Most of us have questions about God’s will for our lives. For those who are interested in knowing, how can a person discern what the will of God is? Join Pastor Jim for this practical and relevant study of how the early church came to understand God’s will in Acts 1:12-26.
Sermon Notes
If we desire to know God’s will:
1. We must be walking in trusting obedience.
“Hearing God makes sense only in the framework of living in the will of God.”
Dallas Willard
Hearing God
2. We must lean into the community of faith.
“The gospel pulls us into community. One of the immediate changes that the gospel makes is grammatical: we instead of I; our instead of my; us instead of me.”
Eugene Peterson
Reversed Thunder
3. We must earnestly seek God through prayer.
“When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking ‘God-and’ effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the ‘and’ lies our great woe. If we omit the ‘and’, we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.”
A. W. Tozer
The Pursuit of God
4. We must joyfully place ourselves under the authority of scripture.
“The (written) Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.”
F. B. Meyer
The Secret of Guidance