If I do X..how will it affect this situation?
How will it affect this or that person?
what will become of this or that person?
how best would I be serving God..and Christ?
How will my behaviour be more pleasing to God?
what will I put first..my needs...my wants..my egos request for me myself and I, my so called freedom? or God and the Kingdom?
If someone says to you..my goal IS TO SERVE GOD AND THE KINGDOM..treasure that person
But how many say that and how many really mean it?
Its easy to appear kind and gentle..
but the true nature lies in ones goals..what do we make our goal in life?
Is it God and the Kingdom?..or is it the usual Goals of the secular world?
Quoting: wildhoney You want to Know God's Will?
You have to Know God...
You want to DO God's Will?
You have to surrender your will Unto HIM.
From Ezekiel 36:
26. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
If you were Born-Again, you would KNOW...
You guys were citing "By their fruits you shall know them". Jesus Witnesses this in Matthew ch 7. Yet right after verse 20, HE Says that many will knock upon the door and be turned away...
Consider this Witness: from 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.
22. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23. And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
If you were Born-Again, you would KNOW... You would KNOW HIM and The Father, you would Know God's Will, not be pondering it, you wouldn't think WWJD; you'd Know...
Understand that until God The Father Gives you "A New Heart Of Flesh" you remain one who works iniquity. Can't testify that you are Ezekiel 36 Born-Again? Then you aren't.
All your bullshit and conjecture means nothing.
Sorry, but you either can make your surrender or you remain in-self... Look at verse 21 up there. Doing Father's Will is what matters to Jesus...
"Who is MY brother or mother but he who doeth the Will Of My Father", Jesus also Witnesses,
Jesus IS The Way Unto The Father.
Being HIS Follower is not manifesting your heart Unto God.
Only by giving God control over your life can you Come Unto The Father.
Jesus Witnesses several times that HE Does Not Plainly inform people of God's Plan. It ain't about what you are mentally able to accept about God's Plan, it is about having Love Enough To Trust HIM Fully With Every Aspect Of Your Life and surrendering and submitting self Unto The Father. Doesn't matter what you think of God's Plan. Your heart either Knows & Trusts that Because HE IS God, everything Of-HIM and IN-HIM IS Perfection! God's Will IS Always Perfect! You Trust HIM because you can't trust yourself or anyone else; only HE IS Perfect!
Many Proclaim Love of Christ and claim to Know WHO HE IS, but few of these are willing to choose to give their lives Unto The Father... Many are called, but few are "chosen". It is you and your heart that must choose...
Can you choose to Trust God Fully and tell HIM so?
