What Does God’s Will Include?

We as people of God must always remember that not everyone knows God. There are some people who have never been inside of a church or read a Bible. For those people, these seemingly basic questions have a different urgency. With all of the uncertainty in the world today many want to know what God’s will is for their lives and what does His will include?

God’s will is that we love the Lord our God with all of our hearts and with all of our souls and all of our minds. God’s will is also that we love our neighbors as ourselves. In other words, it’s God’s will that we empty ourselves in service to God and our fellow man.

Now, these two great commandments encompass many other things that are defined as God’s will and we want to look at those as well. God’s will for man is vast and although it would be hard to fit it all into this one post we do want to cover as much as God sees fit for this setting, let’s get started…

What Did Jesus Say About God’s Will?

Knowing the will of God is incredibly important to our daily Christian walk with God. In Romans 8:14 The Apostle Paul tells us, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God”. Being led by the Spirit Of God is the single best way to know in real time what the will of God is for your life at any given moment. Generally speaking, God’s will includes us obeying His word. God’s will includes us believing in His Son, the Lord Jesus. These are the very basic things we should do as Christians.

In the book of Matthew’s 5th chapter, Jesus begins this long dissertation more widely known as the “Sermon On The Mount”. He begins in the fifth chapter with the beatitudes and as He moves through the sixth chapter He begins to speak about worry and anxiety. In the seventh chapter as He begins to end His talk He leaves us with this warning in Matthew 7:21, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven“.

For those who may not know this, I want to tell you that it’s impossible to do God’s will without the leading of His Spirit and the knowledge of His Word. This is something that you will hear me repeat many times because it’s that important. Many people wonder why their prayers go unanswered and why they struggle with fear and sin. We’ve all heard people say, it doesn’t take all of that to be a Christian. As I’ve said before there’s a whole group of people that the devil has convinced that church attendance is enough to get into heaven.

God’s will consists of much more than church attendance. Service and submission to God require every part of our lives and being. You can’t pray or seek God too much. There’s no such thing as too much Bible reading or studying. This is what the devil want’s us to think. In Psalms 1:1-2 King David tells us this, “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law doth he meditates day and night”.

We have to stay before the Lord to know His will, diligently seeking God truly is the only way and this brings us to our next point.

How To Include God’s Will In Your Life

In my book, “Essential Peace”, I talk about what I would tell a new Christian, and I talked about the need for constant communication with God. Part of including God’s will in your life is having constant communication with Him. I talked about diligently seeking Him and in the book of Hebrews 11:6, this is exactly what we are told to do. Including God’s will in your life has to be a daily discipline because the devil will oppose you on every side. Anyone who’s tried to diligently seek Him knows what I mean. The devil doesn’t just through his hands up and let us win the battle.

Every effort to include God’s will in our lives must be performed with determination and grit. We are under constant attack in the spirit realm and this is what is meant in I Timothy 6:12 when the Apostle Paul says, “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses”. It indeed is a fight to believe God’s Word above the doubtful thoughts from the devil that constantly bombards our minds minute by minute every day.

Through regular Bible study, prayer, and meditation God will strengthen us and cause us to be able to overcome any attack that the devil launches against us.

When God’s Will Is Different From Your Will

There will be many times in life when our desires, goals, and ambitions will differ from the plan and will of God. Trust me, these times can be hard to reconcile, and come to terms with. The reason for this is that it’s not always easy to know or understand what the will of God is if we haven’t stayed before Him in prayer. In fact, if you find yourself in this situation it’s usually a clear sign that you’ve gotten away from God on some level. Remember, the goal is to stay so close to God in prayer and study that we can easily perceive His will at any given time.

Remember what Romans 8:14 teaches us, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God”. We are led by His Spirit by staying before Him in constant communication with Him. We must shut out all of the worldly noise. We must do as Hebrews 12:1 says, “let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us”. We must seek first the Kingdom Of God and its righteousness and let God worry about our needs and desires. My friends if we do this we will have no question as to what God wants us to do.

Amen, Well friends I pray these words were edifying to you and I want to invite you to download our free guide, “5 Ways To Fight Worry, Anxiousness, And Anxiety
With God’s Word”, I’m sure it will bless your soul. I want to thank you so much for studying with us and being here, we love you and we are praying with you that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is extended to you. Until next time we pray that your faith fails not.

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