Intro: One of the greatest things we can aspire to as Christians is to be in the middle of God’s will. I’m so glad that God isn’t trying to hide His will from us. Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your dailyeword. Sometimes we make knowing the will of God way harder than it has to be. God’s will is very clearly stated in His Word, and His Word says that we are His sheep and we know His voice, so we can know His will by living in His Word, and by letting Him speak to us in our “knower”, otherwise known as our spirit. Here is your dailyeword encouraging you to walk in His perfect will.
God wants us to know His will even more clearly than we do. When we look at the idea of knowing God’s will for our lives there are three things that hinder us.
1. We don’t ask what God’s will is.
2. We don’t listen when He speaks to us
3. We don’t trust that what He told us we can do.
The first thing we have to get in the habit of doing is asking God what He has for us to do. So often we try to make decisions just based on a pro and con list, or what feels right at the moment, or even based on someone else’s opinion. The person who has our best interest at heart, God our Father, is waiting for us to ask Him. We know that it says in James that we have not because we ask not. But sometimes we just get to busy, or we think we can handle it on our own. We should be askers! Don’t forget to ask. The second thing we must develop is having ears to hear. It is amazing how many times in the gospels Jesus himself said, if you have an ear to hear, HEAR! We have natural ears, but the Holy Spirit wants to speak to our spirit, so open your natural ears, and the ears of your heart. And then the third hindrance to walking in God’s will is that when we do know what God wants us to do, we have to choose to be obedient and just do what He asks. Step our in faith and be a doer. Don’t forget to ask, listen and trust!