him,
"Arise and go into the city and you will be told what you must do." Jesus doesn't even tell him
what to do. He just tells him to go to a place where he will learn what he needs to do. So Paul
is going to depend on the very Christians he's about to kill and destroy. But see because he's
submitted to the lordship of Jesus, he's willing to do whatever the Lord will tell him. Hebrews
10:7 it says, "Then I said, 'Behold, I have come-- In the volume of the book it is written of Me--
To do Your will, O God." So many people do not learn the will of God. God doesn't even
reveal His specific will because they have already this disposition, they have this position where,
if I don't like it, I won't do it. God don't tell me to do something that will cost me,
that will infringe on my liberties, my comfort and my complacency. You have to come with a blank
sheet of paper to God and say, "Lord, I am ready." I know this is scary. "Lord, I will do whatever
You ask of me." If you come with that and you die to your own will, you will be tested but you
will find on the other side, not only the will of God but your obedience to the will of God
and as a result you will be an unrecognizable person. Why? Because anybody who dies,
they cease to struggle with certain things and they come back, spiritually back to life,
into a newness of life. And that's only possible through the surrender. The third thing,
is you have to renew your mind for God to reveal His will. It says in Romans 12:1-2
that once we present our bodies, then we have to be transformed. We
don't be conformed and then be transformed by the renewing of your mind. In Ephesians 5:17 it says:
Now this is how that could work practically. As you're feeding yourself with God's Word,
sometimes you'll also listen to books or teachings on different topics. Your mind
begins to be renewed and you begin to get ideas of how you should spend your money, what you
should do with your free time, what you should do with this particular person or these particular
relationships. You know what, this is not right. You know what, I should be doing more of this,
less of this. The Holy Spirit plants thoughts and ideas as you feed your mind with His truth.
I remember the first time that I got the idea to give all of my money away. I know this was
radical. I wouldn't even entertain a thought like that before. You know how it came about? As I was
pursuing God, I listened to a few messages where some people radically took these steps
and a thought was planted. At first I thought it was of the devil. But as I meditated more and I
tried to reject it, it clung to me and as I looked into the Word of God I saw that actually, it's not
anti-biblical idea. It's actually part of discipleship, to be able to give radically,
generously and extravagantly. And it was not wise to my understanding,
but it was in line with God's Word and there was this, this thing where it made sense.
How did it make sense? Because the Word of God changed something in my mind where these ideas,
thoughts became possible. So as you renew your mind you become open to the will of God.
If you give God your mind, He will give you His will. Now number four, as you minister to the Lord
you open yourself to His will. In Book of Acts 13:2 it says:
In James 1:5 it says, "If anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who will give all
with liberality without reapproach, and it will be given to him." Now how does this happen? As
you wait in the presence of God, as you honor the Lord, as you minister to God in worship,
as you get filled with His presence, sometimes His ideas come. You're not looking for anything.
You're not coming there saying, "God, I really want to worship you so You can tell me what to
do." You're coming to worship Him, to honor Him, to be at His feet, to just digest the Word of God.
And God begins to plant in your mind ideas, thoughts. He begins to illuminate your mind,
give you understanding toward a particular decision that you are not even thinking about.
It comes as His gift, as His grace. As you minister to the Lord His will
becomes evident. That's exactly what happened to Paul. I mean Paul and Barnabas, they were doing a
lot of other things which were good. But there was this God calling that for which Paul was called,
that it wasn't activated until Paul fasted and prayed to minister to God. When was the last time
you went to prayer, not to just pray but to minister to the Lord. Especially those of you
who minister from the Lord, as you minister to the Lord, you will notice your ministry
from the Lord will drastically change. I can't tell you how many ideas, supernatural guidance,
a leading. How many ideas were shut down in the presence of God in my life
that were birthed in the flesh in the first place. I call them Ishmael ideas. You know,
things that I tried to do on my own power and strength and they only drained me emotionally,
mentally and even spiritually. And God would highlight and trim those things in prayer.
I wouldn't even consider shutting those things down or closing those opportunities because in my
mind there were God opportunities. But as you get into the presence of God your perspective changes,
as your perspective changes you begin to notice that's not where the Lord is moving.
I embarked on this path on my own strength. I opened this door but God was not in it.
I fell out of the rhythm of God's grace, and God will begin to pull you back. Sometimes God will
begin to propel you forward, and it's so beautiful because He's in charge of the speed, the direction
and the strength to maintain that, not you. The last one and that is, do what you know you should
do. In Philippians 3:15-16 it says: So to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk
by this same rule. Paul is pretty much saying, "I want you guys to begin to do what you already
know you should do." Sometimes the will of God is very obvious, we just don't want to do it,
and so it's the whole thing of the coming back to the lordship of Jesus. You know Paul,
excuse me. Prophet Samuel tells king Saul, he says, "When the Spirit of God comes upon you,
these signs come true." He says, "Do what the occasion demands. Do what you know you should
do. Don't second-guess yourself, don't doubt yourself. Now we're not talking about here
right now, decisions that are immoral, illegal or anti-biblical. We're talking about you know,
where there's a fork in the road and both decisions are scriptural and you're just not sure.
Do what the occasion demands. Do what you think you should do. Trust the Holy Spirit that He's
guiding your life and if you took the wrong turn He will also let you know about that.
You can discern God's will by the illumination of the Holy Spirit, this tug, this pull in your heart
and the confirmation of the circumstances and the counsel of others. I pray that God will guide your
life, lead your life. It's the most adventurous, most incredible Christian life that you can live.
It's not just going to heaven. It's being led by the Spirit of God, discerning God's will and
actually obeying God's will because again a lot of people know what they should do, they don't do it.
People fast and pray, "God reveal to me Your will." Now most of it is already revealed in the
Bible but there are specific things that God will give you insight into. And the key is to do it,
not just to learn about it. Thank you for watching this video. I hope this brought an encouragement,
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