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.
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.”
