The Will of God
Romans 12:2 mentions the four-fold
aspect of the will of God:
1. Good will of God
2. Pleasing will of God
3. Acceptable will of God
4. Perfect will of God
When you are in the good, pleasing,
acceptable and perfect will of God in your life concerning a matter, things
will go well for you in your life. You will be blessed tremendously, and even
beyond measure, and become prosperous in spirit, soul, health, relationships,
ministry and finances.
The good, pleasing, acceptable
and perfect will of God is His very best for you. He wants to give you the
best. He wants you to experience the best outcome in your life, marriage, family,
ministry, career and destiny.
You have to be in tune
with the Holy Spirit to listen to His still small voice speaking to you. He
will guide you into all truth, and will give you direction for your life. He
will help you to make the best and most wise decisions.
Wisdom will lead to your
life being like a tree of life and a fruitful garden that abounds with
blessings and good fruit. It will lead to a life of peace, rest, abundant life,
wealth and riches, long life, health, happiness, joy and satisfaction.
There is also the
“permissive” will of God. This involves issues that are neither right nor wrong
(gray issues), or even necessarily sinful issues. But they are issues that the
Lord does not care for, but He just puts up with it and is not happy about it.
He just tolerates it. He lets you make the choice, but it’s not His best will
for your life.
When you are in the
permissive will of God, you won’t be totally happy or at peace. Things won’t go
well for you like you anticipated. The road will be full of twists and turns,
and bumps and obstacles. There might be strife and turbulence in your life. Your
life will not go quite as well as you hoped it would.
There will be
disappointments and delays. Your life will feel dry and thirsty like a parched
desert, and you will wander around in a wilderness. You might miss coming into
your promised land when you are in the permissive will of God (unless you
choose to make a course correction and get back into the good, acceptable and
perfect will of God).
To experience the fullness
of God’s best plan for your life, seek out His will and Word concerning all the
key issues of your life, and seek His wisdom when making decisions, and
especially life-altering decisions (such as to who to marry, what friendships
and relationships to keep company with, ministry decisions, or whether or not
to relocate to a different geographical area).
You have to get to the
place in your life of putting Jesus first, and making Him the Lord of all the
secret kingdoms of your heart. Allow the Holy Spirit to produce good fruit in
your life by submitting to His will, His Word, His plans, and His ways of doing
things. Then things will go well in your life.
When you walk in the fear
(holy reverence) of the Lord, and obey His commandments, and abstain from sin
(such as sexual sin, porn, anger, pride, unforgiveness, hatred, prejudice, malice,
jealousy, abuse of any kind, ungodly movies, ungodly music, and all other
things that involve living according to the flesh rather than the Spirit), then
things will go well in your life and you will be blessed beyond what you could
ever hope for or imagine.
Seek the Lord and spend
time in His Presence daily, and worship Him, to step into His grace so that you
come into alignment with His perfect will and plan for your life. Trust in the
Lord that He has your best interest at heart. His plans for you are good, to
give you a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11).
God’s perfect plan for
your life is for you to experience righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy
Ghost (Romans 14:17). He wants your peace to be like a river, and for your joy
to be full and complete. He wants you to experience total shalom in your life (heaven
on earth, peace, joy, contentment, rest, satisfaction, love, every need met,
nothing missing or broken, prosperity in every area of your life, all the
wounded places of your soul to be healed, and life forevermore).
To come into the perfect
will of God for your life, it involves getting to know the Lord better and more
intimately (in spirit and soul), so that you trust Him completely. Spending
time every day in His Presence is the key thing. In His Presence is fullness of
joy, and at His right hand are pleasures forevermore (Psalms 16:11).
Spending time daily in His
Word will also transform your life. The Lord will take you from one plateau of
glory to another, by His Spirit.
Psalms 42:1-2 says, “As
the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul longs after You O Lord. My soul
thirsts for God, for the true and living God.”
Allow the Lord to be the
Potter and for you to be the submitted clay. Let Him have His way in your life,
and mold you and make you into a vessel of gold, a vessel of honor, fit for the
Master’s use.
As the old song goes,
“Have Thine own way Lord,
have Thine own way, Thou art the Potter and I am the clay. Mold me and make me
after Thy will, while I am waiting yielded and still.”
It is God's will that no one should perish (end up in hell), but that ALL should come to repentance.
For God so loved this world that He gave His only begotton Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God did not send His Son into this world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him would be saved.
The thief (Satan the devil) comes only for to kill, steal and destroy. But Jesus has come to give us life, and life more abundantly, until it overflows.
I urge you to come to the Cross today and receive Jesus as your Savior and Lord. He will wash away all your sins and make you as clean and white as fresh snow.
Just pray this prayer and mean it with your heart:
Dear Lord Jesus (if you are not able to call him Lord yet, then just say "Jesus")
I receive You as my Savior and Lord. I give my life over to You. I believe that You died and rose again, and that if I call on the Name of the Lord I shall be saved.
I accept you into my heart right now, and confess that You are Lord and have risen from the dead and forever live to make intercession for me.
Thank You for washing my heart pure and clean and making me whole, and for giving me peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Thank You that now I am a new creature in Christ Jesus. The old has gone and the new has come.
And there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh (carnality and sin), but walk after the Spirit. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
If you prayed this prayer, I believe you got born again and are now heaven bound and will be with the Lord forever and have eternal life. Your sins are now forgiven. You are accepted in the Beloved.
I would encourage you to find a good Bible based local church to help you grow in your faith, to learn the Word of God, to praise and worship Him, and to have fellowship with the saints.
Serving Christ is the best decision you will ever make.
God bless you!!!
