Whatever you know now is sufficient to take you to the next level where you can get to know more. So, you only need to make use of what you know to gain additional knowledge. Knowledge not utilized goes stale (goes bad).
Make use of what you have now to gain more. You already have the spirit of the All-Knowing Being inside of you, and you know all things–if you believe.
If you have just one idea/knowledge, that’s all you need. And if it is two or three or four or five talents is what you have, use it to gain more. This is what you need and this is God’s will for you– to increase all-round.
You know what He want so go ahead and do it. Stop asking any further questions. Use what you have—and gain more.
Strong desires to know God’s will does not necessarily mean that we really want to do His will. Sometimes, we just want to know what God’s opinion is in this instance. And we are a curious people too. However, you cannot cajole God.
Gideon was testing God with variations again and again. Moses did the same thing. Today, at least in the New Testament, this is called “doubt”, and God is not happy with this. Read James 1:6-7.
Does God care about what we do? Yes! But does He care about your day to day activities? Yes, but He gives you that control without reservation.
So, does God care about what you eat? yes, but go ahead and eat whatever you like that you think is good and bless it.
How about clothing? Go ahead put on decent clothing and nice materials. Shoes? Wear nice ones. When to wake up? When to take your bath? Where to go today? Should I make that call? Which bus to enter to work or market?
I say to you, go ahead and do whatever you desire to do and you will be doing what He really want you to do–His Will. The reason is because He made us free-will beings. How about tougher decisions like friends, changing job and getting married?
If God is your God, He will guide your heart to make the right decisions and whatever you decide to do will be what He really want you to do. But He as to really be your God to guide your heart. This is like saying that I have to really be the child of the President to be called the president’s Son.
As many as are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
Mistakes does not mean failure. It means that we have to try again. And thank God that we have a good, good father who helps us when we fail by raising us up again. Sweet God!
Don`t be scared to fall because when you fall, you will rise again. God will not abandon you in the valley.
It is not God’s will that we should continue doing the wrong thing again and again. But He does not really care about our mistakes because He knows we can and will make mistakes. He cares about our attitude to the mistakes we make.
So, when you fall–run to God like Peter when he wept after betraying Jesus, like David when he sinned against God and God had no choice but to call Him–a man after my own heart (Acts 13:22), and like You– because you are willing to obey this truth and live a different and a better life.
We are imperfect being living in an imperfect world who must receive corrections and instructions until we enter eternity. Therefore, when you fall, rise immediately–this is His will.
You can know the will of God by simply following others who have gone ahead of us. Such people have expertise in certain fields and can transfer such skills to others. They possess experience in certain fields and can help you make informed decisions.
Before you follow anyone or listen to anyone, prove them; test them and their life style. Do not just accept them without confirming for yourself.
If someone say one thing and you accept such person as your mentor or your leader or your counselor, this is not smart. Test every words you hear, test every person to be sure you are not led astray. This way, you confirm everything for yourself and you are confident in what you believe.
Moses (in the Bible) “transferred” his Spirit to others. Jesus breathe upon His disciples, and Paul asked the Corinthians to follow him. There will always be someone who knows a little better than you do-who has gone a step further than you and can give you guidance so that you do not miss it.
Find your spiritual guidance, leader, counselor, mentor and you will most likely find God’s will for your life through their directions.
One of the beautiful things about Easter is that it reminds us that we have Hope for tomorrow. I tell you, life can be really pathetic without Hope.
This life, this world has too much problems, too much fears, too much tears, too much chaos and too many adversaries all around everyday. Even in the midst of tears, the only reason I post this is because I know and have HOPE that tomorrow can and will be better.
Hope is the confidence that God is able to do what He promised.Hope is trusting the saving hands of the saving God. Hope is looking up to God when all is down.
Hope is the assurance that you will live to see tomorrow.
I tell you, life is meaningless and worthless when there is nothing to hope for.
The first time I heard about “there is more” was from Don Moen, I believe there is more, some years ago. Again, early this year, I heard it again from Hillsongs, Australia in there yet to be released album–there is more.
I believe there is more. The Christian life makes no sense at all without the resurrection. It is the resurrection that makes us have some courage, strength, encouragement and confidence in the ability of God to save even to the end.
It is useless to live a life without a purpose. The purpose of the cross would have been futile without the resurrection.
D Easter reminds us that there is more, and indeed there is more. Even if we cannot get everything in this life, there is Hope that we will get everything in the life after this present life. Hope.
God reveals a lot of things through His Word. All we need is to read and pray for understanding. Yet, God speaks to people today in a unique way.
God reveals idea to our thought. Whenever you exclaimed, “oh and I was thinking about that.”–it is God who is probably trying to tell you an idea but our finite mind is trying to grasp it.
Of what use is it to tell a toddler what is only useful for a teenager? If God perceives a message or idea or findings will be too much for our finite mind, He is most likely to hide it from us.
He would rather protect us than hurt us with what He is giving us. Therefore, if an idea is of no benefit to us, He will never make it known to us. Remember God told Daniel that he should write the message down because it is for an appointed time.
An idea or a message will not come before the appropriate time. This calls for patience when dealing with God. And don’t forget, everything in life takes time. It takes time for God to reveal things to us also because of our limited nature and we live in a limited world.
There are mysteries and there are revelations. Many of these God often show us. But there are so many things we have no understanding for. Things happen in life that we have no idea why they happen.
Sometimes, we wonder why people suffer? It is even more surprising when good people also suffer. Yes, a lot is happening that we cannot clarify.
For everything that we do not have answers for, we know that The All-knowing God knows it all and we can be rest assured He is in control of anything we cannot control.
So, for everything we do not know or have answers for, let us leave it in the Hand of the supreme being who knows it all.
Handing over to God what you cannot handle creates inner peace and rest of mind. “Hand over” means leave it and don’t worry anymore.
There are some clearly written God’s will and we know this already.
It is God’s will to give thanks. Jesus constantly gave thanks before doing anything. He gave thanks and then the two fishes and five loaves of bread multiplied.
It is God’s will to stay away from all sexual sin.
It is God’s will to stay and live healthy
It is God’s will to lack nothing.
Find and follow what is expressly written in God’s word, and you won’t make any mistakes.
It is not difficult to know the will of God for our lives as we think it is. The reason is because, sometimes, we already know His will but we often think we do not.
First, whatever you decide to do today–whatever choice(s) you make and steps you take, to some extent, are part of God’s will for your life. We just don’t know this.
In the next days, I will discuss a few topics in a series that explain knowing God’s will for our lives.
