The Will of God
Understanding and Living in God's Divine Purpose
This study explores what the Bible says about the will of God, how to discern it, and how to live a life that aligns with His perfect plan.
All Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Summary by Book
Proverbs
2Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.
Psalms
5I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.
Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Jeremiah
2For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Joshua
1Ezekiel
1Romans
11 Peter
11 Thessalonians
2For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
James
2If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
Matthew
2Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Luke
1John
5Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.”
And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever.
If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.
For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
Ephesians
2having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him.
Hebrews
11 John
1Colossians
1Thematic Index
Discerning God's Will
Doing God's Will
God's Will for Our Sanctification
God's Will for Our Thanksgiving
God's Sovereign Plan
Seeking and Finding God
God's Will and Eternal Life
Prayer and the Holy Spirit
All Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.